Summary of Brendan Simms & Charlie Laderman's Hitler's American Gamble

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Get the Summary of Brendan Simms & Charlie Laderman's Hitler's American Gamble in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Hitler’s American Gamble recounts the five days that upended everything: December 7 to 11. Tracing developments in real time and backed by deep archival research, historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman show how Hitler’s intervention was not the inexplicable decision of a man so bloodthirsty that he forgot all strategy, but a calculated risk that can only be understood in a truly global context. This book reveals how December 11, not Pearl Harbor, was the real watershed that created a world war and transformed international history.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638157977

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Insights on Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman's Hitlers American Gamble

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Hitler declared war on the United States four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, because he believed that the two conflicts were caused by Jewish international finance.

#2

The United States entered World War I as an unrivaled industrial and military power. By the end of the war, the country had become even more powerful, and had helped shape a new international order centered on the League of Nations.

#3

The Great Depression of the 1930s showed the limits of America’s power, as it was forced to make concessions at the Paris Peace Conference. Britain, on the other hand, remained relatively more economically and politically powerful than its European rivals.

#4

The relationship between the United States and the British Empire was, to say the least, complicated. While many Americans viewed the British as rulers of the global economy, many Brits viewed America as nothing more than a greedy, selfish country that only cared about its own interests.

#5

Hitler and Imperial Japan both wanted to expand their territories and their populations. Hitler went about it legally through the German government, whereas Japan went about it illegally by kidnapping people and taking them away to work in their colonies.

#6

The Japanese felt they had been wronged by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, which limited their navy to a mere 15 battleships. They also resented the American Immigration Act of 1924, which discriminated against Asian immigrants.

#7

Hitler and the Japanese saw themselves as fellow victims of Jewish conspiracies.

#8

The three main Axis powers began to cooperate with each other. Italy and Germany formed an alliance in October 1936, and Japan and Germany signed an Anti-Comintern Pact in November 1936.

#9

The United States had long been considered an isolationist country, meaning it did not want to get involved in other countries’ problems. However, this all changed with the rise of Nazi Germany and its allies.

#10

The United States began to prepare for war, as it feared that the European powers might encircle the Americas.

#11

Britain, with its stretched out empire, was facing a lot of potential adversaries. It had to reach secret agreements with them in order to keep the peace.

#12

From the late 1930s onward, the rise of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan forced the major powers to re-evaluate their positions on the world stage. With England and America now clearly identified as hostile, Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo were given their rightful place at the table for the first time.

#13

Hitler believed that the United States was weak, and that a war with the Americans would be a walk in