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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... Robert S. Wood of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library at West Branch , Iowa ; Milorad M. Drachkovitch , Robert Hessen , Charles Palm , Adorjan I. de Galffy , and Elena Danielson , all of the Hoover Institution on War , Revolution ...
... Robert S. Wood of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library at West Branch , Iowa ; Milorad M. Drachkovitch , Robert Hessen , Charles Palm , Adorjan I. de Galffy , and Elena Danielson , all of the Hoover Institution on War , Revolution ...
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... Robert Marion La Follette Jr. ( Prog . - Wis . ) , remained firmly in the Roosevelt camp , endorsing three out of four of his election bids while being more radical on such matters as labor . ? In the House , similar diversity existed ...
... Robert Marion La Follette Jr. ( Prog . - Wis . ) , remained firmly in the Roosevelt camp , endorsing three out of four of his election bids while being more radical on such matters as labor . ? In the House , similar diversity existed ...
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... Robert M. La Follette Jr. and his brother , former Wisconsin governor Philip La Follette.31 It served as a refuge for such exiles from interventionist journals as publisher Oswald Gar- rison Villard , who had just resigned from the ...
... Robert M. La Follette Jr. and his brother , former Wisconsin governor Philip La Follette.31 It served as a refuge for such exiles from interventionist journals as publisher Oswald Gar- rison Villard , who had just resigned from the ...
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... Robert Rice 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 ...
... Robert Rice 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 ...
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... Robert La Follette Jr. sus- pected that London sought to replace Germany's regime with one that would leave British trade and interests in southeastern Europe untouched . New Masses editor Joseph Starobin found the war motivated by ...
... Robert La Follette Jr. sus- pected that London sought to replace Germany's regime with one that would leave British trade and interests in southeastern Europe untouched . New Masses editor Joseph Starobin found the war motivated by ...
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