The Roosevelt Diplomacy and World War II
Author : Robert Dallek
Publisher : Krieger Publishing Company
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Robert Dallek
Publisher : Krieger Publishing Company
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Gaddis Smith
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Written 20 years ago, the first edition of this book sought to present the issues of American diplomacy during World War II, as they were perceived at the time by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his associates. The author has not changed his basic interpretation of events in this second edition, but there is a greater effort to understand Roosevelt's policies. The author has also benefited from the vast amount of documentation and outstanding works of scholarship which have appeared since the first edition. The author has also given more attention to the Third World, especially Latin America, the Middle East, Korea and Indochina. He also discusses American policy toward the development and use of the atomic bomb. ISBN 0-393-34202-X (pbk.): $7.95.
Author : Robert Dallek
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780844605715
Author : Robert A. Divine
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Waldo Heinrichs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 1990-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0199879044
As the first comprehensive treatment of the American entry into World War II to appear in over thirty-five years, Waldo Heinrichs' volume places American policy in a global context, covering both the European and Asian diplomatic and military scenes, with Roosevelt at the center. Telling a tale of ever-broadening conflict, this vivid narrative weaves back and forth from the battlefields in the Soviet Union, to the intense policy debates within Roosevelt's administration, to the sinking of the battleship Bismarck, to the precarious and delicate negotiations with Japan. Refuting the popular portrayal of Roosevelt as a vacillating, impulsive man who displayed no organizational skills in his decision-making during this period, Heinrichs presents him as a leader who acted with extreme caution and deliberation, who always kept his options open, and who, once Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union stalled in July, 1941, acted rapidly and with great determination. This masterful account of a key moment in American history captures the tension faced by Roosevelt, Churchill, Stimson, Hull, and numerous others as they struggled to shape American policy in the climactic nine months before Pearl Harbor.
Author : Patrick J. Hearden
Publisher : DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875805382
While broadly concerned about the nature of New Deal diplomacy, Patrick J. Hearden's Roosevelt Confronts Hitler pays special attention to American policy toward Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1941. Basing his conclusions on information gathered from his extensive research in various archives and private collections, Hearden presents a persuasive reinterpretation of how and why the United States went to war with Germany in 1941. Although President Roosevelt repeatedly claimed in public speeches that Hitler was bent upon world conquest, the question of strategic defense was not the primary factor underlying the American decision to enter the war. Moreover, despite the genuine concern of Roosevelt and his advisors for the plight of the Jews inside the Third Reich, this ethical question was even less important than the issue of national security in prompting the preparation for war. The American decision to enter the war, Hearden argues, was actually based much more upon economic considerations and ideological commitments than on either moral aspirations or military apprehensions. Roosevelt, his advisors, and influential business leaders were primarily concerned about the menace that triumphant Germany would present the free enterprise system in the United States. If Hitler and the Axis powers succeeded in dividing the world into exclusive trade zones, the New Deal planners would have to regulate the American economy to create an internal balance between supply and demand. Convinced that capitalism could not function within the framework of only one country, they chose to fight to keep foreign markets open for surplus American commodities and thereby to preserve entrepreneurial freedom in the United States.
Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2002-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1461699398
A master historian's provocative new interpretation of FDR's role in the coming of World War II. Brilliant. —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American Ways Series.
Author : Raymond Gish O'Connor
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN :
"In January of 1943, at Casablanca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued a statement to the press which became a guiding policy of Allied diplomacy in the Second World War. This statement, demanding the unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy, and Japan, was attacked immediately by those who felt it would prolong the war. Now, three decades later, it is still the subject of heated debate. In this new study, Raymond G. O'Connor views the unconditional surrender policy as one of Roosevelt's great successes. It did not prolong the war, and by eliminating the preconditions for a negotiated peace, and the territorial disputes that accompany them., it helped to maintain the tenous relationship between the three Allied leaders, so important in bringing about the Axis capitulation. Equally important, the policy was a vital instrument in achieving the war's political objectives - objectives the author says Roosevelt understood better than his British counterpart, Winston Churchill. With the availability of new sources, Professor O' Connor has been able to reconsider thoroughly all aspects of the unconditional surrender policy, from its origins and Churchill's role in its formulation to its effects on the victory it helped to bring about."- Publisher.
Author : Robert Dallek
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 31,30 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"Essential reading for those interested in the Roosevelt years."--Political Science Quarterly "The best book that has been written on this important subject."--William Leuchtenburh, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Author : Roger Daniels
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252097645
Having guided the nation through the worst economic crisis in its history, Franklin Delano Roosevelt by 1939 was turning his attention to a world on the brink of war. The second part of Roger Daniels's biography focuses on FDR's growing mastery in foreign affairs. Relying on FDR's own words to the American people and eyewitness accounts of the man and his accomplishments, Daniels reveals a chief executive orchestrating an immense wartime effort. Roosevelt had effective command of military and diplomatic information and unprecedented power over strategic military and diplomatic affairs. He simultaneously created an arsenal of democracy that armed the Allies while inventing the United Nations intended to ensure a lasting postwar peace. FDR achieved these aims while expanding general prosperity, limiting inflation, and continuing liberal reform despite an increasingly conservative and often hostile Congress. Although fate robbed him of the chance to see the victory he had never doubted, events in 1944 assured him that the victory he had done so much to bring about would not be long delayed. A compelling reconsideration of Roosevelt the president and campaigner, The War Years, 1939-1945 provides new views and vivid insights about a towering figure--and six years that changed the world.