The US and British leadership in the Second World War followed the so called “Europe First” or sometimes called “Germany First” strategy, meaning that there was a focus on defeating Germany first and after that focus against the Japanese in the Pacific. Many of the US military leaders were not particularly happy about this arrangement between Roosevelt and Churchill. Additionally, if we look closer, in practice it was not “Germany First” but “Italy first”. Cover Design by vonKickass. Videos referenced in this video: Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTZmW3qz3Js Wolfpack Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La6BM3HnU98 Was the Afrika Korps worth it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD8eic4uLUw Tactics - Operations - Strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yk0gROTHnI Why was the Wehrmacht so effective? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgQglp7OZcA »» SUPPORT MHV «« » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » patreon - https://www.patreon.com/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » Book Wishlist https://www.amazon.de/gp/registry/wishlist/3LJIXNJIUXJES/ref=cm_wl_huc_view?language=en_GB »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « Fennell, Jonathan: Fighting the People’s War. The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2019 Wagner, Gerhard (Hrsg.): Lagevorträge des Oberbefehlshabers der Kriegsmarine vor Hitler 1939-1945. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag: München, 1972 Citino, Robert M.: The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943. University Press Kansas, USA, 2012. Ball, Simon: The Mediterranean and North Africa, 1940-1944, in: Cambridge History of the Second World War – Volume I, p. 358-388 Cambridge History of the Second World War. Volume I: Fighting the War. Cambridge University Press: UK, 2015. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Band