In a major revision of this popular text, Dr. Justus Doenecke
integrates scholarly research conducted in the 1990s 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 Japan and the
breaking of diplomatic relations. A final chapter considers the
background of the Pearl Harbor attack, stressing not only the role
of Admiral Yamamoto but the revisionist arguments concerning event,
including the "devil theory" of the president's culpability.
This third edition includes entirely new material including
discussions of Roosevelt's leadership style, the recognition of the
Soviet Union, policy toward Cuba and Mexico, Pan-American
conferences, the 1940 mission of Sumner Welles, the Four Freedoms,
and the U.S. Army victory plan of autumn 1940. Certain other
passages have been expanded, such as those concerning the
background of American anti-interventionism, major peace groups,
the London Economic Conference of 1933, the Ethiopian conflict, the
Spanish Civil War, the Nye Committee, the predicament of Jewish
refugees, the Soviet-Finnish war, FDR's Japan diplomacy and his
last-minute assurances to British ambassador Halifax, and the
latest arguments over Pearl Harbor. Also new to this edition is a
collection of striking photographs.
The third edition of this informative and engaging text-one
enjoyed by instructors and students alike for decades-is
appropriate for use in the U.S. history survey as well as in course
on twentieth-century history, American foreign diplomacy, and
international relations.
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