Storm on the Horizon The Challenge to

Prominent historian Justus Doenecke analyzes the personalities, leading action groups, and major congressional debates surrounding the U.S. decision to participate in World War II.

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

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xiii

List of Acronyms

xvii

A Note to the Reader

xix

Introduction: The Many Mansions of Anti-interventionism

1

(8)

War, Phony and Real

9

(12)

Early Hopes for Peace

21

(8)

A Matter of War Aims

29

(13)

American Goals: An Object of Suspicion

42

(17)

Initial Engagements

59

(24)

The Fall of Western Europe

83

(17)

Protecting the Republic

100

(19)

Military Defense of the Hemisphere

119

(20)

Economic Survival in the Americas

139

(11)

War, Peace, and Elections

150

(15)

Lend-Lease and the ``Futile War''

165

(12)

A Troubled Spring

177

(12)

Great Britain: An Unfit Ally

189

(14)

The British Empire: A Dubious Cause

203

(9)

The Soviets: A Greater Enemy

212

(16)

A Pivotal Summer

228

(13)

Projections of Conflict

241

(12)

Waging Undeclared War

253

(17)

The Domestic Front

270

(15)

The Asian Cauldron

285

(19)

Toward the Pacific War

304

(19)

Conclusion

323

(6)

Notes

329

(172)

Bibliography

501

(26)

Index

527

(24)

About the Author

551

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

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