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Prof. Byrnes last week, we talked about coming to the war in europe. I would like to talk about the american reaction to all of that. Lets call it the great debate over american involvement in world war ii. This is arguably the most important debate on Foreign Policy in all of american history. Public opinion probably more than any previous debate mattered here. In part because for the first time, there was a way of gauging Public Opinion. The Gallup Organization had begun regularly polling American People. Leaders had a more direct sense of what people thought. You will see a lot of polling data in fleshing out what it was that americans thought. I will focus a bit on Public Opinion, and then we will talk about actual policy as a reflection of that Public Opinion. At the start of the war in europe, my argument is that there were two basic positions held unanimously by the American People. They wanted britain and france to win the war. They wanted to defeat germany. They did not want t

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