Elusive Victories_ The American Presidency at War-Oxford University Press (2012)

172 e lusive v ictories political fate of postwar Europe, the relative infl uence of the United States and Great Britain in wart ...

f reedom of a ction 173 but yielding. Still, fi ghting in the Mediterranean did hold the prospect of driving Italy out of the wa ...

174 e lusive v ictories remain so for many months. More important, British planners pointed out that the Germans could reinforce ...

f reedom of a ction 175 HUSKY resulted in Mussolini being deposed and arrested. Th e inev- itable next step saw Allied forces la ...

176 e lusive v ictories percentage would increase until by the end of the war the United States contributed approximately two-th ...

f reedom of a ction 177 Th e result was an epic campaign on an island virtually no American before the war could have found on a ...

178 e lusive v ictories other senior offi cers preferred seizure of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Th e matter might have been resolved w ...

f reedom of a ction 179 other hand, in political terms, the region mattered greatly to leaders in Great Britain and the United S ...

180 e lusive v ictories as the gateway back to Burma, Malaya, and Singapore. Accordingly, after defeating a last-throw-of-the di ...

f reedom of a ction 181 point where the destruction contributed to the reduction of the war- fi ghting capacity of either enemy. ...

182 e lusive v ictories Democrats anticipated a brief occupation of the defeated Confederate states followed by a return to self ...

f reedom of a ction 183 Rather than the outcome of a clear political decision, Germany’s postwar future refl ected military expe ...

184 e lusive v ictories Th e Anglo-American Allies could do nothing to alter the situation. It became fashionable after the war, ...

f reedom of a ction 185 Poland because he needed to mollify the large number of Polish Ameri- cans. Th e president risked provok ...

186 e lusive v ictories bomb continued, with the goal of having one or more weapons ready during summer 1945. Th e end of the wa ...

f reedom of a ction 187 However, by early 1945 he was forced to acknowledge that he had no alternative but to agree to make Fran ...

188 e lusive v ictories Arthur Vandenburg, appointing him to the U.S. delegation to the April 1945 San Francisco conference to f ...

f reedom of a ction 189 Th e Prime Minister and the President Judged against the performance of his adversaries, Roosevelt stand ...

190 e lusive v ictories overwhelmed in the fi rst weeks of the war, due in part to Stalin’s rigidity, and suffered as many as 2 ...

f reedom of a ction 191 have kept his nation afl oat in summer 1940 after the defeat of France and the Dunkirk evacuation. Apart ...