An American Perspective

John Van Oudenaren

Chapter 3 in Ukraine and European Security, 1999, pp 27-39 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The United States (US) has been engaged continuously in European security affairs since the early 1940s, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt skirted US neutrality laws to provide military aid to Great Britain, and more openly after Pearl Harbor, when Roosevelt overruled those calling for an Asia-first strategy to make defeat of Nazi Germany America’s primary war objective. After World War II, the US remained engaged in European affairs, although that it would do so was not a foregone conclusion. In 1945–46, US troops were rapidly withdrawn from the continent and demobilized, and there was strong isolationist sentiment in the Congress and the public.1

Keywords: European Union; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Ethnic Conflict; European Security; Military Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14743-4_3

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