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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... ships , and commodities of war until the French Republic is restored , until the integrity of its empire is assured , until all the lands run over by Hitler are once more vested with full sovereignty , until Rus- sia has returned to ...
... ships , and commodities of war until the French Republic is restored , until the integrity of its empire is assured , until all the lands run over by Hitler are once more vested with full sovereignty , until Rus- sia has returned to ...
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... ships might endanger American neutrality . American vessels themselves might be sunk by mistake . Suppose belligerent nations violated an inter - American declaration , pro- claimed at Panama in October 1939 , by arming their own ...
... ships might endanger American neutrality . American vessels themselves might be sunk by mistake . Suppose belligerent nations violated an inter - American declaration , pro- claimed at Panama in October 1939 , by arming their own ...
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... ships early in 1917 , he said , " The German people had been made insane with anger because it was our guns , our shells , our gas , and our airplanes that were murdering their sons . " 27 Journalist C. Hartley Grattan quickly rushed to ...
... ships early in 1917 , he said , " The German people had been made insane with anger because it was our guns , our shells , our gas , and our airplanes that were murdering their sons . " 27 Journalist C. Hartley Grattan quickly rushed to ...
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... ships to belligerent Bermuda than to neutral Belgium.53 Others specified that a foreign government provide cash before the American- made goods left port , that credits be prohibited to individuals and corpora- tions of belligerent ...
... ships to belligerent Bermuda than to neutral Belgium.53 Others specified that a foreign government provide cash before the American- made goods left port , that credits be prohibited to individuals and corpora- tions of belligerent ...
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... ships to enter combat zones flying the Panamanian flag , it ruled that such transfer of registry was wholly within ... ships into the war zones any more than we do . " Meanwhile , American ships could be transferred to foreign registry ...
... ships to enter combat zones flying the Panamanian flag , it ruled that such transfer of registry was wholly within ... ships into the war zones any more than we do . " Meanwhile , American ships could be transferred to foreign registry ...
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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