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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... endorsed FDR and backed much of his earlier legislation , though by 1937 he broke with the New Deal over such mat ... endorsing three out of four of his election bids while being more radical on such matters as labor . ? In the House ...
... endorsed FDR and backed much of his earlier legislation , though by 1937 he broke with the New Deal over such mat ... endorsing three out of four of his election bids while being more radical on such matters as labor . ? In the House ...
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... endorsement of aid to Britain with calls for a negotiated peace . Frank Hanighen , its Wash- ington correspondent , had gained prominence as coauthor of Merchants of Death ( 1934 ) , a muckraking account of the global munitions industry ...
... endorsement of aid to Britain with calls for a negotiated peace . Frank Hanighen , its Wash- ington correspondent , had gained prominence as coauthor of Merchants of Death ( 1934 ) , a muckraking account of the global munitions industry ...
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... endorse limited aid to Britain and to hold Roo- sevelt accountable to his antiwar pledges . Only by combining a program of absolute nonparticipation with promises of a welfare state or the annexation of the entire continent could the ...
... endorse limited aid to Britain and to hold Roo- sevelt accountable to his antiwar pledges . Only by combining a program of absolute nonparticipation with promises of a welfare state or the annexation of the entire continent could the ...
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... endorsed the agreement . The pact , predicted party head Earl Browder , would break the Axis , while commentator Theodore Draper alleged that the pact had temporarily shattered " the ap- peasement front . " 25 Conversely , Father ...
... endorsed the agreement . The pact , predicted party head Earl Browder , would break the Axis , while commentator Theodore Draper alleged that the pact had temporarily shattered " the ap- peasement front . " 25 Conversely , Father ...
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... endorsed negotiation were much applauded . There was , maintained John Haynes Holmes , more peace sentiment in both Britain and France than the American press acknowledged.19 Anti - interventionists gave much attention to Lloyd George's ...
... endorsed negotiation were much applauded . There was , maintained John Haynes Holmes , more peace sentiment in both Britain and France than the American press acknowledged.19 Anti - interventionists gave much attention to Lloyd George's ...
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