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A form of Hollywood History in which a story implies or outright states that the United States single-handedly won World War II. Sometimes, it's unintentional; the viewpoint or focus is simply too narrow for the audience to be reminded of the bigger picture. Other times, though, it's a blatant example of Hollywood History. When this trope is in play the efforts and contributions of the other Allies are downplayed. Egregiously, the Soviet-German war is considered a sideshow - if it's even mentioned at all. Approximately 80% of the deployable German Army was engaged against the Soviets on three/four Fronts in 1941-1942, dropping down to "merely" 60% in 1943-1945 when the partisan war (in the occupied USSR, Balkans, and elsewhere) intensified and Americans and Commonwealth forces opened up three new fronts in Italy, Western Europe, and over Germany, making the Eastern Front by far the largest land combat theater of the war. The Germans lost about 75% of their total dead and wounded there, with about 1 million dead in France+Italy+Benelux+West Germany vs 4 million dead in the USSR+Poland+Romania+East Germany (and a couple hundred thousand dead in every other area). On the other hand, prisoner numbers before the final collapse of German forces in April 1945 (before which the Germans were still resisting as hard as they could) and surrender upon the 7th of May were more balanced owing to the massive encirclements (most famously during Operation Overlord, but also at the Ruhr Pocket, in Operation Dragoon, and elsewhere) made by the Americans and Commonwealth forces in France, with the Western Allies taking 1.3 million soldiers prisoner in France/Benelux, 0.85 million in Italy, and 0.15 million in North Africa (total 2.3 million troops) before April 1945 and the Soviets only taking about 2 million in the East. Thus, the number of irrecoverable losses, not counting April/May surrenders, were 3.3 million against the American-led Western Allies (1 million killed, 2.3 million captured) and 5.9 million against the Soviets (4 million dead, 1.9 million captured). Thereafter the numbers were swelled by the last combat troops and the bulk of the Army logistics troops, policemen, paramilitaries, Volkssturm, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine personnel (many of whom fled West) surrendering en masse in most of April, for final prisoner totals of 5.2 million versus 3.1 million before the formal surrender, and final irrecoverable losses of 6.2 million against the Western Allies (1 million killed, 5.2 million captured) and 7.1 million against the USSR and Poland (4 million killed, 3.1 million captured). And while the Soviet Union caused the most casualties the main way did so by callously throwing their own soldiers' lives away in human wave attacks to overrun German positions by sheer force of numbers alone. And the Soviet Union would often summarily execute German soldiers who surrendered, which led to the similar POW numbers. Often it is portrayed as if the only other Allied nation-state that actually did anything to fight Germany was the UK, which (after the Poles and French were conquered ) kept the hopeless fight alive until the USA joined in and saved the day. The non-European Allies have it even worse. When was the last time you saw an American film about the Sino-Japanese War, or Filipino guerrillas note who in some ways have the underrepresentation even worse, since during this war they were part of the U.S. colonial empire, and thus, technically, Americans by extension? All these oversights are at least partly a result of the Cold War making American educators and filmmakers cautious to glorify the Soviet Union or China (especially Maoist China), since this kind of stuff was virtually illegal in the United States lest one be put on the Hollywood blacklist. Producers and directors even got in trouble for making films that portrayed the Soviet and Chinese communists favorably as part of the war effort later during the anti-communist fervor. In particularly nasty cases, films based on actual WWII events will be warped to make the most prominent characters into US soldiers— perhaps most infamously, in the film U571. It will occasionally even be said that WWII only began on December 7, 1941, when the United States entered the war. Other factually wrong but more playful revisionisms are for example the Americans killing Hitler in Inglourious Basterds. The D-Day landings are another good examplenote Out of five divisions present, two were American, two British, and one Canadian. Many American-made productions will focus solely on Omaha Beach, the most heavily fortified of the five landing sites as well as the best-defended—both facts which Allied intelligence failed to realize prior to the operation. The carnage that ensued is a favourite among producers, since it emphasizes the sacrifice Americans made during the war—but doing so gives the impression that Omaha Beach was the decisive turning point that led to the Allied victory in Europe, rather than the dual blows by the their allies at Stalingrad and El Alamein a two years earlier and followed up at Kursk.note Hardly anyone in the West knows about Operation Bagration, the Red Army's summer offensive in 1944 that was loosely timed to coincide with Allied landings in the West and their breakthrough in Italy. By the autumn of 1944, the Russians had completely annihilated a whole German Army corps and thrown the germans almost completely out of the USSR, and were well inside Poland, Romania and northern Yugoslavia. The focus on Omaha Beach is also partially because Saving Private Ryan did it, other games/movies/TV shows want to replicate its success, and because it's more exciting to show a strongly opposed landing than an unopposed one — not that the other landings were exactly unopposed (for instance, Canadian troops landing at Juno Beach on that day faced opposition almost as formidable, with a full-blown tank battle raging right on the beach, but punched through quickly and made the best progress of any Allied force towards their objectives on that Longest Day in spite of itnote Due to better small-unit communication and leadership, something the military training of smaller nation-states tends to emphasize given their lesser material resources. Not to mention that the Canadians accepted Britain's "Hobart's Funnies" line of specialized-function tanks to give the landing troops armor support.), but still. Cases of this trope are not limited to the European Theater. Most films featuring the Far East theatre only focus on the naval and air battles fought by the U.S. in the Pacific, appearing as though they were the sole force fighting in the Asia-Pacific. In reality Chinese, British, Indian, Australian, and Soviet forces played significant roles against overwhelming forces in atrocious conditions, particularly in the land campaign against the IJA, and many other countries contributed as well. Indeed, the brutally violent war in China is probably the most ignored battlefront of the war (except, of course, by Chinese media, which has its own problems). This neglect is strange given that it was the longest conflict (starting in 1937) of World War II and believed to be the second-bloodiest theater of war in human history after the Eastern European theater. It may not be a strictly American trope. The British may exaggerate their role in the war as well, with an additional jab that the Americans were not only late to the party but also stole all the credit, and additionally only joined in when they knew who was going to win (technically true as the Americans knew the allies would win if America joined them in the war). Though the US joined the war in Europe after the European armies had been defeated and were being mopped up in many places by the Axis Powers. Russia also gets this to an extent (despite doing most of the fighting); there, you'll find claims that WWII lasted from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945 — when this was actually just the duration of the war between the USSR and Germany.note More specifically, in a classic Russian history course, it is mentioned that the war was fought elsewhere for quite some time, but only the Great Patriotic War is studied in detail - which still gives this impression. Russian history also omits their own war of aggression against Finland, and doesn't mention the fact that between 1939-41, the USSR and Germany were actually allies under the terms of the Molotov Pact. Which, ironically, sells the Soviet Union short, because their successful campaigns against Japan in 1939 and late 1945 aren't included in that time frame. Even the specific belief that America was the most important nation in defeating Germany isn't a purely American trope- polling has showed most Western and Northern Europeans countries (including Germany itself) think that the USA did the most to defeat Germany in the Second World War, with the notable exception of the UK itself, whose people of course believes it did the most, to every other polled country's disagreement (except Norway). Likely because of this trope; American movies and shows dominate the global entertainment market, and of course American filmmakers usually prefer to make movies about American soldiers and battles. Some see this general 'limited scope' thing as extending to the "official" date of the war's beginning, September 1st, 1939, the date of Germany's invasion of Poland. Most, however, accept that the moniker of 'World War' denotes merely the geography of a war (the British Empire alone spanned three continents at the time), rather than implying the conflict wasn't 'serious' or something (the Japan of the time, and many Japanese ultranationalists since, call it 'The China Incident'). Though bloody and horrific in its own right,note With war-dead to the tune of at least 10 and as many as 20 million (the Chinese Civil War that followed has to account for another 10 million or so, as well as an impressive gamut of war-crimes like mass-rape (e.g. Nanjing) and live-human-experimentation the war that Chiang Kai-Shek's Guomindang waged against Imperial Japan wasn't part of the 'World War' until the Imperial Navy lashed out to take Malaya and the Philippines.note Surprisingly, it wasn't until then that the Republic of China got around to formally declaring war on Japan, which further complicates the matter of when World War II started. None of this is meant to diminish the contribution that single country made to winning World War II, of course. The Soviet Union may have constituted the lead presence on the Northern, Central/Belarussian, and Southern/Ukrainian/Caucasus Fronts and suffered 26 million casualties (including 11 million dead in combat or of wounds but not including 3.3 million POW dead in German captivity) but the Chinese Nationalists fought on at least three Fronts and suffered at least 6 million casualties (including at least 3 million dead), the USA fought on at least two Fronts at all times and suffered 0.9 million casualties (including 407,000 dead) and the British fought the entire war on at least one Front (and a significant chunk on a second Front, in the Pacific) and suffered 0.9 million casualties as well (including 443,000 dead). In casual conversation Stalin opined that without American food, radios, rare materials, and the fourth Front it was conceivable that the Soviets might actually have lost! Khrushchev agreed in his memoirs, if only to exaggerate the extent to which Stalin's decisions imperiled the country's survival. note (K. Krushchev, "Memoirs of Nikita Krushchev", p. 639): "Stalin remarked on several occasions that 'if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war'. I will state here that several times in private conversations with me he noted these were the actual circumstances. When I listed to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so" None of the anti-Axis powers won the war all by their lonesome; everyone had their part, and the USA's was certainly highly significant and among the top two efforts most significant to the eventual outcome of the war in Europe,note On the 1944-1945 Western Front, by far the largest non-Soviet land front, over 2/3 of the Allied soldiers involved were Americans, as were 3/4 of the combat casualties, and even the non-American troops like the British depended heavily on America equipment (the most common British tank was the M4 Medium, AKA "Sherman"). and without a doubt number one in the Pacific.note The disparity between the USA's contribution and everyone else's in that theater is such that, according to the Japanese Ministry of Health and Warfare's figures, more Japanese troops died in the Philippines than died in the entire Second-Sino Japanese War. And that's not even getting into them basically soloing the IJN, the branch that took up most of Japan's military budget. Another point: As the defining example (so far) of modern, mechanized, industrialized warfare between peer powers, World War II was won and lost on the margins. The Americans, British, Chinese, French, and Russians may have collectively been the heavy lifters of the conflict, but every extra man, gun, vehicle, bullet, and bean mattered in the long run, even those from the so-called "lesser powers." A hundred infantrymen and a few extra crates of rations may not sound like a lot in the broader picture of a war where millions died, but on the operational scale, having those extra guns and calories in the right place at the right time could mean the difference between victory and defeat, and every little extra bit of pressure the Allies could put on the Axis made the war (and the suffering of millions under it) that much shorter. Lastly, winning a war means nothing unless one also "wins the peace," as was the case in Vienna in 1815 and infamously not at Versailles in 1918. In the aftermath of World War II, the USA and Britain and the USSR all deserve recognition for demarking and respecting crystal-clear 'spheres of influence' that kept the peace despite the outbreak of the Yugoslavian, Greek, and Chinese civil wars. When the CCP gained the upper hand in the Chinese Civil War, and the USA began to see the USSR as a threat, the USA also began to funnel a great deal of money into reconstructing Western European economiesnote Britain got a lot less than France or Germany, as conservative American opinion was appalled that they had the temerity to elect a socialist government; Britain were still repaying US loans, written off for other countries, well into the 1980s. This, perhaps not surprisingly, didn't exactly help endear Americans to the British, especially with regards to this trope. so that they could sustain larger militaries and thus avoid the need for committing US troops to Western Europe in its defense. On the other hand, certain other nations were given the short stick. Poland for example was handed over to the Russians who had attacked it along with Hitler in 1939 (though they did remain a separate if not wholly independent country) and received far less aid than Germany. The membership of the USSR and USA in the United Nations also gave it a lot more clout than its predecessor the League of Nations. On the flip side, this trope might be known as "Nazis Fight Alone." In media about the European Theater, only German soldiers will serve as the antagonists.* And when non-German Axis forces are shown, it's likely they're still using German weapons anyway. A possible but still very rare exception would be North Africa, where the Italians made up the majority of the troops fighting there. Hungarians, Slovaks, Romanians, Bulgarians, Finns, and the various foreign units of the SS are almost entirely absent, despite their sizable presence on the Eastern Front, making up 40% of Axis personnel in the east in 1942. A variation (admittedly somewhat closer to the truth) is to have units from various countries under German command but only depict Germans proper as real threats while others as laughably ineffectual comic relief. Other countries do this as well, be it the U.K. not teaching about lend-lease at all in history, or it being Serious Business in Russia that only they won the war (to the point where 2 + Torture = 5 has been reported from their secret police telling people that WWII started in 1941.) However, there is a grain of truth to this trope, as almost all the the Soviet Union's heavy industry was located in the area Germany invaded. The Soviets had to relocate all their factories east, which left a massive gap in their production. Without American Lend-Lease aid, the Soviets would not have been able to hold back the Germans long enough to get their own production back online. See also America Saves the Day, of which this is a sub-trope, and Hollywood History, of which that is a sub-trope. Note: This trope specifically deals with World War II. It does not apply to any other war, particularly modern conflicts. Examples |
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Hark! A Vagrant mentions this trend in war movies here. | |
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Company of Heroes plays it straight in the first game. The main campaign for the game follows the US Army from D-Day onwards. The expansion campaign Opposing Fronts has one campaign as the German Army as they steamroll the British airborne during Operation Market Garden. The sequel is on the Eastern Front for the first time, following the Russians during the Stalingrad campaign. |
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Operation Darkness mixes this trope up a bit, by instead using Britain Wins The War. Both the plot of the game and its brief historical asides emphasize the British contribution to the war effort in the same way this trope does for the US. The funny thing? It's a Japanese game. | |
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Hitler's Madman: Karel helpfully tells the townsfolk that millions of men "in England and America" are joining up to fight Hitler. That business on the Eastern Front was no big deal, apparently. | |
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In Star Trek: Enterprise there is an alternate timeline where Lenin was assassinated, so quite naturally Germany didn't much bother with Russia and instead invaded the United States. | |
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The Simpsons: Parodied indirectly in "Lisa's Wedding"; in an episode set 20 Minutes into the Future, Moe tells Lisa's British fiancé that "We saved your ass in World War II." The fiancé replies "Well, we saved your [America's] arse in World War III", and Moe concedes the point. "Bart-Mangled Banner", which is mainly a Take That! episode aimed at misguided patriotism, plays with it. The Simpsons are rescued from the sea by a boat captained by a xenophobic Frenchman, who acknowledges his unjustified hatred of the Americans by admitting they were the (not a, the) country which saved France from the Germans - twice. In "The Regina Monologues" Homer, as usual, handles this in his usual way when visiting London: This last day of the school year exchange in "Kamp Krusty": |
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"We cannot win it (the war) without the Americans!" Says Churchill in Into the Storm (2009) (the Churchill biopic). Despite this, the movie actually subverts this: the Americans are shown as worthy allies, but the British (and to a lesser extent the Russians) are shown as just as responsible, if not more so, for the ultimate victory. And in fairness, Churchill put a lot of effort into encouraging the United States into joining the war for exactly this reason. | |
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Horrible Histories, being a British Edutainment series, reminds us constantly that the "Britain wins the war" variant (often taught to British children) is just as untrue as the American version. For instance, the RAF Pilots introduce us to their Eastern European members and go out of their way to mention that "some of our bravest men were Polish and Czech", and a sketch taking place in a trench in World War I features a British soldier trying to find the British unit he's assigned to, but instead meeting French-Canadian, Australian, and South African soldiers (with extremely silly accents) fighting as part of the British Army. | |
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In the Justice League story "The Savage Time", the immortal supervillain, Vandal Savage, manages to send a laptop full of technical information for superweapons to himself during World War II. There's also a video recording message telling himself what to do with the info, such as usurp Hitler and a specific warning to ready the Third Reich for a massive US/UK/Canada seaborne invasion of Normandy on June 6th, 1944. While the success of Operation Overlord in 1944 was definitely very bad news for Germany, why no mention of the Soviet Union's offensive at the same time in the East? | |
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The Rat Patrol was licensed in the UK but taken off air due to the volume of complaints received about its exaggeration of the American involvement in what had been primarily a UK and Commonwealth theatre. | |
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The Pacific: In real life, the show earned some minor controversy in Australia after the TV station that aired the show advertised it as the 'fight for Australia', despite Australia doing well enough on its own against the Japanese Army. In the show itself, J.P. Morgan causes a fight with some Australia troops by disrespecting the Australians (who weren't particularly respectful themselves) and claiming that the USA was saving them from having 'chopsticks up their ass'. Both sides actually had a point, as the Australians had stopped the Japanese cold in the hellish Kokoda Trail campaign in the Owen Stanley Mountains of New Guinea. Guadalcanal was a Japanese attempt to bypass the AIF in New Guinea and cut off Australia from the USA, with conditions every bit as nightmarish, and with the ground combat being an entirely American endeavor. |
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Spoofed in a 2006 The Daily Show. Jon Stewart comments that the Iraq War has "gone on longer than WW2"; Englishman John Oliver corrects him that WW2 was going on for 2 years longer than the US involvement. Though Stewart wasn't correct until 2009, John Oliver wasn't historically correct either if the Sino-Japanese angle, considered a separate war in European countries, is factored in (which would place the start at July 1937). | |
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In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Fresno entrepreneur J. Russell Finch invokes this while arguing with British Army officer Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne. It proves to be something of a Berserk Button for the latter. | |
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Parodied in Scandinavia and the World, where America believes that he single-handedly saved all of the other countries during World War II, despite the fact that he didn't even know what was going on. | |
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This is continued in Wolfenstein: The New Order, where while all-American Badass B.J. gets the most done, he wouldn't be nearly as effective if he didn't have the help of the same resistance movement, still primarily made up of Germans, to make sure he's in the right place to do his thing. Not to mention that the game is more or less a direct inversion, with America - and for that matter, everyone who isn't Germany, even their (former) allies - losing the war. | |
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Everybody Loves Raymond: Whenever the French were mentioned in front of Raymond's dad, his automatic response was "Pulled their ass out of two world wars!" Which was deeply ironic, coming from an Italian-American. | |
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The 2011 Captain America: The First Avenger movie, of all places, makes it a point of him having a Multinational Team backing him up, and that the program that helped give him his powers was a joint Anglo-American operation. However, you won't find any mention of the Soviet Union save amidst the sea of flags in the end credits. | |
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Sgt. Rock and his 1960s spin-off series The Losers had one small team of US commandos pretty much holding up the Allied war effort. | |
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Explored in the episodes of Foyle's War which focus on the American entry into the war; whilst the American soldiers who appear are treated largely sympathetically, there's a certain amount of realistic tension between them and the British characters, many of whom take the attitude that they took their time to get involved and now seem to be taking over everything since they got here - and the American 'we're here to save the day' attitude doesn't entirely help matters or endear them. | |
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Parodied in A Fish Called Wanda when Otto tells his English guests, "If it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking German!" | |
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Generally, Band of Brothers averts this trope. For instance, the epilogue to the Operation Market Garden episode points out that the British suffered far worse casualties at Arnhem than the 101st. Similarly, the British tank support does cover Easy's retreat in that episode, and the only reason the British tanks do badly is because their orders force them to "avoid unnecessary destruction of property" which would have allowed them to ambush the German tanks, rather than be ambushed. | |
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In the Dad's Army episode "My British Buddy", the Walmington Home Guard are infuriated by the arrival of American troops whose attitude is that they're going to succeed where the British have failed. Matters aren't helped by the fact that the first thing the American soldiers do when they get there is try and steal the British soldiers' girlfriends, and then act very entitled and hard-done-by when they find they can't get a good drink. It all ends in a fistfight. Warden Hodges' comments didn't help the situation any either - mockingly saying that the US had joined the war quickly this time, "Two and a half years instead of three!" |
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This trope is blatantly invoked in Iron Sky, when the President of the U.S. defends her nation's claim to the Helium-3 deposits on the moon by saying that America won World War II and saved the world (albeit with tiny contributions here and there by her allies)... She even goes so far as to base this historic "fact" on Hollywood war movies which "never lie". Played for Laughs, of course. | |
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Patton averts this, despite focusing on one of America's most famous generals. His rivalry with Montgomery is prominently featured, with British troops getting plenty of screentime, and there are frequent mentions of the Eastern Front. Patton, in fact, gets reprimanded at one point when he fails to acknowledge Russia's accomplishments while speaking in front of reporters. | |
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In The Man in the High Castle and its TV adapatation, Germany and Japan won World War II because the United States never entered the war. It is very much possible that the Axis would have won in this circumstance, but the idea that they would flatten the other Allies as depicted in the novel seems unlikely. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series. "The City on the Edge of Forever". Due to a pacifist movement, the USA did not enter WWII, and Hitler won precisely because of it, causing humanity to be enslaved and never reaching the stars. | |
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The Boys: Invoked as part of Frenchie's back story. An American on holiday in France draws ire when he claims the US liberated France single-handedly, going so far as to call the French cowards. Frenchie is enraged and delivers a curb-stomping to the American, who can't even name the divisions and commanders of the real American soldiers but is content to live in reflected glory of their sacrifices. Later still, a Nazi super is stopped in a gigantic Faux Symbolism beatdown continuously narrated and lampshaded by Billy (Brit), who along with Mother's Milk (American) and the Frenchman (... French) beat the crap out of Stormfront until Vas (very, very big Russian) shows up and deals the killing blow. |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: Set in WWII. America's plan to defeat Germany? All the other Allies support him while he wins the war. "I'm the Hero!" Hetalia lampshades, but mostly averts this trope. China, England, France, Russia and America are all members of the Allies, and spend more time discussing with each other than actually fighting the Axis. Canada also appears - well, sometimes. On the side of the Axis, we see not only Germany, but also Italy and Japan, even though Germany trains them and Italy is not so helpful in battle. Bulgaria also makes a brief appearance, and so does Prussia. The only fight that is actually shown is China beating up Japan and Germany with a wok. Might be a reason why Hetalia is not banned in China. |
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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory allows you to play as one of two sides: one is Nazi Germany, guess who the other is? Considering you know how the war turns out the implication is a given. In this specific case, however, it's probably less an intentional use of this trope, and more paralleling the singleplayer games. | |
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Subverted in Worldwar: War of Equals. America's military is considered the biggest threat to Race domination of Earth and they provide assistance to Mexico, Iraq, and Australia. However, many operations in the American homeland succeed with the help of Canadian forces and they help fight The Race's advance in the north west United States. | |
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A Saturday Night Live sketch featured an uptight and Ambiguously Gay British host getting into a snit with Mickey Rooney, played by Dana Carvey. As they traded barbs, Mickey sneered at the host: "All I know is we hauled your butt out of two world wars!" | |
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U571, which Americanized the story of the British capture of U-110 and her all-important Enigma machine. In real life, most of the captured machines were acquired by the British and the original breaking of the code was done by the Polish (the first captured Enigma being literally found at the Warsaw Post Office in a parcel addressed to the German Embassy). U-571 herself was never captured. When the film was released in the UK it had to have a disclaimer added at the start stating that it was in no way based on real events. Ironically, the filmmakers could have avoided all this by basing the movie on the U.S. Navy's even more dramatic capture of U-505, making this film a trifecta of America Won World War II, Artistic License – History and Artistic License – Ships. | |
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In the Italian-American production Under Ten Flags, the spy who steals the German naval code that enables the Admiralty to sink the German commerce raider Atlantis is an American army officer, despite the fact that the United States had not entered the war at this stage. A fact shown in the scene where Atlantis disguises itself as a Japanese vessel because Japan was a neutral country at the time! | |
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Saving Private Ryan was criticized for this in the UK, since the sole reference in the movie to any non-American involvement in the battle was a brief exchange on how "overrated" General Montgomery was. Of course, like its successor, Band of Brothers, the narrative maintains a narrow focus on a small unit, which very well might not have encountered any Allied soldiers from other nations. | |
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The (People's Republic of) Chinese equivalent appears in Ip Man, which is set during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The concluding captions mention China's defeat of Japan without mentioning the Guomindang or the international Allied forces that had pushed Imperial Japan back and blockaded the Home Islands in preparation for an amphibious invasion. In reality, the Guomindang and their warlord allies acted as a huge punching bag, losing battle after battle until the United States, Britain, and later the Soviet Union entered the conflict. The importance of US Lend-lease - which was critical to propping the Guomindang with things like massive loans and anti-tank weaponry - also goes unmentioned, naturally. The film also outright lies to the audience when it mentions that Master Ip flees to Hong Kong during the war to avoid the Japanese. This is wrong in three accounts: first, Hong Kong was also occupied by the Japanese during the war, so there was no logical reason for Ip Man to move; second, he moved during the 1950s, not the 1940s; and third, the real Ip Man was a member of the Guomindang, and he fled to Hong Kong to escape the communists, which made sense since Hong Kong was still a British territory at the time and the CCP would have probably executed him if he remained in the mainland. | |
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In Epic Rap Battles of History: In the season 2 finale, Josef Stalin takes credit for having "bitch-slapped Hitler." In the penultimate episode of season 5, Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt both argue over whose country deserves more credit for World War II. |
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The 2009 Wolfenstein can be said to subvert this. While you are still American One-Man Army B.J. Blazkowicz, the assistance of the German resistance is necessary and invaluable to your success, which also nicely averts the common All Germans Are Nazis trope that appears so often in Nazi-based FPSs. | |
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Given a head nod in The Punisher: Civil War (2006), when Frank is having a tense disagreement over tactics with Captain America. | |
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The British attitude towards this trope is shown (i.e. mockery) in Doctor Who, "The Day of The Doctor" - the justification UNIT gives for keeping Jack's time machine locked away from the Americans is, "Americans with the ability to change history? You've seen their movies." | |
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Played straight, however, in Medal of Honor: Airborne, where each mission ends with a debriefing voice-over from the commanding officer. After a relatively minor skirmish in Italy in early 1943, he proclaims "the war has begun", and after a very over-the-top raid on a flak tower in early 1945 he says that the war is over and effectively gives the Airborne itself full credit in his speech. The British are mentioned in passing in one mission, Operation Market Garden - fascinatingly, in contrast to the earlier Medal of Honor: Frontline, it is presented as a great victory in spite of the fact it's actually the Allies' most notorious bungle. It's also an example of the reverse angle (as in the Axis consisting entirely of Germans), as despite half the game taking place in Italy, even before the point where they officially surrendered, you only fight Italian blackshirts in the first half of the first level - where they are much dumber than the German soldiersnote Italian soldiers were actually pretty competent, to the point Erwin Rommel noted they were better than his own German troops at times - it was their commanders that had issues and only use German weapons. | |
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The Ultimates: Back in the day, Herr Kleiser boasted that, once Washington was wiped from the map, the Allies would have to find a new leadership, perhaps in Stalin or in the United Kingdom. However, those countries led the Allies on equal terms, the US had no special authority over the UK and the URSS. If either of the three countries had been invaded or taken out of the war, the others would have continued all the same. | |
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Sergei Lukyanenko mocks this attitude in the book Day Watch where an American soldier (a Light Other) in Prague talks about how they liberated the place from the Germans. Earlier in the same book, Las is described as wearing a t-shirt with a picture of a Red Army-man bayoneting a Wehrmacht soldier and the text "Remember who really won the War!" Las was in "Twilight (Dusk) Watch", and (in the original Russian version, at least) he wears t-shirt with a picture of Russian paratrooper knifing "negro in American uniform". And the text was something like "We can help to recall who won the Second World War". |
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Las was in "Twilight (Dusk) Watch", and (in the original Russian version, at least) he wears t-shirt with a picture of Russian paratrooper knifing "negro in American uniform". And the text was something like "We can help to recall who won the Second World War". | |
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Spoofed in the Monkey Dust sketch Hollywood Pictures Presents: The Diary of Anne Frank, along with a slew of other Hollywood clichés. The sketch ends with Anne Frank's all-American boyfriend Johnny killing a room full of Nazis with an American flag, then sucker-punching Hitler with a cry of "This one's for President Churchill!" Several other spoofs appear also, one set in the 'Camelot' era where everyone has American accents, and then 'They all come home' which is a parody of Black Hawk Down lampooning various American military cliches. |
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Several other spoofs appear also, one set in the 'Camelot' era where everyone has American accents, and then 'They all come home' which is a parody of Black Hawk Down lampooning various American military cliches. | |
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Friends: Invoked in the fourth series finale when Ross and Emily's parents are arguing over paying the costs of the wedding. | |
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The Wolfenstein series is about American soldier B.J. Blazkowicz taking on the Nazis all by himself. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory allows you to play as one of two sides: one is Nazi Germany, guess who the other is? Considering you know how the war turns out the implication is a given. In this specific case, however, it's probably less an intentional use of this trope, and more paralleling the singleplayer games. The 2009 Wolfenstein can be said to subvert this. While you are still American One-Man Army B.J. Blazkowicz, the assistance of the German resistance is necessary and invaluable to your success, which also nicely averts the common All Germans Are Nazis trope that appears so often in Nazi-based FPSs. This is continued in Wolfenstein: The New Order, where while all-American Badass B.J. gets the most done, he wouldn't be nearly as effective if he didn't have the help of the same resistance movement, still primarily made up of Germans, to make sure he's in the right place to do his thing. Not to mention that the game is more or less a direct inversion, with America - and for that matter, everyone who isn't Germany, even their (former) allies - losing the war. |
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Fortress focuses on a B-17 crew in the 99th Bombardment Group (Heavy), 12th Air Force flying out of North Africa in 1943. Despite the narrow focus, this gets averted when every mission briefing includes a mention of RAF bombers hitting high-risk targets too. No mention of the Russians, but it's justified because they were only slightly more relevant than the Japanese in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. | |
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On Well There's Your Problem Liam, an American, likes to use this trope to heckle British co-host Alice and any other British guest co-hosts (though it's all tongue-in-cheek). | |
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The Medal of Honor series, despite focusing on an American OSS operative for most of the games, generally acknowledges the contributions of other countries to the war. Played straight, however, in Medal of Honor: Airborne, where each mission ends with a debriefing voice-over from the commanding officer. After a relatively minor skirmish in Italy in early 1943, he proclaims "the war has begun", and after a very over-the-top raid on a flak tower in early 1945 he says that the war is over and effectively gives the Airborne itself full credit in his speech. The British are mentioned in passing in one mission, Operation Market Garden - fascinatingly, in contrast to the earlier Medal of Honor: Frontline, it is presented as a great victory in spite of the fact it's actually the Allies' most notorious bungle. It's also an example of the reverse angle (as in the Axis consisting entirely of Germans), as despite half the game taking place in Italy, even before the point where they officially surrendered, you only fight Italian blackshirts in the first half of the first level - where they are much dumber than the German soldiersnote Italian soldiers were actually pretty competent, to the point Erwin Rommel noted they were better than his own German troops at times - it was their commanders that had issues and only use German weapons. |
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