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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... Lawrence and Dora Dennis . Adria Holmes Katz has given me permission to cite papers from the collection of John Haynes Holmes . At New College of the University of South Florida , I have benefited from superb academic leadership ; again ...
... Lawrence and Dora Dennis . Adria Holmes Katz has given me permission to cite papers from the collection of John Haynes Holmes . At New College of the University of South Florida , I have benefited from superb academic leadership ; again ...
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... Lawrence Dennis , former infantry officer , lower - level diplomat , and financial expert . By 1934 , Dennis saw salvation from the Great Depression lying in the corporate state . He was not afraid to use the term fascism in es- pousing ...
... Lawrence Dennis , former infantry officer , lower - level diplomat , and financial expert . By 1934 , Dennis saw salvation from the Great Depression lying in the corporate state . He was not afraid to use the term fascism in es- pousing ...
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... Lawrence Dennis , " the British decided six months later to forbid him to use the keys . " 22 According to journalist William Henry Chamberlin , France had missed its opportunity to crush Germany single - handedly during the Rhineland ...
... Lawrence Dennis , " the British decided six months later to forbid him to use the keys . " 22 According to journalist William Henry Chamberlin , France had missed its opportunity to crush Germany single - handedly during the Rhineland ...
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... Lawrence Dennis and V. D. Gravenhoff denied that any Ger- man leader advocated " lightning war " against the Allies . Rather , Germany's " extremely logical " plan was based on submarine and air offensives against Al- lied shipping and ...
... Lawrence Dennis and V. D. Gravenhoff denied that any Ger- man leader advocated " lightning war " against the Allies . Rather , Germany's " extremely logical " plan was based on submarine and air offensives against Al- lied shipping and ...
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... Lawrence Dennis and Boake Carter praised German rule in the new col- laborationist state of Slovakia for granting national autonomy and fostering high living standards.50 Some saw more sweeping goals . Barnes found Germany wanting ...
... Lawrence Dennis and Boake Carter praised German rule in the new col- laborationist state of Slovakia for granting national autonomy and fostering high living standards.50 Some saw more sweeping goals . Barnes found Germany wanting ...
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