Mary, read a history book. Germany turned away from the UK at the end of 1940 and started to focus on Russia – with a number of campaigns in between such as the Balkans campaign and Crete. You can see it in the number attacks on the UK which declined rapidly after Oct/Nov 1940, leaving just nightly blitzes and Germany didn’t even start attacking the UK until August 1940. So saying UK held off Germany for 6 months is generous.
Arming isn’t the same as fighting but exactly how do you think the battle of britain would have gone with no fuel for fighters and no ammunition and no artillery or tanks – you left most of that behind at Dunkirk. Bottom line no US aid=German victory.
Nobody claims the US “defeated” the Nazis. Most of the fighting was done on the Eastern front – and also in 1942, the USSR was kept alive by the US aid – but the US did indisputably hold back the Russians from the rest of the West as well as paying for establishing your health and social services. Certainly the UK’s contribution wasn’t so much on the fighting side – think cracking the enigma and the start of the atomic programme as well as acting as a base for the US to attack Europe from.
