| Description |
Professor David Mayers, Senior Fellow of the International History Institute and Professor of History and Political Science at Boston University, will discuss his research on U.S. diplomacy toward Nazi Germany carried out in Berlin in 2008. He will then lead a discussion of critical decisions made in the first years of the war, as the U.S. departed from de facto neutrality at sea and in FDR's rhetoric and policies, yet remained formally neutral and at peace with the Axis states. The discussion will also consider why Hitler made his strange declaration of war on the U.S. on December 11, 1941. |
