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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... Harry Elmer Barnes , so provocative that he contributed exclusively to the New York World - Telegram . A prolific historian and sociologist , Introduction 3.
... Harry Elmer Barnes , so provocative that he contributed exclusively to the New York World - Telegram . A prolific historian and sociologist , Introduction 3.
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... Harry Elmer Barnes found Germany's formal demands " very reason- able . " Frank C. Waldrop of the Washington Times - Herald suggested that Poland should have linked itself with either Russia or Germany and have de- clared Warsaw an open ...
... Harry Elmer Barnes found Germany's formal demands " very reason- able . " Frank C. Waldrop of the Washington Times - Herald suggested that Poland should have linked itself with either Russia or Germany and have de- clared Warsaw an open ...
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... E. Borah ( Rep . - Idaho ) , who referred to " the dismembered body of Czechoslovakia , the only real republic in ... Harry Elmer Barnes went further . He conceded the Soviet Union was guilty of aggression but asserted that it was the ...
... E. Borah ( Rep . - Idaho ) , who referred to " the dismembered body of Czechoslovakia , the only real republic in ... Harry Elmer Barnes went further . He conceded the Soviet Union was guilty of aggression but asserted that it was the ...
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... Harry Elmer Barnes cited socialist writer Max Nomad in claiming that Poland's regime was " hated by the ma- jority of its own people . " According to the Christian Century , civil liberties had ceased to exist when General Joseph ...
... Harry Elmer Barnes cited socialist writer Max Nomad in claiming that Poland's regime was " hated by the ma- jority of its own people . " According to the Christian Century , civil liberties had ceased to exist when General Joseph ...
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... Harry Elmer Barnes , no " reasonable man " could object to colonial restitution or an economic conference . In endorsing " a peace without victory , " Barnes called for a world organization potent enough to deal with the " tough ...
... Harry Elmer Barnes , no " reasonable man " could object to colonial restitution or an economic conference . In endorsing " a peace without victory , " Barnes called for a world organization potent enough to deal with the " tough ...
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