Read complete books and articles on: U.S. Neutrality before World War II

Neutrality Act - law passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Aug., 1935. It was designed to keep the United States out of a possible European war by banning shipment of war materiel to belligerents at the discretion of the President and by forbidding U.S. citizens from traveling on belligerent vessels except at their own risk. The demand for this

9 of the Best Books and Articles on: U.S. Neutrality before World War II

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America First: The Battle against Intervention, 1940-41 » Read Now
by Wayne S. Cole. 305 pgs.

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No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the United States Entry into World War II » Read Now
by Bruce M. Russett. 112 pgs.

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There is, in a post-Cold War climate, a great need for an active, engaged U.S. foreign policy. Isolationism is not a viable solution. Yet given the limits of American power and wisdom, an engaged policy has to be conducted in a multilateral framework, informed by criticisms as well as agreement from...
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There is, in a post-Cold War climate, a great need for an active, engaged U.S. foreign policy. Isolationism is not a viable solution. Yet given the limits of American power and wisdom, an engaged policy has to be conducted in a multilateral framework, informed by criticisms as well as agreement from other countries, and carried out with their active cooperation in multilateral institutions. Published at the height of the Vietnam War, No Clear and Present Danger argues that if the Vietnam War derived in substantial part from an overconfident and unilateral interpretation of history, that is a mistake from which we can still learn.
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Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign against American "Neutrality" in World War II » Read Now
by Nicholas John Cull. 280 pgs.

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"British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job." So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolationism to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the...
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"British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job." So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolationism to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the moment it realized that all was lost without American aid, the British Government employed a host of persuasive tactics to draw the US to its rescue. With the help of talents as varied as those of matinee idol Leslie Howard, Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin and society photographer Cecil Beaton, no section of America remained untouched and no method--from Secret Service intrigue to the publication of horrifying pictures of Nazi atrocities--remained untried. The British sought and won the support of key journalists and broadcasters, including Edward R. Murrow, Dorothy Thompson and Walter Winchell; Hollywood film makers also played a willing part. Cull details these and other propaganda activities, covering the entire range of the British effort. A fascinating story of how a foreign country provoked America's involvement in its greatest war, Selling War will appeal to all those interested in the modern cultural and political history of Britain and the United States.
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War Propaganda and the United States (1940) (Chap. II "The Greatest Neutral") » Read Now
by Harold Lavine, James Wechsler. 363 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...America marched to war. Democracy moves...dawn of the New World Order. True...violate Belgian neutrality. Here the Allied...drifting into World War II, only...
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Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence » Read Now
by Francis L. Loewenheim, Harold D. Langley, Manfred Jonas. 807 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...that office came in the fall. Just a few hours before Marshall took his oath of office, Hitler invaded Poland and World War II began. During his first months in office...
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American Neutrality, Trial and Failure (1940) » Read Now
by Charles G. Fenwick. 194 pgs.

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...the long course of the World War...distinguished from the "neutrality" provisions of the Joint...itself was abusing the neutrality of Chile by a pretense...International...
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The Neutrality Policy of the United States (1936) » Read Now
by Julia E. Johnsen. 274 pgs.

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...Story of Norway and the World war . A. N. Rygg...91. Jl. 15. American neutrality and the European war...7:11. Ja. 11, 36. Neutrality: all the world is divided into two...
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Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle against American Intervention in World War II » Read Now
by Wayne S Cole. 276 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...intervention in World War II. Bibliography: p. I. World War, 1939-1945 United...United State Neutrality. 3. Lindbergh...until the close of World War II, in 1945...
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American Neutrality and the Spanish Civil War » Read Now
by Allen Guttmann. 115 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...neutral while war rages anywhere...a peaceful world be won by force...20 II. THE EMBARGO...Pro-Fascist Neutrality 31...the western world, as did the Spanish war. Although...