During the 1930’s, isolationism and the depression swept through the
United States. But before the fall of France in 1940, the United States was
starting to pull away from being neutral, which they claimed at the beginning of
the European war.
Americans and the British would hold conversations between themselves
known as the ABC talks. It was there that they both targeted Germany as their
prime enemy. Even though there was tension in the Pacific in 1941, American
leaders had agreed that any war that was going to occur between Japan and the
United States had to be secondary. Our prime target was Germany, and that’s
what we would focus on defeating.
Roosevelt soon concluded that America should be in support of the British
in order to help defeat the Germans. It was the Germans who posed to the
greatest threat. Americans preferred a brief, but violent war, with all of their
resources brought to them in which would enable them to have......
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