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Appeasement in Europe - A Reassessment of U.S. Policies (Hardcover, New)
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Appeasement in Europe - A Reassessment of U.S. Policies (Hardcover, New)
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This collection of essays representing new thought on U.S.
appeasement policy in 1930's Europe enlarges the traditional focus
of research beyond United States-German relations by investigating
American appeasement policy toward different nations. Zeroing in on
the ideology of policymakers and the influences of various groups
on the development of appeasement policy during the Roosevelt
administration, the essays pose new questions about the role of
antibolshevism, examine appeasement as one part of the quest for
stability and peace in Europe, and provide different and
illuminating insights not only on appeasement but also on the
nature of U.S. foreign policy prior to World War II. The new
scholarship presented here contributes to a more complete
understanding of how the United States responded to the challenge
of fascism in Europe during the 1930s. Schmitz's introduction
defines appeasement and discusses why and how the policy was
formulated and in what respects it differed from the policy of
Great Britain. The book outlines European political conditions of
the period and how U.S. appeasement policy sought to prevent German
and Italian aggression by either applying economic pressure or
offering incentives for cooperation with Western democracies. In
the first chapter by Wayne S. Cole, the three distinct schools of
historical interpretation that have emerged to explain U.S.
appeasement policy are reviewed and assessed. Where as the
ideological dimensions of appeasement have been long overlooked by
historians, Douglas Little's chapter on the British and American
responses to the Spanish Civil War addresses the problem of how to
contain the right without aiding Soviet foreign policy. Chapter
three, by Jane Karoline Vieth, reexamines the crucial events
leading up to the Munich agreement and its aftermath through a
study of the thoughts and actions of Neville Chamberlain,
Roosevelt, and Joseph P. Kennedy, and their critics. In chapter
four, Schmitz investigates how prior American experience with
Fascist Italy influenced U.S. policy toward Nazi Germany and
motivated attempts to use Mussolini as a moderating force on
Hitler. Chapter four also deals with material that is crucial for
understanding American policy: the question of Roosevelt's response
to British appeasement. The concluding essay by Richard A. Harrison
examines possible U.S. and British alternatives to Chamberlain's
appeasement policies that could have been employed. Appeasement in
Europe will aid historians, students, and informed general readers
in attaining a more complete understanding of American appeasement
policy within the broader context of U.S. diplomacy during the
1930s.
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