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From Isolation to War: 1931-1941 (American History Series (Arlington Heights, Ill.).)
From Isolation to War 19311941 - American History Series Arlington Heights, Ill. Author:Justus D. Doenecke, John Edward Wilz In a major revision of this popular text, 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. This Third Edition of our popular text includes entirely new material in... more »cluding 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. 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. Appropriate for use in the U.S. history survey as well as in courses on Twentieth-Century History, American Foreign Diplomacy, and International Relations.« less