Ashton Reinhardt
4/28/2014 03:29:15 pm
You could say that there were really three separate roads to war, each one apparently pointing in a diverse directions until they unpredictably merged at Pearl Harbor. The first, in Europe, Adolf Hitler built across Germany, as the Nazis' recurring acts of military aggression pushed the continent inevitably toward war. The second, in the United States, was not so much a road as a roadblock, as the American people and their legislature in congress did everything possible to avoid being drawn into the conflict. And the third, also in the United States, was as winding and rocky as a forgotten country backroad, as President Franklin Roosevelt slowly schemed the country into a position of support for the Allies despite overwhelming public opinion (and a series of restrictive laws) that demanded strict neutrality.
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