r/politics • u/Effective_Salad_8381 • 21h ago

Soft Paywall JD Vance Mocked for Embarrassing WWII History Mistake

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-mocked-for-embarrassing-wwii-history-mistake/
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u/JessieJ577 20h ago

WWI was just a list of forced demands and WWII was basically what began the Cold War. These negotiations sucked.

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u/ExZowieAgent Texas 20h ago

I always called WWII, World War One, Part Two.

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u/fiction8 17h ago

The Cold War was nigh guaranteed to happen as far back as 1920 when the Red Army lost the Battle of Warsaw. And it's only that particular event because before that it was a hot war for the Bolsheviks against capitalism.

The main contribution of WW2 to the Cold War was to dramatically shift the economic power of the world towards the US, since everywhere else was in ruins. That and the bomb.

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u/JessieJ577 15h ago

That’s pretty much what I was referring to. That and the US being more scared about communism after the Soviet Union was able to spread influence and Germany was split in half for Western and communist influence. It ramped things up.