From Isolation to War

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).

• Preface ix1 In Search of Peace 1The Roots of Anti-Interventionism 4The Disillusionment of the 1920s 7A Rising Peace Sentiment 132 Manchuria 19The Rise of Imperial Japan 21Japan Attacks Manchuria 34The Failure of American Protest 483 The Dilemmas of Neutrality 58Early New Deal Diplomacy 60The Nye Committee 73The Spanish Civil War 82Japan's "China Incident" 90The Panay Sinking 974 Toward War in Europe 105Prelude to the European War 106Germany Conquers Western Europe 118The Destroyer-Bases Deal 128The Nature of the Axis Threat 137From H.R. 1776 to the Newfoundland Conference 140The Undeclared Naval War 1545 Toward War in the Pacific 163America Debates Japan's Advances 164FDR's Freezing Orders 178Faltering Diplomacy 187Pacific Diplomacy Evaluated 2036 Day of Infamy 209Pearl Harbor Attacked 211The Revisionist Case Evaluated 220Germany Declares War on the United States 231Bibliographical Essay 234Author Index 261Subject Index 267Maps: Manchuria, 1932 20Europe, 1939 110–111Western Pacific, 1941 168–169