America Wins the War: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]''. "The City On The Edge Of Forever". Due to pacifist movement USA did not enter WW II, and Hitler won precisely because of it, causing humanity to be enslaved and never reaching the stars.

* [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in the [[Ken Burns]] documentary, ''[[The War]]'', as its format was specifically created to show, compare, and contrast WWII's impacts on 4 American towns and people from them. Since obviously few if any people from those towns would have been with the British, Russian or any other military, by default it focuses on the American parts of the war (although the British and Russians do get the occasional narrator-said nod).

* For a long, long, time, the definitive TV-documentary history of [[WW 2]] was the British-made ''The World At War'', which condensed [[WW 2]] into twenty-six hours of TV narrative. Scrupulous care was taken to make this as objective as possible, to allow the American and Russsian involvements to be related accurately and in context. The last thing the makers wanted was half a year of British triumphalism. American TV has since commissioned its own version of TWAW. And whaddya know, the British and Russian aspects have been pared back to invisibility, as second-rate allies of a triumphant world-leading USA...

* Whenever the French were mentioned in front of [[Everybody Loves Raymond|Raymond's dad]], his automatic response was "Pulled their ass out of two world wars!"

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