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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... Taft ranked as one of the more conservative critics of FDR's foreign policy . A strong critic of the New Deal , the Ohio Re- publican said in 1933 , “ There is very little 1 Introduction: The Many Mansions of Anti-interventionism.
... Taft ranked as one of the more conservative critics of FDR's foreign policy . A strong critic of the New Deal , the Ohio Re- publican said in 1933 , “ There is very little 1 Introduction: The Many Mansions of Anti-interventionism.
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... Taft sympathized with the invaded Poles but saw " no reason why we should run on the field and play quarterback . ” 66 Despite the loss of Poland , many anti - interventionists did not think the Allies would be defeated . The American ...
... Taft sympathized with the invaded Poles but saw " no reason why we should run on the field and play quarterback . ” 66 Despite the loss of Poland , many anti - interventionists did not think the Allies would be defeated . The American ...
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... Taft envisioned any dictator facing countless oc- cupation difficulties.83 Senator Robert Rice Reynolds ( Dem.-N.C. ) concurred , stressing the colossal task Germany would face in holding down the French and British empires.84 Moreover ...
... Taft envisioned any dictator facing countless oc- cupation difficulties.83 Senator Robert Rice Reynolds ( Dem.-N.C. ) concurred , stressing the colossal task Germany would face in holding down the French and British empires.84 Moreover ...
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... Taft wondered , would the U.S. do with eighty mil- lion Germans ? 15 Historian Charles A. Beard asked , Does Congress intend to supply money , ships , and commodities of war until the French Republic is restored , until the integrity of ...
... Taft wondered , would the U.S. do with eighty mil- lion Germans ? 15 Historian Charles A. Beard asked , Does Congress intend to supply money , ships , and commodities of war until the French Republic is restored , until the integrity of ...
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... Taft , for the United States to supply steel , machinery , cotton , alcohol , and nitrate while " our hands are too clean to complete the process of manufacture . " The Ohio senator saw such shipments quite permissible under ...
... Taft , for the United States to supply steel , machinery , cotton , alcohol , and nitrate while " our hands are too clean to complete the process of manufacture . " The Ohio senator saw such shipments quite permissible under ...
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