The World War 2 Trivia Book Quotes

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― Bill O'Neill, The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War

“World War One wasn’t really Germany’s fault. A hundred years of simmering tensions and entangling alliances (combined with some unexpected leaps in technology that sent the death count soaring) were to blame. Germany could reasonably shoulder some responsibility, but so could Britain, France, and every other country involved. But, as is always the case for wars, the winners got to decide what to do with the losers, and the winning powers (especially France) wanted to weaken Germany”
― Bill O'Neill, The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War

“signed a lot of disarmament and non-aggression pacts, like 1928’s Kellogg-Briand Pact, pledging not to go to war with any of the other people who signed it. The other signers included Germany, Poland, Africa, Japan, Britain, and France, and later expanded to include Serbia, China, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, so you can see how well that pact turned out. In the 1930s, it became clear that”
― Bill O'Neill, The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War

“because Hitler invaded Poland, which went against the deal that Hitler had made with other European”
― Bill O'Neill, The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War

“In 1935, a British engineer named Robert Watson Watt was asked whether it was possible that the Germans were developing a death ray using radio waves. No such weapon was being made, but in studying the possibility, Watt ended up creating a radar detector, one of the biggest technological advances of WWII.”
― Bill O'Neill, The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War

“The British air force desperately needed planes for their military, and the US had lots of planes but couldn’t sell them to the British, because that would count as selling weapons to a country at war. So, the States enlisted the help of their neighbors, Britain’s colony Canada. American pilots flew their planes to the border between Canada and the United States, which was mostly farmland, and landed them in the fields, and left them there. Then overnight Canadian pilots would cross down into the States and tow the planes north into Canadian lands.”
― Bill O'Neill, The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War

“Appeasement was a policy put in place by Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister to try to avert war. His theory was that trying to prevent Germany from getting what it wanted would cause more harm than good in the long run. Therefore Britain’s official foreign policy would be that they would fulfill Germany’s wishes, “provided they appeared legitimate and were not enforced with violence,” described in German newspaper Der Spiegel. Chamberlain was aware that the British Empire’s resources were limited and that they really didn’t have the power to stop Hitler. So cooperating with them seemed like a better option.”
― Bill O'Neill, The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War