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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... a new Ver- sailles , he would stress four basic freedoms : freedoms of speech and religion , freedom from fear , and freedom of trade and access to raw materials.67 Early in 1940 , Roosevelt initiated more peace moves . 26 Chapter 2.
... a new Ver- sailles , he would stress four basic freedoms : freedoms of speech and religion , freedom from fear , and freedom of trade and access to raw materials.67 Early in 1940 , Roosevelt initiated more peace moves . 26 Chapter 2.
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... speech supposedly made by Walther Darré , sometime late in 1939 , in which Hitler's minister of agriculture said , “ We will introduce ... a new aristocracy of German masters .... We have actually in mind a mod- ern form of medieval ...
... speech supposedly made by Walther Darré , sometime late in 1939 , in which Hitler's minister of agriculture said , “ We will introduce ... a new aristocracy of German masters .... We have actually in mind a mod- ern form of medieval ...
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... speech on 7 November 1939 , Lord Halifax , Britain's foreign min- ister , gave his rendition of British war aims , claiming that his nation was fight- ing against " brute force , bad faith , injustice , oppression and persecution ...
... speech on 7 November 1939 , Lord Halifax , Britain's foreign min- ister , gave his rendition of British war aims , claiming that his nation was fight- ing against " brute force , bad faith , injustice , oppression and persecution ...
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... speech that Virgil Jordan , president of the National Industrial Conference Board , gave on 10 December 1940 to the Investment Bankers Association , meeting in Hollywood , Florida . The United States , he said , was committed - if ...
... speech that Virgil Jordan , president of the National Industrial Conference Board , gave on 10 December 1940 to the Investment Bankers Association , meeting in Hollywood , Florida . The United States , he said , was committed - if ...
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... speech expounded several major arguments used by the bill's foes . The proposal would endanger the United States : " The spy , the dynamite , and the air bomb will have standing invitations to visit the munitions plants . ” The U.S. ...
... speech expounded several major arguments used by the bill's foes . The proposal would endanger the United States : " The spy , the dynamite , and the air bomb will have standing invitations to visit the munitions plants . ” The U.S. ...
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