{"id":5663,"date":"2018-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/23\/roosevelt-la-guerre-nazie-est-une-repugnante-affaire-nous-ne-voulions-pas-y-entrer-mais-nous-y-sommes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:17:01","slug":"roosevelt-la-guerre-nazie-est-une-repugnante-affaire-nous-ne-voulions-pas-y-entrer-mais-nous-y-sommes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/roosevelt-la-guerre-nazie-est-une-repugnante-affaire-nous-ne-voulions-pas-y-entrer-mais-nous-y-sommes\/","title":{"rendered":"Roosevelt : \u00ab La guerre nazie est une r\u00e9pugnante affaire. Nous ne voulions pas y entrer ; mais nous y sommes&#8230;\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<h4>De Gaulle et les Alli\u00e9s dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1939-1945), 5e jour.<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"Seconde guerre mondiale citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\/volume-9\" target=\"_blank\">123 citations en Chronique<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 quelque chose malheur est bon. Pearl Harbor\u00a0: il n\u2019en fallait pas plus, pas moins que cette trag\u00e9die, pour que les <span class=\"caps\">USA<\/span> deviennent nos Alli\u00e9s les plus puissants, dans la guerre devenue v\u00e9ritablement mondiale. Au total, 92 millions d\u2019hommes seront mobilis\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0La guerre nazie est une r\u00e9pugnante affaire. Nous ne voulions pas y entrer\u00a0; mais nous y sommes et nous allons combattre avec toutes nos ressources.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2782\" class=\"cit-num\">2782<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/franklin-delano-roosevelt\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"surname\">Franklin Delano <\/span><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">ROOSEVELT<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1882-1945), D\u00e9claration du pr\u00e9sident des \u00c9tats-Unis, faisant suite \u00e0 l\u2019attaque sur Pearl Harbor du 7\u00a0d\u00e9cembre 1941<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Comment Einstein a chang\u00e9 le monde<\/cite> (2005), Jean-Claude Boudenot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>L\u2019aviation et la flotte japonaises, sans d\u00e9claration de guerre, ont d\u00e9truit la flotte am\u00e9ricaine du Pacifique, le 7\u00a0d\u00e9cembre. C\u2019est la chance des d\u00e9mocraties europ\u00e9ennes qui vont avoir le plus puissant des alli\u00e9s \u2013 mais pas le plus facile, surtout pour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/gaulle-de\">de Gaulle<\/a>, forte personnalit\u00e9, toujours peu appr\u00e9ci\u00e9e du pr\u00e9sident am\u00e9ricain.<\/p>\n<p>En r\u00e9alit\u00e9, Roosevelt voulait lutter contre les pays totalitaires d\u2019Europe. D\u00e8s le 2\u00a0ao\u00fbt 1939, une lettre d\u2019Albert Einstein, savant le plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bre au monde, juif allemand ayant fui le nazisme, l\u2019a convaincu de tout mettre en \u0153uvre pour d\u00e9velopper une bombe atomique (au plutonium). Et surtout d\u2019\u00eatre le premier, avant Hitler\u00a0! Mais le S\u00e9nat et l\u2019opinion publique am\u00e9ricaine restaient isolationnistes \u2013 jusqu\u2019\u00e0 Pearl Harbor. Cette trag\u00e9die touche directement la nation qui se croyait intouchable. Le pays est en deuil\u00a0:\u00a0 2 403 morts Am\u00e9ricains (et 1 178 bless\u00e9s). Les pertes mat\u00e9rielles sont relativement faibles\u00a0: sur les huit cuirass\u00e9s touch\u00e9s par les bombes adverses, six pourront \u00eatre remis en service.<\/p>\n<p>Apr\u00e8s Pearl Harbor, les <a href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/etats-unis\">\u00c9tats-Unis<\/a> entrent en guerre contre le Japon et indirectement contre ses deux alli\u00e9s, Allemagne et Italie, qui lui ont d\u00e9clar\u00e9 la guerre le 11\u00a0d\u00e9cembre. Le premier \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9barquement am\u00e9ricain\u00a0\u00bb se fera en Afrique du Nord, en novembre\u00a01942.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0Comment voulez-vous que je fasse avec un homme qui se prend \u00e0 la fois pour Jeanne d\u2019Arc et Napol\u00e9on\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Franklin Delano <span class=\"caps\">ROOSEVELT<\/span> (1882-1945). <em>La Vie politique en France de 1940 \u00e0 1958<\/em> (1984), Jacques Chapsal<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Le pr\u00e9sident des \u00c9tats-Unis n\u2019\u00e9prouve pas la sympathie d\u2019un Churchill pour le chef de la France libre et de Gaulle doit se battre dans les coulisses de la guerre, pour ne pas \u00eatre syst\u00e9matiquement \u00e9limin\u00e9 des op\u00e9rations.<\/p>\n<p>Cela dit, la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 ces deux personnages de l\u2019histoire de France est d\u2019autant plus juste que Napol\u00e9on est le grand homme de De Gaulle (avec C\u00e9sar et Alexandre), cependant qu\u2019il entretient avec la France un dialogue dont il fait souvent \u00e9tat dans ses M\u00e9moires\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Je suis son fils qui l\u2019appelle [\u2026] J\u2019entends la France me r\u00e9pondre.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\r\n        a .cit-num {\r\n            text-decoration: none !important;\r\n            color: inherit !important;\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De Gaulle et les Alli\u00e9s dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1939-1945), 5e jour. 123 citations en Chronique \u00c0 quelque chose malheur est bon. Pearl Harbor\u00a0: il n\u2019en fallait pas plus, pas moins que cette trag\u00e9die, pour que les USA deviennent nos Alli\u00e9s les plus puissants, dans la guerre devenue v\u00e9ritablement mondiale. Au total, 92 millions [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"iawp_total_views":188,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chronique-citation-du-jour-franklin-delano-roosevelt-seconde-guerre-mondiale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}