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[narrator] During 1943,
debate over the timing of a western invasion
of mainland Europe had come close to breaking
the Grand Alliance. With his forces sustaining
colossal losses in the east, Stalin was impatient
for a second front to be opened in
Western Europe without delay. Churchill, however,
preferred an attack through the Mediterranean
via Sicily and Italy, Europe's soft underbelly. Roosevelt was caught
in the middle, but ultimately backed Stalin, in return
for the Soviet leader's declaration of war
against Japan. Churchill has
this Imperial holdover of really seeing the Eastern Mediterranean
as the key to Europe
debate over the timing of a western invasion
of mainland Europe had come close to breaking
the Grand Alliance. With his forces sustaining
colossal losses in the east, Stalin was impatient
for a second front to be opened in
Western Europe without delay. Churchill, however,
preferred an attack through the Mediterranean
via Sicily and Italy, Europe's soft underbelly. Roosevelt was caught
in the middle, but ultimately backed Stalin, in return
for the Soviet leader's declaration of war
against Japan. Churchill has
this Imperial holdover of really seeing the Eastern Mediterranean
as the key to Europe
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[narrator] During 1943,
debate over the timing
00:00:04.004 --> 00:00:06.072
of a western invasion
of mainland Europe
00:00:06.088 --> 00:00:09.006
had come close to breaking
the Grand Alliance.
00:00:09.076 --> 00:00:12.088
With his forces sustaining
colossal losses in the east,
00:00:13.999 --> 00:00:15.028
Stalin was impatient
for a second front
00:00:15.044 --> 00:00:17.092
to be opened in
Western Europe without delay.
00:00:18.998 --> 00:00:20.028
Churchill, however,
preferred an attack
00:00:20.044 --> 00:00:23.032
through the Mediterranean
via Sicily and Italy,
00:00:23.048 --> 00:00:25.024
Europe's soft underbelly.
00:00:25.004 --> 00:00:27.002
Roosevelt was caught
in the middle,
00:00:27.088 --> 00:00:29.068
but ultimately backed Stalin,
00:00:29.084 --> 00:00:31.006
in return
for the Soviet leader's
00:00:31.076 --> 00:00:34.056
declaration of war
against Japan.
00:00:34.072 --> 00:00:36.068
Churchill has
this Imperial holdover
00:00:36.084 --> 00:00:38.999
of really seeing
00:00:38.002 --> 00:00:40.004
the Eastern Mediterranean
as the key to Europe.
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