They were not prepared for war. The greatest possible disadvantage was that if they had tried to attack Germany at that time, they may well have lost. They needed time to ramp up for full military action.
After "the war to end all wars" (World War I, which was then called The Great War), there had been a strong aversion to return to war. The world was not ready for the way Germany remilitarized itself and used <em>Blitzkrieg </em>tactics to embark on a new war. When Germany attacked France in May, 1940, France was overwhelmed. The British needed to hold on with much resolve during the Battle of Britain (July - October, 1940). So to think that the British or French were ready in 1939 or 1940 to take on the German war machine on German soil would have been potentially disastrous.
<span>The main motivation is to stave off the influence of the Soviet Union by policing the world. The United States of America didn't wish for communism to spread nor for the Soviet Union's power to grow and become more persuasive.</span>
In order to stem the onslaught of Comanche attacks on settlers and travelers, the U.S. government assigned the Indians to reservations in 1867. Quanah and his band, however, refused to cooperate and continued their raids.
Working and middle-class viewers were catered by television providing storylines about ethnic families. Obviously television, since that was the new technology that was entering everyone's houses at the time. Did you really not know this?
