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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... entry into World War II is exhaustively researched , broadly conceived , clearly organized , well written , and balanced in its analyses . It is a superb scholarly accomplishment . " --Wayne S. Cole , University of Maryland , College ...
... entry into World War II is exhaustively researched , broadly conceived , clearly organized , well written , and balanced in its analyses . It is a superb scholarly accomplishment . " --Wayne S. Cole , University of Maryland , College ...
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... entry into World War II , but they still speak to subsequent generations as alternative voices from a usable American past . " --J . Garry Clifford , University of Connecticut " Doenecke , a respected historian of the U.S. tradition of ...
... entry into World War II , but they still speak to subsequent generations as alternative voices from a usable American past . " --J . Garry Clifford , University of Connecticut " Doenecke , a respected historian of the U.S. tradition of ...
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... entry into war was not ruled out.75 Certainly Welles's mission appeared all too similar to an earlier venture by Woodrow Wilson's confidant and troubleshooter Colonel E. M. House.76 On 22 February 1916 , House had signed an agreement ...
... entry into war was not ruled out.75 Certainly Welles's mission appeared all too similar to an earlier venture by Woodrow Wilson's confidant and troubleshooter Colonel E. M. House.76 On 22 February 1916 , House had signed an agreement ...
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... entry into the war was otherwise inevitable , he boasted that his plan “ offers the only reasonable promise of overthrowing dictatorship without need of any great American expeditionary force whether in Europe , Africa , Asia or Latin ...
... entry into the war was otherwise inevitable , he boasted that his plan “ offers the only reasonable promise of overthrowing dictatorship without need of any great American expeditionary force whether in Europe , Africa , Asia or Latin ...
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... entry into World War I so revisionist that in October and November 1939 the Chicago Tribune offered excerpts in its Sunday supplements . A convert to intervention , Millis came down squarely on Buell's side though he regarded his vision ...
... entry into World War I so revisionist that in October and November 1939 the Chicago Tribune offered excerpts in its Sunday supplements . A convert to intervention , Millis came down squarely on Buell's side though he regarded his vision ...
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