As the nations of the world are distracted by their own economic problems, two major powers in Europe and Asia, Germany and Japan, are making aggressive incursions into neighboring countries. The Germans feel that the peace treaties after World War ...
In late 1940, Roosevelt trades destroyers to British in return for access to bases in our hemisphere, commits to lend lease, and meets with Churchill to draft Atlantic Charter that projects the "shape" of a post-war world, Privately Roosevelt tells ...
The Senate Foreign Relations committee chaired by Henry Cabot Lodge rejects the treaty negotiated at Versailles. The idea of collective security required by membership in League of Nations is problematic for both liberals and conservatives. The U.S....