… In mid-June 1940, as Paris was falling, the Gallup Poll offered Americans four options about how much aid should be provided to England and France. Despite a loud isolationist bloc, an overwhelming 73 percent of those polled supported doing “everything possible to help England and France except go to […] Read more »
Polls Show the Public Is Willing to Sacrifice for Ukraine. History Suggests Biden Shouldn’t Count On It.
You can understand why the White House would welcome a new Reuters poll finding more than three in five Americans say they’d “willingly” pay more at the gas pump to support Ukraine in its war with Russia. Of course, Americans also say they plan to exercise more, eat more vegetables […] Read more »
Gallup Vault: U.S. Opinion and the Start of World War II
On Sept. 1, 1939, after previously seizing Austria and Czechoslovakia, Nazi Germany invaded neighboring Poland, resulting in Britain and France declaring war on Germany and thus kicking off World War II in Europe. As all of this was unfolding, in a poll conducted Sept. 1-6, 1939, Gallup asked Americans to […] Read more »
American Public Opinion and the Holocaust
Americans rarely agree as overwhelmingly as they did in November 1938. Just two weeks after Nazi Germany coordinated a brutal nationwide attack against Jews within its own borders — an event known as “Kristallnacht” — Gallup asked Americans: “Do you approve or disapprove of the Nazi treatment of Jews in […] Read more »
Fewer in U.S. See Japan as an Economic Threat
On the 75th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, and decades after Japan’s economy grew exponentially following World War II, most Americans no longer consider Japan an economic threat to the U.S. Twenty-four percent of Americans say Japan is an economic threat, down sharply from 77% in 1991. […] Read more »
70 years after Hiroshima, opinions have shifted on use of atomic bomb
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of people – many instantly, others from the effects of radiation. Death estimates range from 66,000 to 150,000. This first use of a nuclear weapon by any nation has […] Read more »