re: What are some of the worst mistakes in history?

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U.S. entering WWI

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You got the boys at the federal reserve bank to thank for that. They are the biggest mistake in the history of this country bar far. Nothing comes close. Nothing.

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the federal reserve bank to thank for that. They are the biggest mistake in the history of this country bar far. Nothing comes close. Nothing.

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This. Very much this.

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I'm sure there are a lot of people this sort of thing has happened to.

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on the flip side, when Southwest Airlines started up, and cash was tight, they paid a lot of the original employees with stock, those first employees did all right, a bunch of baggage handlers cashed out, transferred to Corpus, and kept working, at one time, everyone working the ramp down there was a millionaire, and it was referred to as the south Texas millionaires club by other employees

Dustin Hoffman turned down the role of Han solo in star wars.

Neville Chamberlain and everyone who tries to appease and buys short term peace at the cost of long term misery.

appointing Joe Kennedy as Ambassador to the UK

The worst mistake in history was those damn Hypercolor Tshirts. I had one. Went out on a cold day and my body temp changed the color of my shirt at my nipples and belly button. Looked fricking stupid out in public like that.

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that's one of the dumbest things I have ever read and it's "world" superpower not "national" superpower. All slavery ended in America in 1865 and America wasn't considered a world superpower until the end of WW2 in 1945. 80 YEARS LATER. America became a world power because of 2 reasons:

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You forget about WWI. It was the Great War that saw the US emerge as a super power. Furthermore, even before WWI, it was the Spanish-Anerican War followed by The voyage of the Great White Fleet and Teddy Roosevelt brokering peace between Japan and the Russian Empire to end the Russo-Japanese War that first hearalded the emergence of America as a major player on thd world stage.

In my opinion the biggest mistake in at least modern history was Great Britain taking what would have been a continental war in the summer of 1914 and turning it into a world war. Had the Brits stayed out, the war would have probably lasted no more than a couple years and would not have grown into the greatest transformative human event since the discovery of the new world.

The Britons hiring Saxons to fight as mercenaries for them and getting in a payment dispute with them.

The Romans incorporating more and more "barbarians" into their armies.

Re - The discussion above about never having slavery in the country: There are so many variables as to how things would have played out in this scenario that it's hard to say what the country would look like now. Without slave labor would the south have gone to the type of agrarian economy it did? Would it have been sparsely populated? Would the native peoples have retained more of a presence? Would the North have dominated the country even more than it did? Or would the South have transitioned to more of an industrial economy faster?