Posted on 08/14/2011 4:55:27 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
agreed, plus one additional fact. japan tried for a couple years, and especially in 1941 to get Britain and the US to join with them in an anti-communist anti Soviet alliance as a way of being a partner and getting the embargo dropped. Britain especially didnt like the soviets, but didnt really trust the Japanese enough to bite.
then, Japan did in fact attack Russia, which only further isolated Japan since by then the allies had swallowed hard and began treating Stalin as an ally.
I’m not aware of either of these events. Do you have a source for these?
which events? not sure which post you are asking about.
but, the main source is this NHK research. they have actual interviews with the figures from archives, and the govt, army, and navy records.
Too bad that only gives me a 30 second snippet. I’d be interested in watching that series if for nothing else to hear the postwar interviews.
It should have read Colonel-General Hoepner.
yeah. i sent them an e mail asking if the series is avail for download or on dvd. i ll let you know if it is. check out the trailers for the other parts of the series as well.
Thanks, I definitely would want to download it if it is available.
mind blowing pics and text. making a donation to the freepathon in the name of homer and this thread
FDR did not ignite the war, ever, intentionally or unintentionally.
The war was ignited in Europe by Adolf Hitler, and in Asia by the Japanese military -- no single name comes to mind there.
The issue was: faced with a new world war, what was President Roosevelt going to do about it?
The answer is that, unlike most Americans of the day, FDR soon realized the US would have to do everything possible to prevent utter defeat of the western allies, even our closest ally, Britain.
So he set about doing what he could to help.
But it was soon obvious that what the President could do was not nearly enough, and Americans were not going to support getting suckered into another foreign war.
So FDR began looking for ways to provoke the Germans and Japanese into some sort of "mistake" which might enrage Americans enough for a formal declaration of all-out war.
But in the Atlantic, Hitler wouldn't bite FDR's bait, and such incidents as did occasionally happened were not taken by most Americans as enough to justify war against Germany.
And in the Pacific, the results were apparently the same -- despite FDR's efforts, no Japanese "mistake" serious enough to declare war.
Until December 7, 1941.
What a wonderful gesture! Thank you so much. And the pictures are incredible. I just hope they don't have me in therapy before the war is over.
dont take this the wrong way, but i cant wait for dec 6. i want to read the paper the day before, and the day after.
Is that paragraph from the Hitler heads east book?
Don't forget the time difference. As far as the print news goes Dec. 7 is the day before.
Sorry, my fault I didn't cite the book. It's called:
German Infantryman - Eastern Front 1941-43 by David Westwood
No worries man. :)
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