Date of Award

Summer 1985

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Committee Director

Carl Boyd

Committee Member

Darwin Bostick

Committee Member

Patrick Rollins

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.H47 B87

Abstract

The American-British Alliance of World Mar II did not evolve by chance but was the result of deliberate steps wh1ch can be traced back to 1938 when naval coordination talks were conducted in London. These talks emerged from an American evaluation of defense commitments in the Pacific and recognition that British cooperation would be valued in a future war.

The theme of this study is the development of the alliance and how that process was influenced by the debate over the strategy for the war in Europe. The most important decision in this process was the Europe first policy. Roosevelt always remained faithful to this policy but Churchill was willing to manipulate the policy if it interfered with his desire to maintain Britain's position in the post-war world.

Worthwhile sources for this study included the Roosevelt and Marshall Libraries and interviews with Generals Albert C. Wedemeyer and Mark M. Clark. Other important sources were the Churchill series on the war and the Pogue series on General Marshall.

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DOI

10.25777/k606-6d69

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