Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941
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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Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941
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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Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941
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.
Justus D. Doenecke is professor of history at the New College of University of South Florida.
Table of Contents
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
What People are Saying About This
Hans L. Trefousse
Professor Doenecke's new book, "Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941", is by far the most inclusive work on pre-war isolationism ever written. Meticulously researched, easily read, and most informative, it is bound to become the standard study of this subject. — Hans L. Trefousse
George H. Nash
In this extraordinarily well-researched and comprehensive study, Professor Justus Doenecke examines the intellectual underpinnings of the American anti-interventionist movement of 1939-1941. Although much has been written about the bitter isolationsit/interventionist controversy before America's entry into World War II, no one has ever systematically analyzed the anti-interventionists' mindset, motivating ideology, and prejudices...Justus Doenecke fills this gap. — George H. Nash
Walter LaFeber
Doenecke, a respected historian of the U.S. tradition of isolationism, provides an exhaustive record of the most important episode in that tradition--1939-1941. This important work should spur fresh and much needed debate over that entry into war and the larger anti-interventionist tradtion in recent American history. — Walter LaFeber
Wayne S. Cole
Justus Doenecke's study of ideological dimensions of anti-interventionist opposition to American entry into World War II is exhaustively researched, broadly conceived, clearly organized, well written, and balanced and in its analyses. It is a superb scholarly accomplishment. — Wayne S. Cole
J. Garry Clifford
This exhaustive, penetrating study should demonstrate once and for all that FDR's foreign policy opponents prior to Pearl Harbor were not simply 'illustrious dunderheads' or ostriches blind to international dangers. As prophetic critics of both the imperial presidency and unrestrained globalism, Doenecke's nonintervntionists may have lost the 'great debate' over U.S. entry into World War II, but they still speak to subsequent generations as alternative voices from a usable American past. — J. Garry Clifford
Leo P. Ribuffo
As "Storm on the Horizon" amply demonstrates, Justus Doenecke knows more about the so-called isolationists of the pre-World War II era than any other living historian. This comprehensive and even handed book on opposition to American intervention should remain the standard account for generations. — Leo P. Ribuffo
Irwin F. Gellman
Eloquently argued and exhaustively documented, "Storm on the Horizon" traces the principles and practices of the non-interventionists from 1939 to the Pearl Harbor attack. While war ended their opposition, Justus Doenecke, as no scholar before him, demonstrates the logic and resolve of their lost crusade. — Irwin F. Gellman
