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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... military , economic , and geopo- litical assumptions.13 How did anti - interventionists perceive the ideology , armed potential , and territorial aspirations of Germany , the British Empire , Japan , and the Soviet Union ? To what ...
... military , economic , and geopo- litical assumptions.13 How did anti - interventionists perceive the ideology , armed potential , and territorial aspirations of Germany , the British Empire , Japan , and the Soviet Union ? To what ...
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... January to November 1940 ; military advisers Stanley Embick and Truman Smith ; and anglophobe assistant secre- tary of state Adolf A. Berle . 16 Aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh , one of the most famous 2 Introduction.
... January to November 1940 ; military advisers Stanley Embick and Truman Smith ; and anglophobe assistant secre- tary of state Adolf A. Berle . 16 Aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh , one of the most famous 2 Introduction.
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... military intelligence . In the late 1930s , he maintained that war between Germany and the Western powers would be sui- cidal , for a predatory Soviet Union lurked on the sidelines . His wife , Anne Morrow Lindbergh , articulately ...
... military intelligence . In the late 1930s , he maintained that war between Germany and the Western powers would be sui- cidal , for a predatory Soviet Union lurked on the sidelines . His wife , Anne Morrow Lindbergh , articulately ...
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... military leader and Salazar as premier . " Keeping it running will be quite a job even for Adolf Hitler , " it said.60 Father Coughlin spoke of a Europe divided into three sec- tions : a Germanic bloc that would include Austria ...
... military leader and Salazar as premier . " Keeping it running will be quite a job even for Adolf Hitler , " it said.60 Father Coughlin spoke of a Europe divided into three sec- tions : a Germanic bloc that would include Austria ...
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... military state socialism would be extended over the entire continent . A central authority in Berlin would order ... military aspirations in the Western Hemisphere.67 Others did believe , as did Roosevelt , that Hitler wanted world ...
... military state socialism would be extended over the entire continent . A central authority in Berlin would order ... military aspirations in the Western Hemisphere.67 Others did believe , as did Roosevelt , that Hitler wanted world ...
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