Storm on the horizon : the challenge to American intervention, 1939-1941
During 1939-1941, from the time Germany invaded Poland until Japan attacked Pearl Harbour, the US experienced a debate as intense as any in its history. This work analyzes promient personalities, action groups and congressional debates of the period and places them in a wider framework
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Introduction
the many mansions of anti-interventionism; war, phony and real; early hopes for peace; a matter of war aims; American goals
a object of suspicion; initial engangements; the fall of Western Europe; protecting the republic; military defence of the hemisphere; economic survival in the America's; war, peace and elections; lend-lease and the "Future War"; a troubled spring; Great Britain
an unfit ally; the British Empire
a dubious cause; the Soviets
a greater enemy; a pivotal summer; projections of conflict; towards undecided war; the domestic front; the Asian cauldron; towards the Pacific war