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Back door to war : the Roosevelt foreign policy, 1933-1941
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- Creator
- by Charles Callan Tansill
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition, second printing
- Chicago : Henry Regnery Company, 1952
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 690 pages)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-667) and index.
- American relations with the Weimar Republic -- The Far East in ferment -- Continued friction with Japan points towards inevitable war -- Secretary Stimson produces a pattern of war -- Secretary Hull spurns a Japanese olive branch -- Moscow molds the political pattern in the Far East -- Mussolini looks upon Ethiopia with acquisitive eyes -- Britain and France fear to provoke war over the issue of Ethiopia -- American anticipates the League in exerting economic pressure upon Italy -- Mussolini makes a mockery out of collective security -- Ambassador Dodd finds Berlin an unpleasant spot for a Wilsonian democrat -- America views the Hitler regime with increasing dislike -- Europe fails to find a substitute for Locarno -- The shadow of dictatorship begins to darken the American landscape -- Britain blocks an effort of Roosevelt to find a path to peace -- Hitler takes over Austria as a long-delayed step towards Anschluss -- President Benes postpones too long a policy of Appeasement -- Munich : prelude to Prague -- Hitler takes Czechoslovakia under protective custody -- Russia instigates war in the Far East ; Roosevelt blames Japan -- Japan proposes a joint search for world peace but Hull declines -- Europe moves towards war -- Stalin lights the fuse to World War II -- Roosevelt adopts a more positive policy towards the war in Europe -- Roosevelt seeks a pretext for war with Germany -- Japan is maneuvered into firing the first shot at Pearl Harbor