Summary Of Westbrook's Why We Fought

In Westbrook’s Why We Fought, he makes a strong argument on how most people in the United States viewed the Axis powers, and more importantly Japan as real threat to their way of life. People were told that Japan was not only different that it was a country that embodied everything that the United States stood for, albeit that changed during the war. Not only that, but Westbrook mentions the differences between the Germans and the Japanese varied greatly, “The Nazis were bad Germans, to be judged by standards Americans shared with good Germans, but the Japanese were another matter. They were, as people, living in a different ethical universe.”(Westbrook 15). Americans viewed Japan as an alien country where religion and political ideologies