Storm on the Horizon The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941

by Doenecke, Justus D.

• ISBN13: 9780742507845
• ISBN10: 074250784X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-22
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Between 1939 and 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 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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
List of Acronyms	p. xvii
A Note to the Reader	p. xix
Introduction: The Many Mansions of Anti-interventionism	p. 1
War, Phony and Real	p. 9
Early Hopes for Peace	p. 21
A Matter of War Aims	p. 29
American Goals: An Object of Suspicion	p. 42
Initial Engagements	p. 59
The Fall of Western Europe	p. 83
Protecting the Republic	p. 100
Military Defense of the Hemisphere	p. 119
Economic Survival in the Americas	p. 139
War, Peace, and Elections	p. 150
Lend-Lease and the "Futile War"	p. 165
A Troubled Spring	p. 177
Great Britain: An Unfit Ally	p. 189
The British Empire: A Dubious Cause	p. 203
The Soviets: A Greater Enemy	p. 212
A Pivotal Summer	p. 228
Projections of Conflict	p. 241
Waging Undeclared War	p. 253
The Domestic Front	p. 270
The Asian Cauldron	p. 285
Toward the Pacific War	p. 304
Conclusion	p. 323
Notes	p. 329
Bibliography	p. 501
Index	p. 527
About the Author	p. 551
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