Overview

This book provides a penetrating look into Franklin D. Roosevelt's strategy to bait Adolf Hitler into declaring war on America in order to defeat Germany militarily, thus preventing the Nazis from developing the atomic bomb. In late 1939, President Roosevelt learned that Hitler was attempting to develop an atomic bomb to use against the United States. The president responded by directing his own scientific community to develop an atomic bomb and began making plans to go to war with Germany. However, he was hampered by public opinion, with 80 percent of the American people against U.S. involvement in another ground war in Europe. Roosevelt seized an opportunity in 1940, when Japan and Nazi Germany formed a military alliance. To bait Germany into war, FDR shut down Japan's war-making economy, prompting Tokyo to attack Pearl Harbor. A few days later, Hitler declared war on America. Using declassified documents, this book shows how Pearl Harbor was not about Japan; it was about the United States going to war with Germany. It reveals how the U.S. Navy's intelligence gathering system could break virtually any Japanese naval code, but Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was kept in the dark about the impending Pearl Harbor attack by his own government.

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Author:   Sewall Menzel (Independent Scholar, USA) ,  Tobias R. Philbin
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Weight:   0.709kg
ISBN:  

9781440875854

ISBN 10:   1440875855
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   04 May 2020
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword by Tobias R. Philbin Acknowledgments Introduction Abbreviations Chapter 1 Rising Sun in the Pacific Chapter 2 War Plan Orange and the Evolution of U.S. Naval Intelligence in the Pacific Chapter 3 The U.S. Navy's ""Splendid Arrangement"" in the Pacific Chapter 4 Roosevelt's Driving Imperative Chapter 5 Tracking the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific Chapter 6 The Combined Fleet Prepares to Attack Chapter 7 ""The Cornered Mouse Bites the Cat"": The Overt Act Strategy Comes to Fruition Chapter 8 An Alternative Course of Action: Kimmel's Preemptive Ambush in the North Pacific Epilogue Appendix A: Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum's 8-Point Memorandum (October 7, 1940) Appendix B: Pearl Harbor Original Target Grid Bomb Plot Messages (September 24 and 29, 1941) Notes Bibliography Index Photo essay appears following page 142"

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Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. - Choice

"""Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers."" - Choice"

Author Information

Sewall Menzel is a political-military analyst and scholar with a degree in history from The Citadel and a doctorate in international relations from the University of Miami.

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