Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Key Foreign Affairs( Significance)

DECLARE WAR ON Axis Power
HEADLILINE PEARL HARBOR BOMD, ALLIED FORCE YAY
USA JOINS WWII

“By the end of November, Roosevelt knew that an attack was imminent (the United States had broken the Japanese code), but Roosevelt was uncertain where it would take place” (biography.com). Before the attack one day the warning of war was send to US Army and many places but did not receive it in time due to errors. To his great surprise, Japanese bomb and destroy completely Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941. This was his famous speech called Infamy Speech on somber day “ December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan”(Franklin Delano Roosevelt December 17 1941). The attack killed 3000 Americans, destroyed completely the whole fleet and its entire stored aircrafts. The attack had made America raged, and somber to the lost of the people. After the attack 3 days, United State declared war in Central Axis. Following in action, Nazi and Italy declared war America.

Roosevelt Contribution During World War II
By the time that USA joined the war, Soviet also changed their side to join Allied Force which now had 3 main members. These members were called the Big Three( Roosevelt ,Churchill, Stalin). “They often met at conference to formulate strategies as well as contact diplomatic and military channels”(Wikipedia). US promised to be the supplier of this war by shipping $50 billion of Lend Lease supplies, primarily to Britain and to the USSR, China and other Allies.
The initial strategy of the war by the US war department was to invade France across the English Channel. “Churchill, wary of the casualties he feared this would entail, favored a more indirect approach, advancing northwards from the Mediterranean Sea. Roosevelt rejected this plan.”(wikipedia). Roosevelt decided to attack via Africa first was: The allied will have the place where they can add soldier and military supply and a person stand. “Roosevelt was planning to Sandwich Germany” (Mr. Stephen Ladias 2009). Stalin would be on the western front to battle against Central Axis.
Now Axis Power ( Germany ,Italy, and Ottoman) must face war on two sides, Western Front (Britain and America), and Eastern Front(Soviet Union). The Allied Forcehad triumphant in France and succeeded their initial plan. Following recapture of France, they captured Sicily( Italian Island), and then captured Italy and their leader, Mussolini. Now,Germany had to face war on both sides. Soviet Union, America, and Britain were around their border started to bombard Germany.
In 1944 Roosevelt began to use bombing strategy escalated in 1944, pulverizing all major German cities and cutting off oil supplies. “He picked general Dwight D. Eisenhower to head the Allied cross-channel invasion to do the operation and also some other several great generate in partner with Churchill and Stalin”(TIME 100). The operation was called Overlord. “Some of the most costly battles of the war ensued after the invasion, and the Allies were blocked on the German border in the "Battle of the Bulge" in December 1944. This battle concluded the end of the World War II, and peace was again in the world. Pity for Roosevelt, he died before the V - E Day.

YALTA CONFERENCE: Plan after World War with Stalin and Churchill
Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, the Big Three, came to together to lay the foundation of the United Nation, the new league of nation in order to make the world closer and become united. The Big Three agreed at the Yalta Conference to make the post war decision. Three of main points in this conference were: Germany would be divided into four occupy zones, repaired the Germany, and would fight against Japan after 90 days of V - E Day.

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