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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... force of close to four and a half million men . The Missouri Republican suggested that just as enlistments were staggered over all twelve months , so too could be the demobilizations.20 Vorys challenged the claim that two - thirds of ...
... force of close to four and a half million men . The Missouri Republican suggested that just as enlistments were staggered over all twelve months , so too could be the demobilizations.20 Vorys challenged the claim that two - thirds of ...
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... force we'll get no more thanks than we got then , and a bill two or three times as large . And if Hitler is not put down we'll face the just and bitter enmity of the strongest military power on earth , and the disdain and derision of ...
... force we'll get no more thanks than we got then , and a bill two or three times as large . And if Hitler is not put down we'll face the just and bitter enmity of the strongest military power on earth , and the disdain and derision of ...
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... force of ten thousand soldiers would be dependent on highly vulnerable supply lines and subject to American fire ... force of even a hundred thousand troops , he said , required 750,000 tons of shipping . With each ship averaging five ...
... force of ten thousand soldiers would be dependent on highly vulnerable supply lines and subject to American fire ... force of even a hundred thousand troops , he said , required 750,000 tons of shipping . With each ship averaging five ...
Contents
A Matter of War Aims | 29 |
An Object of Suspicion | 42 |
Initial Engagements | 59 |
Copyright | |
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