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J. Robert Oppenheimer - "father" of the atomic bomb
by gregd 13y ago
J. Robert Oppenheimer - "father" of the atomic bomb
- gregd 13y agoDwight D. Eisenhower - most notably the leader of the Allied Expeditionary Forces during WWII. I shudder to think where we'd be if Hitler were allowed to continue...
- hga 13y agoDwight D. Eisenhower if only as a political general who kept the fractious Allied commanders and units together. He gets a special award for being Montgomery's direct report, shielding a lot of people above from having to directly deal with him (not a joke, I'm saying this in all seriousness). Churchill: without his resolution and ability, we very possibly would have had to start the invasion of Europe with Ireland or Great Britain, assuming it ever happened. Right next to Hitler put Marx and Lenin, who's death toll overwhelms the former. FDR, who right next to the above including Lenin's successor Stalin, who also completely changed the nature of his country's government and eventually the country's nature (read The Managerial Revolution). As the then most powerful country in the world, that was a very big thing.
- sanoli 13y agoSo put in Soviet Union in place of Eisenhower. They're the ones who actually stopped Hitler.
- hga 13y agoIt's really hard to say that. The Red Army ripped the guts out of the German's striking forces, but if they'd taken the U.K. and Ireland they wouldn't have had to pour all that much treasure in Festung Europa not to mention keep all those troops there. It's also an open question if the Soviets could have held the line without all the supplies we sent them, which again depended a great deal on the U.K. still being in the war.
- gregd 13y agoPsshh. The Eastern front was a diversion for the real war on the other side. ;)
- sanoli 13y agoHello there, fellow Hollywood director!