This is more of an opinion question, but if you have an american teacher then you might want to say yes. After japan attacked the us in dec7, hitler soon delared war on america, this was during the time they had reached the gates of moskow. and have been making advances into north africa. They soon got stopped however by the british in al alemain. it wasn't untill in the later year of 1942 did they start opration torch, so I would say no.
Rene Decartes was a French philosopher born in 1596 a time when many long held benefits where changing. His new way of thinking led him to decide to doubt everything until he could prove it. His goal was to achieve certainity through methodical and logical questioning.