Chapter
Why the public isn't ready for war
1:45:50 - 1:51:22 (05:32)
The author says that he has read a lot of modern histories on the subject and he has a very interesting viewpoint on the subject.
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Historian Campbell Craig argues that FDR's decision to take America into WW2 was controversial at the time and that some historians, like Charles Austin Beard, believed it to be a conspiracy.
1:45:50 - 1:48:10 (02:19)
Summary
Historian Campbell Craig argues that FDR's decision to take America into WW2 was controversial at the time and that some historians, like Charles Austin Beard, believed it to be a conspiracy. However, FDR may have had a more far-seeing perspective on the situation than the American public, which later approved of his decision and discredited Beard's argument.
ChapterWhy the public isn't ready for war
EpisodeShow 63 - Supernova in the East II
PodcastDan Carlin's Hardcore History
Modern histories on WWII offer an opposing viewpoint that the war in China was a proxy war not only for the US but for Great Britain as well.
1:48:10 - 1:51:22 (03:12)
Summary
Modern histories on WWII offer an opposing viewpoint that the war in China was a proxy war not only for the US but for Great Britain as well. Japan was already in a war with the US, as well as the Soviet Union, without a single US troop, and FDR was possibly following that principle.