Scapegoats Book Report
1. Discuss the author's treatment of the growing crisis in Europe and the urgency of Churchill's concern that Britain desperately needed assistance to withstand Hitler.During the years of 1940 and 1941, the war in Europe caused much concern for Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The longer the war dragged on, the greater their concern grew. With the United States claiming neutrality, Britain and its Royal Navy could not hold off Hitler's army for much longer. There seemed to be nothing the United States could do but to help out in any way it could to keep Britain from being defeated by the Germans. Roosevelt knew that something needed to be done, and it needed to be done quicklyBack home in the United States, Roosevelt had problems of his own. The American people did not want war. They did not concern themselves with what was going on oversees, mainly because some of them had no idea of it. As for the ones who did, they still did not want to be involved in this huge war that was going on so far away from the American shores. Roosevelt had even gone so far as to promise the American people that with himself in office, there would be no war (unless of course the United States was attacked).
It is clear that the author of this book understood the position that Yamamoto was in during the war. Something needed to be done to keep the United States from interfering with the Japanese quest for China. Though in the message an exact time was recorded as to when the attack was to take place, the Japanese so much as said that they were up to some sort of revenge against the United States for not accepting the proposed modus vivendi. They still were not convinced that England needed the aid of the United States. Although they may not have known a specific date or a specific time, they clearly did not inform Kimmel and Short of what they did know. This is, however, something that Roosevelt understood. The famous fourteen part message that came from the Japanese that was passed around to so many different officers in Washing didn't reach Kimmel nor Short. Beach feels that he had enough information to at least realize that something was not right and that some sort of action or plan should have been created. ication and growing concern that was eating away at President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Of course, they learned later that Marshall and Stark had both had the opportunity to go over their testimonies before they were made official. Russia never recovered it's moral from that attack, and they were easily defeated. He certainly took out America's Pacific Fleet, but the part that was unexpected was the reaction of the United States to this act. Yamamoto, however, knowing that through the strategies that were taking place in Japan's conquering attempt of China, a conflict with the United States was inevitable down the road. The author even makes note that a similar situation occurred with Admiral Nimitz in command of the Pacific Fleet.
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author makes note,
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