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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... Sargent , publisher of an anti - interventionist bulletin.26 Several conservative journals opposed involvement . The Saturday Evening Post , which drew well over three million readers in 1941 , published weekly ed- itorials opposing ...
... Sargent , publisher of an anti - interventionist bulletin.26 Several conservative journals opposed involvement . The Saturday Evening Post , which drew well over three million readers in 1941 , published weekly ed- itorials opposing ...
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... Sargent said , “ Capitalist imperialism is now face to face with socialist imperialism . " James D. Mooney , vice president of General Motors , asserted that Germany and Italy were fighting " to keep from being starved to death ...
... Sargent said , “ Capitalist imperialism is now face to face with socialist imperialism . " James D. Mooney , vice president of General Motors , asserted that Germany and Italy were fighting " to keep from being starved to death ...
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... Sargent imag- ined the plan fulfilling the Anglo - Saxon unity schemes of Cecil Rhodes.33 John B. Trevor , president of the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies , included the supposed designs of Scottish - born steel magnate ...
... Sargent imag- ined the plan fulfilling the Anglo - Saxon unity schemes of Cecil Rhodes.33 John B. Trevor , president of the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies , included the supposed designs of Scottish - born steel magnate ...
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... Sargent called international law , as Roosevelt invoked it , " largely the creation of the British with the acquiescence of their satellites to foster British ends and embarrass rebel peoples . " Charles A. Beard found the matter so ...
... Sargent called international law , as Roosevelt invoked it , " largely the creation of the British with the acquiescence of their satellites to foster British ends and embarrass rebel peoples . " Charles A. Beard found the matter so ...
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... Sargent . The Chicago Tribune questioned how far the secretary was will- ing to back up his words . Had the Germans been the offenders , said Social Jus- tice , headlines would ring with government protests . Far more cautious , the New ...
... Sargent . The Chicago Tribune questioned how far the secretary was will- ing to back up his words . Had the Germans been the offenders , said Social Jus- tice , headlines would ring with government protests . Far more cautious , the New ...
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