| Description |
1 online resource (373 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Author's Note; 1 The War to End All Wars (1914-1921); The Great War; America Goes to War; Over There; A Vision of Peace; Meeting at Versailles; The United States and the League of Nations; Selected Bibliography; 2 The Illusion of Stability (1921-1930); The Far East; Involvement in Europe; Bolshevik Russia; Outlawing War; Prospects; Selected Bibliography; 3 The Collapse of Order (1931-1935); The Manchurian Crisis; The Rise of Adolf Hitler; Attitudes and Responses in the Democracies; Mussolini Invades Ethiopia; Selected Bibliography |
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4 Descent into Chaos (1936-1939)The Spanish Civil War; Japan Invades the Chinese Mainland; Hitler Takes the Initiative; The Road to Munich and Beyond; The Nazi-Soviet Pact; Blitzkrieg; The ""Phony War"" and the Winter War; Selected Bibliography; 5 The Dark Days (1940-1941); Securing the Northern Flank; War in the West; The Battle of Britain; The Battle at Sea and American Involvement; Operation BARBAROSSA; The United States Moves Closer to War; Selected Bibliography; 6 Japan Strikes (1939-1941); Japanese-American Relations Deteriorate; This Is Not Drill; A Date Which Will Live in Infamy |
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Consequences and ControversyThe Rising Tide; Selected Bibliography; 7 Japan at Bay (1942); Waging War Against Japan; The Battle of the Coral Sea; Midway; The United States Takes the Offensive: Guadalcanal; The First Year at War; Selected Bibliography; 8 War in North Africa (1940-1944); Beginning of the Desert War; The Campaign Resumes; Grand Strategy; Eisenhower and the Darlan Deal; Fighting the Axis; The Casablanca Conference; End of the Desert War; Selected Bibliography; 9 Attacking the Underbelly (1943-1945); Sicily; Italy Leaves the War; The Invasion of Italy; OVERLORD and Italy; Anzio |
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Monte CassinoANVIL (DRAGOON); A Strange Interlude; The Italian Campaign: An Assessment; Selected Bibliography; 10 Occupied Areas; The German ""New Order; The Holocaust; Resistance Movements; The Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere; China; Selected Bibliography; 11 Americans at War; Why We Fought; A Nation Under Arms; Mobilizing the Economy; Social Change; The Brown Peril; Enlisting Science and Technology; Selected Bibliography; 12 The Eastern Front (1942-1944); The Struggle for Survival; Hitler's Second Offensive; The Battle of Kursk; 1944: Hitler at Bay, Stalin Ascendant |
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Selected Bibliography13 Launching the Second Front (1944); Planning for OVERLORD; FORTITUDE; Preparations for Battle; D Day; Consolidation; Secret Weapons and Secret Plots; Allied Victory in Normandy; Men and Arms; Eisenhower Takes the Reins; MARKET-GARDEN; Selected Bibliography; 14 Closing the Vise (1945); The Ardennes Offensive; The Soviet Winter Offensive; The Remagen Bridge and the Decision to Halt at the Elbe; The Death of Hitler and Victory in Europe; The Air War; Selected Bibliography; 15 Across the Pacific (1943-1944); CARTWHEEL; Island Hopping; Back to the Philippines |
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Selected Bibliography |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140299
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429964336 |
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0429964331 |
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