The America First Committee by Sheldon Richman April 1, 1995 One of the most remarkable episodes in American history was the spontaneous and widespread opposition to Franklin Roosevelt's obvious attempts to embroil the United States in the European war that broke out in 1939. That opposition was centered in the America First Committee. In modern accounts of the war period, the committee is either ignored or maligned as a ...
American Foreign Policy — The Turning Point, 1898 –1919 Part 3 by Ralph Raico April 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 By 1899, the United States was involved in its first war in Asia. Three others were to follow in the course of the next century: against Japan, North Korea and China, and, finally, Viet Nam. But our first ...
Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman shared two things in common — their philosophical belief on the role of government in economic activity and their participation in the mass murder of millions of innocent ...
Covering the Map of the World — The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 2 by Richard M. Ebeling March 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 On the evening of February 8, 1945-the fifth day of the Yalta Conference — the Big Three — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin ...
American Foreign Policy — The Turning Point, 1898–1919 Part 2 by Ralph Raico March 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The year 1898 was a landmark in American history. It was the year America went to war with Spain — our first engagement with a foreign enemy in the dawning age of modern warfare. Aside from a few ...
World War II and the Triumph of Keynesianism by Robert Higgs March 1, 1995 War, everybody says, is hell. But many Americans do not really believe this truism, especially when the war in question is World War II. Of course, for the men who had to endure the horrors of combat, the war was terrible — just how terrible, hundreds of thousands of them did not live to say. But the great majority ...
Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 When Hitler's forces invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, millions of Russians welcomed and embraced the Nazi military forces. In many instances, Russian soldiers willingly surrendered to the Germans. The German invasion of ...
Covering the Map of the World — The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 1 by Richard M. Ebeling February 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 In the late afternoon of February 4, 1945, the "Big Three" of the Allied side in World War II — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and ...
The Roots of World War II by Sheldon Richman February 1, 1995 It is commonly thought that the 20th century witnessed two world wars. It would be more accurate to say that the century had but one world war — with a 21-year intermission. To put it another way, World War II grew out of World War I; indeed, it was made virtually inevitable by it. More ...
American Foreign Policy — The Turning Point, 1898–1919, Part 1 by Ralph Raico February 1, 1995 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 With the end of the twentieth century rapidly approaching, this is a time to look back and gain some perspective on where we stand as a nation. Were the Founding Fathers somehow to return, they would find it impossible to recognize our political ...
Clinton, Castro, and Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 1994 August 19, 1994, will go down as a black day in the history of the United States. On that day, President William Jefferson Clinton began jailing Cuban refugees in an American concentration center on the American side of Cuba. It was the first time since the Cuban revolution in 1959 that ...
The Lessons of Yeltsen’s Show of Force by Alan W. Bock August 1, 1994 The standoff at the Russian White House, eventually won (for the time being) by forces loyal to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, demonstrates once again the truth that most holders and defenders of political power prefer to keep under wraps: that political power is ultimately the result of the use of force, and depends for its continuance on the willingness ...