The United States at War, 1941-1945,9780882959849

The United States at War, 1941-1945

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780882959849
ISBN10: 0882959840
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-04-01
Publisher(s): John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Preface to the Second Edition xi
To Pearl Harbor: The United States and World Crisis
1(19)
The Arsenal of Democracy: The War in Europe
3(5)
``Not Enough Ships'': The Effort to Restrain Japan
8(12)
Allied Defeats and the Axis Ascendancy, 1941--1942
20(17)
The Nazi Empire at Its Peak
20(4)
Japan's Imperial Conquests
24(1)
Defeat and Surrender in the Philippines
25(8)
Popular Perceptions and Expectations
33(4)
The War in Europe: The Turn of the Tide
37(21)
The Debate Over Strategy
39(1)
The North African Invasion
40(5)
The Eastern Front: The Russian Victory at Stalingrad
45(3)
The Battle of the Atlantic
48(2)
The Air War: The Bombing of Germany
50(3)
The Cross-Channel Invasion: D-Day
53(5)
The Pacific Theater: The War Against Japan, 1942--1945
58(28)
``Our War'': Characteristics and Popular Perceptions
60(4)
Midway: The End of Japan's Naval Invincibility
64(4)
Guadalcanal: The First Offensive
68(3)
The Island Campaign, 1943--1944
71(7)
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
78(5)
Japan 1945: The Refusal to Surrender
83(3)
The Diplomatic Front---Roosevelt's Vision of the Postwar World
86(22)
The United Nations
90(3)
Soviet-American Cooperation
93(5)
China's International Status
98(4)
The End of Colonialism
102(6)
The Dilemmas of Victory
108(32)
Victory in Europe and the Extent of Nazi Tyranny
109(3)
``The Greatest Thing in History'': The Atomic Bomb and Japan's Surrender
112(2)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Lingering Questions
114(7)
A People Victorious: America at the End of the War
121(19)
Conclusion: Why the Allies Won
123(17)
Bibliographical Essay 140(23)
Index 163

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