Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000 - 551 pages Between 1939-1941, from the time that Germany invaded Poland until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Americans engaged in a debate as intense as any in U.S. history. In Storm on the Horizon, prominent historian Justus D. Doenecke analyzes the personalities, leading action groups, and major congressional debates surrounding the decision to participate in World War II. Doenecke is the first scholar to place the anti-interventionist movement in a wider framework, by focusing on its underlying military, economic, and geopolitical assumptions. Doenecke addresses key questions such as: how did the anti-interventionists perceive the ideology, armed potential, and territorial aspirations of Germany, the British Empire, Japan, and the Soviet Union? To what degree did they envision Nazi Germany as a bulwark against the Soviet Union? What role would the U.S. play in a world increasingly composed of competing economic blocs and military alliances? Storm on the Horizon is certain to become the standard study of this tumultuous time and will require readers to reevaluate their understanding of the United States entry into World War II. |
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... Villard offered an entire defense policy based on a strict continentalism . In Our Military Chaos ( 1939 ) , he wrote that even if Germany won a European conflict , it would be as unable to send an army to the planet Mars as to the ...
... Villard offered an entire defense policy based on a strict continentalism . In Our Military Chaos ( 1939 ) , he wrote that even if Germany won a European conflict , it would be as unable to send an army to the planet Mars as to the ...
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... Villard's chapter " The Huge Growth of Our Military Forces , " " Would it were true ! " 4 Villard continued his attack in the American Mercury . The army , he main- tained in April 1940 , was wasteful , antiquated , poorly administered ...
... Villard's chapter " The Huge Growth of Our Military Forces , " " Would it were true ! " 4 Villard continued his attack in the American Mercury . The army , he main- tained in April 1940 , was wasteful , antiquated , poorly administered ...
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... Villard on the Present European Situation , " 20 December 1939 , NCPW minutes ; Villard , “ Issues and Men : Collective Security Must Come , ” Nation 149 ( 23 December 1939 ) : 711 ; " De Valera Also Raises His Voice for Peace , " NYDN ...
... Villard on the Present European Situation , " 20 December 1939 , NCPW minutes ; Villard , “ Issues and Men : Collective Security Must Come , ” Nation 149 ( 23 December 1939 ) : 711 ; " De Valera Also Raises His Voice for Peace , " NYDN ...
Contents
The Many Mansions of Antiinterventionism | 1 |
War Phony and Real | 9 |
Early Hopes for Peace 22 | 21 |
Copyright | |
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