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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... naval incidents . I could not have been blessed with more perceptive and conscientious readers . It is such generosity that makes the enterprise of scholarship so rewarding . Equally indispensable is my indebtedness to the various ...
... naval incidents . I could not have been blessed with more perceptive and conscientious readers . It is such generosity that makes the enterprise of scholarship so rewarding . Equally indispensable is my indebtedness to the various ...
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... naval strength appeared far su- perior . The French and British would continue to control the seas.72 71 Only one factor was debated : air power . Boake Carter foresaw German fac- tories demolished by British and French bombs ; ten ...
... naval strength appeared far su- perior . The French and British would continue to control the seas.72 71 Only one factor was debated : air power . Boake Carter foresaw German fac- tories demolished by British and French bombs ; ten ...
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... naval bases . 100 Several foes of intervention found the whole situation on the Western front absurd . Hearst's San Francisco Examiner called the conflict " about as senseless as two men quarreling in a boat which is about to carry them ...
... naval bases . 100 Several foes of intervention found the whole situation on the Western front absurd . Hearst's San Francisco Examiner called the conflict " about as senseless as two men quarreling in a boat which is about to carry them ...
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... naval appropria- tion bill of 1938 ; backstage involvement in the Munich conference ; and the current effort to repeal the arms embargo . All such activity , said Beard , proved that the president sought to collaborate with Britain and ...
... naval appropria- tion bill of 1938 ; backstage involvement in the Munich conference ; and the current effort to repeal the arms embargo . All such activity , said Beard , proved that the president sought to collaborate with Britain and ...
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... naval supply base . To John Bassett Moore , not only was the U.S. position unsupported by legal authority ; it was directly contrary to what its own Supreme Court had decided.74 Others similarly found the United States acting in a most ...
... naval supply base . To John Bassett Moore , not only was the U.S. position unsupported by legal authority ; it was directly contrary to what its own Supreme Court had decided.74 Others similarly found the United States acting in a most ...
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14 October 23 October administration AFC Papers AFC Research Bureau Allies American anti-interventionists April army attack August Boake Carter Says Borchard Papers Britain British called Castle Diary CDAAA Chamberlain Chicago Tribune China Christian Century 57 Churchill cited claimed Congressman December defense Doenecke Douglas Stuart Jr Edwin endorsed entry Europe example February fight Fish Flynn Follette Foreign France German Harry Elmer Barnes Hearst Herbert Hoover Hertzberg HFAC Hiram Johnson Hitler Hugh Johnson interventionist January Japan Japanese John Bassett Moore John Haynes Holmes July June Lawrence Dennis Libby Lindbergh Lundeen March military nation naval Nazi neutrality noninterventionists Norman Thomas November NYDN NYWT Peace Action percent Philip La Follette president Republic Reynolds Robert Roosevelt Russia Sargent Scribner's Commentator Senator September 1939 SFRC ships Social Justice Soviet speech Taft testimony Thomas Papers Uncensored United University Vandenberg Villard Washington Wheeler WIL Papers William World York Daily