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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... neutrality legislation and con- scription.12 This book skirts none of these matters but rather puts them in a wider framework , one focusing on underlying military , economic , and geopo- litical assumptions.13 How did anti ...
... neutrality legislation and con- scription.12 This book skirts none of these matters but rather puts them in a wider framework , one focusing on underlying military , economic , and geopo- litical assumptions.13 How did anti ...
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... neutrality policy , supporting above all an embargo on war supplies to any belligerent.2 As late as the summer of 1939 , anti - interventionists controlled Congress . Federal legislation prohib- ited the extension of credits and sale of ...
... neutrality policy , supporting above all an embargo on war supplies to any belligerent.2 As late as the summer of 1939 , anti - interventionists controlled Congress . Federal legislation prohib- ited the extension of credits and sale of ...
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... neutrality and those who would favor some forms of collective security . Indeed , its honorary in- ternational president , educator Emily Greene Balch , favored such nonmilitary forms of international coercion as moral , diplomatic ...
... neutrality and those who would favor some forms of collective security . Indeed , its honorary in- ternational president , educator Emily Greene Balch , favored such nonmilitary forms of international coercion as moral , diplomatic ...
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... neutrality if either party were attacked by a third . A secret codicil was attached that divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence.24 Not surprisingly , American communists endorsed the agreement . The pact , predicted party head ...
... neutrality if either party were attacked by a third . A secret codicil was attached that divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence.24 Not surprisingly , American communists endorsed the agreement . The pact , predicted party head ...
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... neutrality proclamation banning arms and munitions to the USSR , though he maintained that Poland's Jews and White Russians would be better satisfied under Stalin than they had been under either Hitler or the old Polish autocracy . 37 ...
... neutrality proclamation banning arms and munitions to the USSR , though he maintained that Poland's Jews and White Russians would be better satisfied under Stalin than they had been under either Hitler or the old Polish autocracy . 37 ...
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