Then, in 1940, the German blitzkrieg rolled through France and forced British troops back to their home island. The opening of formal war in 1939 started when the Nazi war machine attacked Poland. Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany had started the European problems in the 1930s by rearming and moving into neighboring countries. There was no ambiguity about who the enemy was. Today, many Americans think of World War II as "the last good war," and indeed, the nation was united on a scale never seen before or since. The war that many feared would eventually come to America had now arrived with startling suddenness. Americans alive at that moment can still, more than a half century later, recall vividly where they were when they heard the news that Japanese aircraft had struck the United States Pacific Fleet's base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. December 7, 1941: Franklin Delano Roosevelt said it was a day that would live in infamy. Men enlisting in the Navy, Pittsburgh, PA, circa 1942.
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