University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
No middle way: Franklin D. Roosevelt and limited war, 1940-1942
Abstract
dc:descriptionFrom March, 1941, until the attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt pursued a policy of de facto undeclared war on Germany--a policy clearly designed to contain German expansion by limited means--while fully expecting that this essentially defensive policy could persist indefinitely. But meanwhile his public discourse depicted the Nazi threat to America as overwhelming, and he demanded the total defeat of Hitler's regime. To continue with this limited/unlimited dual-track policy would in time likely have risked his political prestige both at home and abroad. Pearl Harbor and Hitler's subsequent declaration of war led the President to resolve his mounting predicament by discarding the policy of limited means and endorsing total war in Europe.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History, United States
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Bunch, Stephen G.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Widenor, William C.
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1994 Bunch, Stephen G.
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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AAI9522083
(UMI)AAI9522083 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23807