Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002 M07 15 - 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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... fight any kind of war ex- cept an interminable affair of siege , blockade and starvation . Do you want to encourage ... fighting spirit . " There is something phony about this war , " said Senator Borah , coining a famous phrase , for he ...
... fight any kind of war ex- cept an interminable affair of siege , blockade and starvation . Do you want to encourage ... fighting spirit . " There is something phony about this war , " said Senator Borah , coining a famous phrase , for he ...
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... fight.14 Just before he died on 19 January 1940 , Borah told a reporter he expected peace that spring , followed by a general revision of the Versailles treaty.115 Some were wary . As early as October , Herbert Hoover predicted that the ...
... fight.14 Just before he died on 19 January 1940 , Borah told a reporter he expected peace that spring , followed by a general revision of the Versailles treaty.115 Some were wary . As early as October , Herbert Hoover predicted that the ...
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... fighting the American battle . " ' Foes of intervention argued just the opposite . World politics remained dominated by the law of the jungle . Burton B. Kendrick , a historian at the Uni- versity of North Carolina , denied that such ...
... fighting the American battle . " ' Foes of intervention argued just the opposite . World politics remained dominated by the law of the jungle . Burton B. Kendrick , a historian at the Uni- versity of North Carolina , denied that such ...
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... fighting to preserve their supremacy over the " upstart " German nation.25 Ambassador Kennedy cabled Roosevelt that Britain was fighting " for her possessions and a place in the sun just as she has in the past . ” 26 William A. Orton ...
... fighting to preserve their supremacy over the " upstart " German nation.25 Ambassador Kennedy cabled Roosevelt that Britain was fighting " for her possessions and a place in the sun just as she has in the past . ” 26 William A. Orton ...
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... fighting until Austria , Czechoslovakia , the Baltic states , and Albania were restored and secret police eliminated ... fight- ing against " brute force , bad faith , injustice , oppression and persecution . " The New York Daily News ...
... fighting until Austria , Czechoslovakia , the Baltic states , and Albania were restored and secret police eliminated ... fight- ing against " brute force , bad faith , injustice , oppression and persecution . " The New York Daily News ...
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