"World Appeasement" to "No Appeasement," 1936-1941: A Study of American Foreign Policy and the Munich Crisis

FAIN: FT-11846-74

Alan K. Henrikson
Tufts University (Somerville, MA 02144-2401)

To complete the writing of a book on U.S. foreign policy as it was transformed by the trauma of the 1938 Czechoslovakian crisis. The thematic focus of the study is on the distinctively American "global" approach toward a settlement with German, Italy, and Japan in the period before Pearl Harbor. Particular attention is given to the possibility of America's having conducted a more effective "economic appeasement" strategy--a diplomatic initiative comparable to the present-day economic overture to Soviet Russia.