The ferocious Japanese offensive across the Pacific also put serious pressure on the Roosevelt administration to switch to a Pacific-first strategy. While in late December, polling had shown roughly 60 percent of Americans accepted the administration’s argument that Hitler was the main enemy, by February the majority opinion was reversed, with more than twice as many respondents wanting to concentrate America’s war effort against Japan as against Germany.143 “Only by an intellectual effort had the Americans been convinced that Germany and not Japan was the most dangerous enemy,” Stimson later
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