| Description |
1 online resource (248 pages) |
| Contents |
Waking to Danger; Contents; Preface; 1 Swastika Rising; 2 The Peace Crusade; 3 Friendless in America; 4 Looking for Hitler; 5 The Red Decade; 6 Sheep among Wolves; Photo Essay Follows Page; 7 The Bottom Line; 8 The Search for Safety; 9 News from Germany; 10 The American Century; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The 1930s were years when Americans struggled to define their country's role in a dangerous world. Opinions were deeply divided and passionately held. Waking to Danger: Americans and Nazi Germany, 1933-1941 traces the evolution of American public opinion about Germany as it spiraled from ignorance and isolationism to a sense of danger and interventionism. This brief, but broad survey fills a gap in the historical literature by bringing together, for the first time, the reactions toward Nazi Germany of a variety of groupsÑpeace advocates, Jews, fascists, communists, churches, the business com |
| Notes |
Waking to Danger; Contents; Preface; 1 Swastika Rising; 2 The Peace Crusade; 3 Friendless in America; 4 Looking for Hitler; 5 The Red Decade; 6 Sheep among Wolves; Photo Essay Follows Page; 7 The Bottom Line; 8 The Search for Safety; 9 News from Germany; 10 The American Century; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
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Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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International relations
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Public opinion
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Public opinion, American
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United States -- Relations -- Germany
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Germany -- Relations -- United States
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United States -- History -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140299
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Germany -- History -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054594
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Germany -- Foreign public opinion, American -- History -- 20th century
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Germany
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780313385032 |
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0313385033 |
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