What is the main idea of this document?
Memo from the Joint Chiefs of Staff: December 26, 1942 (abridged)
- It isrecommended that the following be approved as the strategic objectives of theUnited Nations in support of the basic strategic concept as stated above. In arriving at its recommendations the JointChiefs of Staff have taken note:
AThat Germany is our primary enemy
BThat Russia is exerting great pressure onGermany and is absorbing the majority of her war effort;
CThat Russia’s continuance as a major factorin the war is of cardinal importance;
DThat timely and substantial support ofRussia, directly by supplies and indirectly by offensive operations againstGermany must be a basic factor in our strategic policy
EThat until such time as major offensive operationscan be undertaken against Japan, we must prevent her consolidating andexploiting her conquests by rendering all practicable support to China and byinflicting irreplaceable losses on Japanese naval, shipping and air resources;
f. That a prerequisite to the successfulaccomplishment of the strategic concept for 1943 is an improvement in thepresent critical shipping situation by intensified and more effectiveanti-submarine warfare.
Choose one answer.
AThe Soviet Union has begun minor operations against Germany.
BAllied efforts against German submarines in the Atlantic have thus far been unsuccessful.
CJapan is the primary enemy of the Allies and the main focus of 1943 is to defeat them.
DGermany is the primary enemy of the Allies and the major focus of 1943 is to defeat them.
Memo from the Joint Chiefs of Staff: December 26, 1942 (abridged)
AThat Germany is our primary enemy
BThat Russia is exerting great pressure onGermany and is absorbing the majority of her war effort;
CThat Russia’s continuance as a major factorin the war is of cardinal importance;
DThat timely and substantial support ofRussia, directly by supplies and indirectly by offensive operations againstGermany must be a basic factor in our strategic policy
EThat until such time as major offensive operationscan be undertaken against Japan, we must prevent her consolidating andexploiting her conquests by rendering all practicable support to China and byinflicting irreplaceable losses on Japanese naval, shipping and air resources;
Choose one answer.
AThe Soviet Union has begun minor operations against Germany.
BAllied efforts against German submarines in the Atlantic have thus far been unsuccessful.
CJapan is the primary enemy of the Allies and the main focus of 1943 is to defeat them.
DGermany is the primary enemy of the Allies and the major focus of 1943 is to defeat them.
