From Isolation to War: 1931-1941(The American History Series)

The new edition of this popular and widely-used American history textbook has been thoroughly updated to include a wealth of new scholarship on American diplomacy in the decade leading up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Features new material on the Washington Conference of 1921-22, early American diplomacy in the Manchurian crisis, the Panay incident, Russia’s invasion of Finland, the destroyer-bases deal, and much more Pays particular attention to Roosevelt's policies towards Jewish refugees, the battle between domestic groups like the America First Committee and Fight for Freedom, and the Welles mission of 1940 Includes concise biographical sketches of major world leaders, including Hoover, FDR, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Tojo Outlines and examines the debates of historians over the wisdom of U.S. policies

Table of Contents:
Preface ix 1 In Search of Peace 1 The Roots of Anti-Interventionism 4 The Disillusionment of the 1920s 7 A Rising Peace Sentiment 13 2 Manchuria 19 The Rise of Imperial Japan 21 Japan Attacks Manchuria 34 The Failure of American Protest 48 3 The Dilemmas of Neutrality 58 Early New Deal Diplomacy 60 The Nye Committee 73 The Spanish Civil War 82 Japan's "China Incident" 90 The Panay Sinking 97 4 Toward War in Europe 105 Prelude to the European War 106 Germany Conquers Western Europe 118 The Destroyer-Bases Deal 128 The Nature of the Axis Threat 137 From H.R. 1776 to the Newfoundland Conference 140 The Undeclared Naval War 154 5 Toward War in the Pacific 163 America Debates Japan's Advances 164 FDR's Freezing Orders 178 Faltering Diplomacy 187 Pacific Diplomacy Evaluated 203 6 Day of Infamy 209 Pearl Harbor Attacked 211 The Revisionist Case Evaluated 220 Germany Declares War on the United States 231 Bibliographical Essay 234 Author Index 261 Subject Index 267 Maps: Manchuria, 1932 20 Europe, 1939 110–111 Western Pacific, 1941 168–169

About the Author :
Justus D. Doenecke is Professor Emeritus of History at the New College of Florida. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry Into World War I (2011), Debating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Foreign Policies, 1933-1945 (2005 with Mark A. Stoler), and Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941 (2003) which was awarded the annual Herbert Hoover Book Award from the Hoover Presidential Library Association as the best book on any topic of American History within the years 1914-1964. The late John E. Wilz was professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was a member of the history faculty from 1958 until his death in 1994. Over the years he served as a mentor to many young historians, and he was the author of numerous books, including In Search for Peace: The Senate Munitions Inquiry, 1934-36 (1963).