Monday 16 June 2008

President Roosevelt asked General George Marshall, "How shall we fight this war?" The General replied, "Germany first, Japan second." Compare and...

There is
much more contrast than compare in the answer to this question.  Marshalls attitude was very
different from that of most Americans in the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.


Americans simply did not hate Nazi Germany enough to go to war in the time before
Pearl Harbor.  There was widespread anti-Semitism even in America and it was not yet clear that
Hitler was actually...

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