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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... Chicago Tribune . He veered sharply from Patterson's militant support of the New Deal but shared his opposition to the president's overseas policies . Possessing a daily circulation in 1940 of close to a million , the Tribune was the ...
... Chicago Tribune . He veered sharply from Patterson's militant support of the New Deal but shared his opposition to the president's overseas policies . Possessing a daily circulation in 1940 of close to a million , the Tribune was the ...
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... Chicago Tribune argued that Hitler had sought war , whereas Britain desired only peace and the integrity of Poland . The socialist Call conceded the legitimacy of Germany's claim to Danzig and the Corridor but found . Hitler's attack ...
... Chicago Tribune argued that Hitler had sought war , whereas Britain desired only peace and the integrity of Poland . The socialist Call conceded the legitimacy of Germany's claim to Danzig and the Corridor but found . Hitler's attack ...
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... Chicago Tribune : the United States had not created the Danzig sit- uation ; it therefore had no stake in it . Even if the U.S. so desired , it could not eject Hitler from the old free city of Danzig , much less force Stalin to return ...
... Chicago Tribune : the United States had not created the Danzig sit- uation ; it therefore had no stake in it . Even if the U.S. so desired , it could not eject Hitler from the old free city of Danzig , much less force Stalin to return ...
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... Chicago Tribune : " The Winner , Red Josef . " 122 But liberal noninterventionists too saw Stalin as the victor.123 Norman Thomas found the German dictator doing " the fighting , ” the Soviet dictator “ the annexing . ' " 124 Even ...
... Chicago Tribune : " The Winner , Red Josef . " 122 But liberal noninterventionists too saw Stalin as the victor.123 Norman Thomas found the German dictator doing " the fighting , ” the Soviet dictator “ the annexing . ' " 124 Even ...
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... Chicago Tribune , Germany sought recognition of its conquest of Poland and economic leadership in southeastern Europe , perhaps in Scandi- navia as well . The German people , said Villard , would accept reduced sover- eign entity for ...
... Chicago Tribune , Germany sought recognition of its conquest of Poland and economic leadership in southeastern Europe , perhaps in Scandi- navia as well . The German people , said Villard , would accept reduced sover- eign entity for ...
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