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When it first entered World War II, why did the United States commit seventy percent of its resources to the war in Europe?
Stalin assured Roosevelt that the Soviet Union could deal with Japan.
Roosevelt felt the other thirty percent were needed to defend the US mainland.
Roosevelt did not feel the US needed to engage Japan.
Roosevelt and Churchill decided to focus on the greater threat first.
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Roosevelt and Churchill decided to focus on the greater threat first.
Explanation: At the Arcadia/“Germany First” decision after Pearl Harbor, the US and Britain agreed Nazi Germany and the European theater posed the most immediate and dangerous threat to the Allied war effort, so about 70% of resources were devoted there while Japan was treated as the second priority.
Explanation: At the Arcadia/“Germany First” decision after Pearl Harbor, the US and Britain agreed Nazi Germany and the European theater posed the most immediate and dangerous threat to the Allied war effort, so about 70% of resources were devoted there while Japan was treated as the second priority.
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