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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... France had declared war on Germany , thus turning the Poland in- vasion into World War II . Hitler justified his attack on the grounds that the Poles would not cede the German - speaking areas of Danzig and the Polish Corridor.1 Once ...
... France had declared war on Germany , thus turning the Poland in- vasion into World War II . Hitler justified his attack on the grounds that the Poles would not cede the German - speaking areas of Danzig and the Polish Corridor.1 Once ...
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... France , accusing them of foolishly encouraging Polish resist- ance . Such critics pointed to one Allied assurance to Poland after another , each increasing the degree of commitment . Although France had entered into a formal alliance ...
... France , accusing them of foolishly encouraging Polish resist- ance . Such critics pointed to one Allied assurance to Poland after another , each increasing the degree of commitment . Although France had entered into a formal alliance ...
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... France for remaining to- tally inert during the German invasion.58 Joseph P. Kennedy asserted England would rather " sell 100 Polands down the river than risk the life of a British soldier or the loss of a British pound . ” Even if ...
... France for remaining to- tally inert during the German invasion.58 Joseph P. Kennedy asserted England would rather " sell 100 Polands down the river than risk the life of a British soldier or the loss of a British pound . ” Even if ...
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... France , maintained Boake Carter , dominated the world's entire financial resources and 70 percent of its material ones.78 As Hoover noted , the Allied nations possessed 115 million people , Germany only 80 million . In regard to ...
... France , maintained Boake Carter , dominated the world's entire financial resources and 70 percent of its material ones.78 As Hoover noted , the Allied nations possessed 115 million people , Germany only 80 million . In regard to ...
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... France , suggested the publisher in March 1940 , should place themselves under such capable " war dictators " as French foreign minister Edouard Daladier , then secure Turkish support and attack through Italy , thereby assuring control ...
... France , suggested the publisher in March 1940 , should place themselves under such capable " war dictators " as French foreign minister Edouard Daladier , then secure Turkish support and attack through Italy , thereby assuring control ...
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