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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459902003321

Autore

Doenecke Justus D.

Titolo

From isolation to war : 1931-1941 / / Justus D. Doenecke, John E. Wilz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wheeling, Illinois : , : Harlan Davidson, Inc., , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-118-82271-4

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

American History Series

Disciplina

940.53/2273

Soggetti

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations 1933-1945

United States Foreign relations 1929-1933

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Foreword ; Contents ; Preface ; Acknowledgments, Second Edition ; Acknowledgments, First Edition ; Chapter One: In Search of Peace ; Chapter Two: Manchuria ; Chapter Three: Dictators and Neutrality ; Chapter Four: Toward War in Europe ; Chapter Five: Toward War in the Pacific ; Chapter Six: Day of Infamy ; Bibliographical Essay ; Subject Index ; Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

In a major revision of this popular text, Dr. Justus Doenecke integrates scholarly research conducted in the 1990's to offer readers a fresh picture of the major events and historiographical controversies in American diplomacy in the decade before Japan''s attack on Pearl Harbor.  Individual chapters center on the aftermath of World War I, the Manchurian crisis, the expansion of Germany and Japan and the U.S. response, FDR''s policy towards Europe from the Munich conference to his ""shoot-on-sight"" orders, and Roosevelt''s stance toward Asia from the termination of the 1911 trade treaty with