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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... Japan , and the Soviet Union ? To what degree did they envision Nazi Germany as a bulwark against the Soviets ? What role would the United States play in a world increasingly composed of competing economic blocs and military al- liances ...
... Japan , and the Soviet Union ? To what degree did they envision Nazi Germany as a bulwark against the Soviets ? What role would the United States play in a world increasingly composed of competing economic blocs and military al- liances ...
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... Japan is expelled from the continent , until Chinese Communists are finally suppressed , and until Soviet Russia is pushed back within the old Russian borders ? 16 To administration critics , the most Wilsonian of peace aims could be ...
... Japan is expelled from the continent , until Chinese Communists are finally suppressed , and until Soviet Russia is pushed back within the old Russian borders ? 16 To administration critics , the most Wilsonian of peace aims could be ...
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... Japan not to expand anywhere ; we'd give Germany the same orders ; we'd treat the col- ored folks in Africa as kindly as Augustine St. Clare in ' Uncle Tom's Cabin ' treated the slaves in contrast to the wicked Simon Legree . ” Norman ...
... Japan not to expand anywhere ; we'd give Germany the same orders ; we'd treat the col- ored folks in Africa as kindly as Augustine St. Clare in ' Uncle Tom's Cabin ' treated the slaves in contrast to the wicked Simon Legree . ” Norman ...
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... Japanese were right , wrote William R. Castle , in considering Stim- son " their greatest enemy , " continuing that " we need the friendship of Japan . " But Knox , too , appeared threatening . Wheeler accused him , by promoting aid to ...
... Japanese were right , wrote William R. Castle , in considering Stim- son " their greatest enemy , " continuing that " we need the friendship of Japan . " But Knox , too , appeared threatening . Wheeler accused him , by promoting aid to ...
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... equal to that of the British , three and a half times as large as Ger- many's , twice as large as Italy's , and 50 percent larger than Japan's.74 In August 1941 , Wheeler said that he had not found an Protecting the Republic 107.
... equal to that of the British , three and a half times as large as Ger- many's , twice as large as Italy's , and 50 percent larger than Japan's.74 In August 1941 , Wheeler said that he had not found an Protecting the Republic 107.
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