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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... Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor . Doenecke combines painstaking and meticulous historical research with perceptive insights and an ability to engage the reader's total attention . Storm on the Horizon is particularly recommended ...
... Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor . Doenecke combines painstaking and meticulous historical research with perceptive insights and an ability to engage the reader's total attention . Storm on the Horizon is particularly recommended ...
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... Japanese Relations throughout History " In this extraordinarily well - researched and comprehensive study , Professor Justus Doenecke examines the intellectual underpinnings of the American anti- interventionist movement of 1939–1941 ...
... Japanese Relations throughout History " In this extraordinarily well - researched and comprehensive study , Professor Justus Doenecke examines the intellectual underpinnings of the American anti- interventionist movement of 1939–1941 ...
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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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... Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor , it still maintained its attack.27 Scribner's Commentator , a monthly digest , was even more anti - interven- tionist . Published by Charles S. Payson , husband of millionaire Joan Whitney , and edited by ...
... Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor , it still maintained its attack.27 Scribner's Commentator , a monthly digest , was even more anti - interven- tionist . Published by Charles S. Payson , husband of millionaire Joan Whitney , and edited by ...
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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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