Or you could keep going back to the rise of Nazism, or probably earlier
links.

"James Robinson" wrote in message
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Rob Perkins wrote:

In short, the chain of events which freed Austria from Naziism
started that day, Martin.

Funny, I'd say the chain of events began two years earlier, when England
and France declared war on Germany after the invasion of Poland. The US
participation was simply a later link in that chain.