Originally posted by sasguru
We may well have received money from America under the Marshall plan.
However, America stood on the sidelines for several years while we evacuated our troops from Northern Europe and then tried our best to stand up to Germany, including attacks on the shipping lines by Germany in an attempt to starve us. We were helped by America only is so much as we could buy goods from them. And in order to get the capital we sold substantial amounts of overseas investments, in areas such as South America. So in practice America did rather well out of the war, at least until late 1941 when it entered the war. And the stimulation to the economy ro build the armaments required by American and other forces can't have harmed the US. Our economy was near bankrupt by the end.
As others have said, once Germany declared war on America, the game was up, with fighting on two fronts being too much to withstand.
It does seem odd that Hitler was able to conquer so much of Europe, which he could presumably have held, and yet he went on to declare war on Russia and America, which surely he should have realised was unrealistic.
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