Везде
The United States and the Rising Nazi Threat, 1933—1938
Table of contents
Annotation Estimate Publication content
References Comments
Share
QR
Metrics
The United States and the Rising Nazi Threat, 1933—1938
Annotation
PII
S207987840006087-4-1
DOI
10.18254/S207987840006087-4
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
Authors
Vladimir Pechatnov 
ORCID: 0000-0001-6733-031X
Affiliation: MGIMO University
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Edition
Volume 10 Issue 5 (79)
Abstract

Based on primary sources and historiography the article presents an analysis of how U.S. military and diplomacy perceived and responded to the rising threat from the Nazi Germany in 1933—1938. The emphasis is laid on less known aspects of this reaction related to U.S. diplomatic and intelligence activities during the Sudeten crisis of 1938. Of special interest are previously little noticed dispatches from U.S. military attaches in Europe (“G-2”) buried in Henry Morgenthau Diaries collection at Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (Hyde Park, New York). It is demonstrated that despite being well informed about the seriousness of the Nazi threat by American diplomats and Army intelligence the official Washington pursued the course of non involvement in European crisis thus contributing to the appeasement of the aggressor. At the same time the Sudeten crisis provided a strong push to U.S. military preparations for the coming world war.

Keywords
Nazi Germany, appeasement, the Sudeten crisis, the Munich conference, U. S. diplomacy and intelligence
Received
24.04.2019
Publication date
15.07.2019
Number of characters
58150
Number of purchasers
118
Views
2681
Readers community rating
0.0 (0 votes)
Cite Download pdf 200 RUB / 1.0 SU

To download PDF you should pay the subscribtion

Full text is available to subscribers only
Subscribe right now
Only article and additional services
Subscription benefits
200 RUB / 1.0 SU
Whole issue and additional services
Subscription benefits
1000 RUB / 10.0 SU
All issues and additional services for 2019
Subscription benefits
2500 RUB / 50.0 SU

References

1. «…Velikij krizis vot-vot nachnetsya». Iz donesenij amerikanskoj voennoj razvedki v 1935—1941 gg.». // Velikaya pobeda / pod red. S. E. Naryshkina i A. V. Torkunova. M., 2011, T. 7.

2. Dodd U. Eh. Dnevnik posla, 1933—1938. M.,1964.

3. Egorova N. I. Izolyatsionizm i evropejskaya politika SShA. M., 1995.

4. Mal'kov V. L. Velikij Ruzvel't. «Lis v l'vinoj shkure». M., 2011.

5. Moskva — Vashington: politika i diplomatiya Kremlya, 1921—1941. Sbornik dokumentov: v 3 tt. / otv. red. G. N. Sevost'yanov. T. 3: 1933—1941. M., 2009.

6. Naumov A. O. Diplomaticheskaya bor'ba v Evrope nakanune Vtoroj mirovoj vojny. M., 2007.

7. Sevost'yanov G. N. Evropejskij krizis i pozitsiya SShA, 1938—1939. M., 1992.

8. Sevost'yanov G. N. Moskva — Vashington: Diplomaticheskie otnosheniya, 1933—1936. M., 2002.

9. Sovetsko-amerikanskie otnosheniya. 1934—1939 / pod red. G. N. Sevost'yanova. M., 2003.

10. Troyanovskij O. A. Cherez gody i rasstoyaniya. Istoriya odnoj sem'i. M., 1997.

11. Bernstein B. (Ed.). Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History. New York, 1968.

12. Brietman R. (Ed.). Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932—1935. New York, 2009.

13. Bullitt O (Ed.). For the President Personal and Secret: Correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and William C. Bullitt. Boston, 1972.

14. Dallek R. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1933—1945. New York, 1979.

15. Etzold T. Why America Fought Germany in World War II. St. Louis, 1973.

16. Gaddis J. Surprise, Security, and the American Experience. Cambridge, 2004.

17. Gardner L. Economic Aspects of New Deal Diplomacy. Madison, 1964.

18. Guinsburg Th. The Pursuit of Isolationism in the United State Senate from Versailles to Pearl Harbor. New York, 1982.

19. Kinsella W. Leadership in Isolation: FDR and the Origins of the Second World War. Cambridge, 1978.

20. Langer W. and Gleason E. The Challenge to Isolation, 1937—1940: The World Crisis and American Foreign Policy. New York, 1952.

21. Offner A. American Appeasement: United States Foreign Policy and Germany, 1933—1938. Cambridge, 1969.

22. Offner A. Appeasement Revisited: The United States, Great Britain, and Germany, 1933—1940 // The Journal of American History. Vol. 64. Issue 2. September 1977.

23. Pepper C. Eyewitness to American Century. San Diego, 1987.

24. Reynolds D. From Munich to Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt’s America and the Origins of the Second World War. Chicago, 2001.

25. Roosevelt E. (Ed.). FDR: His Personal Letters, 1928—1945. Vol. 1. New York, 1950.

26. Schewe D. (Ed.). Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, 1937—1939. New York, 1979. Vol. 7.

27. Stoler M. Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance and U. S. Strategy in World War II. Kentucky, 2003.

28. The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes. Vol. 2. The Inside Struggle, 1936—1939. New York, 1954.

Comments

No posts found

Write a review
Translate