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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... foreign policy opponents prior to Pearl Harbor were not simply ' illustrious dunderheads ' or ostriches blind to international dangers . As prophetic critics of both the imperial presidency and unrestrained globalism , Doenecke's ...
... foreign policy opponents prior to Pearl Harbor were not simply ' illustrious dunderheads ' or ostriches blind to international dangers . As prophetic critics of both the imperial presidency and unrestrained globalism , Doenecke's ...
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... Foreign Affairs Committee Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Keep America Out of War Congress National Committee on ... Foreign Relations Committee Weekly Foreign Letter Women's International League for Peace and Freedom , U.S. Section ...
... Foreign Affairs Committee Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Keep America Out of War Congress National Committee on ... Foreign Relations Committee Weekly Foreign Letter Women's International League for Peace and Freedom , U.S. Section ...
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... foreign pol- icy . Gerald P. Nye took a somewhat similar route . A foe of big business and of Wall Street in particular , the maverick Republican from North Dakota fought continually with President Herbert Hoover . Originally friendly ...
... foreign pol- icy . Gerald P. Nye took a somewhat similar route . A foe of big business and of Wall Street in particular , the maverick Republican from North Dakota fought continually with President Herbert Hoover . Originally friendly ...
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... foreign policy . In March 1941 Time claimed that the publisher had converted to interventionism , yet the chain remained sharply critical of the president.19 Though the Scripps - Howard chain featured certain pro - FDR writers , in ...
... foreign policy . In March 1941 Time claimed that the publisher had converted to interventionism , yet the chain remained sharply critical of the president.19 Though the Scripps - Howard chain featured certain pro - FDR writers , in ...
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... foreign policy in the News while supporting it in Collier's magazine.23 Patterson's first cousin , Colonel Robert R. McCormick , published the Chicago Tribune . He veered sharply from Patterson's militant support of the New Deal but ...
... foreign policy in the News while supporting it in Collier's magazine.23 Patterson's first cousin , Colonel Robert R. McCormick , published the Chicago Tribune . He veered sharply from Patterson's militant support of the New Deal but ...
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