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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... Reynolds ( Dem.-N.C. ) concurred , stressing the colossal task Germany would face in holding down the French and British empires.84 Moreover , there were the punative lessons of history , as shown by ill - fated would - be conquerors ...
... Reynolds ( Dem.-N.C. ) concurred , stressing the colossal task Germany would face in holding down the French and British empires.84 Moreover , there were the punative lessons of history , as shown by ill - fated would - be conquerors ...
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... Reynolds spoke of Russia " creeping down " on Persia and India.130 Congressman George A. Dondero ( Rep . - Mich . ) suspected Soviet designs on China and the Philippines . Norman Thomas warned of " a kind of world hegemony . " By the ...
... Reynolds spoke of Russia " creeping down " on Persia and India.130 Congressman George A. Dondero ( Rep . - Mich . ) suspected Soviet designs on China and the Philippines . Norman Thomas warned of " a kind of world hegemony . " By the ...
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... Reynolds blamed the British for sending " a million sons of French mothers to death " to provide the con- tinued superiority of its empire . In March 1941 , Nye noted that British troops were currently occupying Iceland , Crete , and ...
... Reynolds blamed the British for sending " a million sons of French mothers to death " to provide the con- tinued superiority of its empire . In March 1941 , Nye noted that British troops were currently occupying Iceland , Crete , and ...
Page 68
... Reynolds denied Germany had any motive for sinking the boat ; at best , such an act “ could only further in- flame the world , and particularly America , against Germany , with no appre- ciable profits from the sinking . " Conversely ...
... Reynolds denied Germany had any motive for sinking the boat ; at best , such an act “ could only further in- flame the world , and particularly America , against Germany , with no appre- ciable profits from the sinking . " Conversely ...
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... Reynolds stated , they " sound very much like many things we have heard over the radio from any people in high office from time to time . " 116 He and Fish introduced resolutions calling for a full investigation.117 At first the New ...
... Reynolds stated , they " sound very much like many things we have heard over the radio from any people in high office from time to time . " 116 He and Fish introduced resolutions calling for a full investigation.117 At first the New ...
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