The Nazi offensives only started to be reversed after the battle of Kursk, in August 1943. By that time the Americans were in Sicily, and had been fighting on the Western Front for over six months.
It's possible to argue that the USA postponed its involvement in the war in the interest of attrition of the USSR, but the path of the war was anything but clear preceding its entry.
"Contributing very little" is accurate about the Eastern Front, debatable about the Western Front, and not reasonable about the Pacific. "Contributing less than others" is more accurate.
No matter how fast the North Africa and Italy campaigns went, the point is that it was enough to divide the European Axis powers onto two active fronts. Unless you can tell me how the US Army could get onto the Eastern Front through Turkey and the Caucasus, or via the very Nazi-occupied Baltic Sea, there's no point in talking about the USA's influence on the Eastern Front.
The majority of the war was the Eastern Front, but the majority isn't equal to the whole. No one is saying that the Soviets weren't the biggest factor in the war, but saying that American involvement was inconsequential is inaccurate.
The Nazi offensives only started to be reversed after the battle of Kursk, in August 1943. By that time the Americans were in Sicily, and had been fighting on the Western Front for over six months.
It's possible to argue that the USA postponed its involvement in the war in the interest of attrition of the USSR, but the path of the war was anything but clear preceding its entry.
"Contributing very little" is accurate about the Eastern Front, debatable about the Western Front, and not reasonable about the Pacific. "Contributing less than others" is more accurate.
The whole fucking war was the eastern front and who gives af about Sicily? They were beating around the bush
No matter how fast the North Africa and Italy campaigns went, the point is that it was enough to divide the European Axis powers onto two active fronts. Unless you can tell me how the US Army could get onto the Eastern Front through Turkey and the Caucasus, or via the very Nazi-occupied Baltic Sea, there's no point in talking about the USA's influence on the Eastern Front.
The majority of the war was the Eastern Front, but the majority isn't equal to the whole. No one is saying that the Soviets weren't the biggest factor in the war, but saying that American involvement was inconsequential is inaccurate.