On June 10th, 1942, the Ordnungspolizei, the Nazi Order Police, rolled into the Czechoslovakian village of Lidice. Two weeks earlier, the Nazi governor of the region, Reinhard Heydrich, had been attacked when resistance fighters threw …
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How FDR Appeased Stalin and Sowed the Seeds of the Cold War
On the evening of November 29, 1943, American president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin dined together in Tehran, Iran to celebrate the first wartime meeting between the …
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The Failure and Consequences of FDR’s Unconditional Surrender Policy
On the afternoon of January 24, 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a group of reporters on the progress of World War II. The setting was Casablanca, French Morocco, and at Roosevelt’s side was British …
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Rationing, Taxes and Concentration Camps: America’s World War II Homefront
In the debates over America’s role in World War II, non-interventionists warned that with war would come increases in the size of the government and the powers of the presidency. Such growth, they said, would …
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Was America’s War with Japan Avoidable?
Around 12:30 p.m. on December 8, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt rose before a joint session of Congress. Beginning the[…]
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American Foreign Policy and the Coming of World War II
In their arguments for staying out of World War II, non-interventionists claimed that their position was the traditional American stance[…]
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Why Non-Interventionists Opposed American Entry into World War II
It is doubtful that any anti-war movement in American history has been as vilified as those lonely souls who opposed[…]
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A Non-Interventionist Appraisal of World War II: Introduction
In the spring of 2001, syndicated columnist Maureen Dowd expressed her frustration with the World War II generation. That year[…]
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The Illusion of Victory | Thomas Fleming
The Illusion of Victory by Thomas Fleming Quick Review In April 1917, the United States declared war on Germany, officially[…]
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America First | Wayne Cole
America First by Wayne Cole Quick Review The America First Committee, which from 1940 to 1941 opposed American entry into[…]
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