Allied Nations Quotes
After the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Stimson drafted the Declaration of War that President Roosevelt would ask Congress to vote for. However, there was a small but very vocal group of extreme Republican conservatives who opposed assisting England against Hitler and saw German and Italian Fascism as positive forces. They would oppose any administration declaration of war against Germany and Italy who had not yet attacked any American facilities. The President realized that German and Italy had a Mutual Defense Treaty with Japan, and when we declared war against Japan, would have to ally with Japan or reneg on their treaty. So FDR removed Germany and Italy from the Declaration and Congress just declared war against Germany. In the next days, Germany and Italy declared war against the United States, and the de facto situation was as Stimson had drafted it, but FDR had not given the right wing American Fascist sympathizers any issue to criticize the administration.
There were critics of the Treaty of Versailles in Britain as well as the United States.
The profits that England made on the North American Colonies and the Caribbean were very large. 10 years before the American Revolution most sophisticated English politicians realized that and one of the reasons the British fought so hard to keep America from Independence was that money.
Under the Jay Peace Treaty for the American Revolution, the Iroquois were recognized as an Independent Nation. (5 of the tribes fought for the British and 1 for the Colonists which is why the Iroquois were one of the subjects of the peace treaty. In 1942. the Iroquois wanted to maintain their own sovereignty and so they made their own declaration of war in WWII. Then Iroquois men then enlisted in the American Armed Forces. The Iroquois had made their own separate Declaration of War in WWI as well.
The Germans, having invaded France and other countries in WWI, were determined in the Treaty of Versailles to be responsible for the war. They were to pay reparations to France and other countries to cover the costs to those countries of financing the war and rebuilding what the German invasion destroyed. But Germany too was destitute and needed capital to rebuild and if they paid the reparations whey would have to lay a very heavy tax on all Germans and still would not have enough to rebuild their nation and economy. What made the situation much worse was the fact that most of the wealthy German capitalists—many of whom had profited from supplying military weapons and supplies during the war—took all their money out of Germany, so the wealthiest Germans could not be taxed much at all. Auld, and many others tried to find an equitable solution, but that never happened and German resentment carried over into WWII where the Germans again invaded France.
