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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... poll , perceived Japan as a serious threat that September.86 A Fortune poll for November 1940 showed close to half the respondents endorsing " strong meas- ures against Japan ” and less than a quarter opposed . By then close to 60 per ...
... poll , perceived Japan as a serious threat that September.86 A Fortune poll for November 1940 showed close to half the respondents endorsing " strong meas- ures against Japan ” and less than a quarter opposed . By then close to 60 per ...
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... poll of 9 July 1941 , in Cantril , Public Opinion , 976. Even in a Gallup poll taken on 22 October , only 17 percent wanted immediate entry . Cantril , Public Opinion , 977. The highest record , 27 percent , was reached in a Gallup poll ...
... poll of 9 July 1941 , in Cantril , Public Opinion , 976. Even in a Gallup poll taken on 22 October , only 17 percent wanted immediate entry . Cantril , Public Opinion , 977. The highest record , 27 percent , was reached in a Gallup poll ...
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... poll , NYT , 29 September 1939 , 13 , Cantril , Public Opinion , 775. In an exact breakdown of the April 1941 Fortune poll , one finds 56.1 percent in the negative , 33.0 percent affirmative , and 10.9 percent having no opinion ...
... poll , NYT , 29 September 1939 , 13 , Cantril , Public Opinion , 775. In an exact breakdown of the April 1941 Fortune poll , one finds 56.1 percent in the negative , 33.0 percent affirmative , and 10.9 percent having no opinion ...
Contents
The Many Mansions of Antiinterventionism | 1 |
War Phony and Real | 9 |
Early Hopes for Peace 22 | 21 |
Copyright | |
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