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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... army in the world ; it was the best . The Allies , wrote columnist Boake Carter , could put three soldiers in the field for every one the Germans could muster . Second , so both Herbert Hoover and Charles A. Lindbergh noted , the ...
... army in the world ; it was the best . The Allies , wrote columnist Boake Carter , could put three soldiers in the field for every one the Germans could muster . Second , so both Herbert Hoover and Charles A. Lindbergh noted , the ...
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... army and foreign office . To the New Republic , Hitler simply wanted to celebrate his victories , not to negotiate with his ene- mies . Several anti - interventionists , including the New York Daily News , put little credence in the ...
... army and foreign office . To the New Republic , Hitler simply wanted to celebrate his victories , not to negotiate with his ene- mies . Several anti - interventionists , including the New York Daily News , put little credence in the ...
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... army . In April 1940 , the New York Daily News went further , declaring that Hitler would have originally settled for Danzig and a passage to East Prussia through the Corridor ; now he might well demand dissolution of the British Empire ...
... army . In April 1940 , the New York Daily News went further , declaring that Hitler would have originally settled for Danzig and a passage to East Prussia through the Corridor ; now he might well demand dissolution of the British Empire ...
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... army and navy , establish forts throughout the continent , and control such strategic seas as Gibraltar and Suez . Various administrative agencies would supervise disarmament , man- dates , nationalities , citizenship , raw materials ...
... army and navy , establish forts throughout the continent , and control such strategic seas as Gibraltar and Suez . Various administrative agencies would supervise disarmament , man- dates , nationalities , citizenship , raw materials ...
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... army crawls on its belly . " 43 Pacifist leader Dorothy Detzer sought the embargoing of " basic war materials , " a category that included oil , cotton , and steel . The Reverend John Haynes Holmes opposed a single " pound of goods ...
... army crawls on its belly . " 43 Pacifist leader Dorothy Detzer sought the embargoing of " basic war materials , " a category that included oil , cotton , and steel . The Reverend John Haynes Holmes opposed a single " pound of goods ...
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