Justus D. Doenecke

Storm on the Horizon (eBook, PDF)

The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216230748
• Artikelnr.: 74842870

Autorenporträt

Justus D. Doenecke is professor of history at the New College of University of South Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Many Mansions of Anti-interventionism
Chapter 2 War, Phony and Real
Chapter 3 Early Hopes for Peace
Chapter 4 A Matter of War Aims
Chapter 5 American Goals: An Object of Suspicion
Chapter 6 Initial Engagements
Chapter 7 The Fall of Western Europe
Chapter 8 Protecting the Republic
Chapter 9 Military Defense of the Hemisphere
Chapter 10 Economic Survival in the Americas
Chapter 11 War, Peace, and Elections
Chapter 12 Lend-Lease and the "Future War"
Chapter 13 A Troubled Spring
Chapter 14 Great Britain: An Unfit Ally
Chapter 15 The British Empire: A Dubious Cause
Chapter 16 The Soviets: A Greater Enemy
Chapter 17 A Pivotal Summer
Chapter 18 Projections of Conflict
Chapter 19 Waging Undeclared War
Chapter 20 The Domestic Front
Chapter 21 The Asian Cauldron
Chapter 22 Towards the Pacific War
Chapter 23 Conclusion