urchill. Rumors were rampant. Roosevelt was immediately accused of conspiring with Churchill in order to get the United States into the war. They still were not convinced that England needed the aid of the United States. They still were not convinced that without this aid, England would be overtaken. This is, however, something that Roosevelt understood. At that point in time, he knew what was best for the world and what was best for the United States.
             As well as knowing that England needed the aid of the United States immediately, he also knew that he had to come up with a way to convince the Americans of it. Remembering what he said to them during his re-election campaign, he knew that he could not simply "go back" on his promise of neutrality. As Beach puts it, "He needed strong enough reasons for war to overturn the entrenched isolationists." This, he unfortunately would not get until the incident at Pearl Harbor. In the meantime, he had to secretly break his promise of neutrality in order to keep England from going head over heals. The Royal Navy was all that was left to fight against the Germans. Churchill and Roosevelt both knew that the demise of England was soon approaching. Roosevelt had to juggle finding a way to get the United States in the war and finding a way to help the Royal Navy as much as possible without "officially" being directly involved in the war. This was the crisis that plagued the lives of both Churchill and Roosevelt during the years of 1940 and 1941. This is the crisis that could have allowed Hitler and Nazi Germany to take over England, had not Roosevelt done his part.
             2. Explain the great value of the code-breaking ability of America of the Japanese secret codes. Why was it better not to react on the basis of some of the confidential intelligence received from the coded information?
             The great value of the code-breaking ability that the United States secr...