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The United States at War, 1941 - 1945.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New York Academy of Sciences SeriesPublisher: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (200 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118806586
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The United States at War, 1941 - 1945DDC classification:
  • 940.53/73
LOC classification:
  • D769 .H47 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Edition -- CHAPTER ONE: To Pearl Harbor: The United States and World Crisis -- The Arsenal of Democracy: The War in Europe -- "Not Enough Ships": The Effort to Restrain Japan -- CHAPTER TWO: Allied Defeats and the Axis Ascendancy, 1941-1942 -- The Nazi Empire at Its Peak -- Japan's Imperial Conquests -- Defeat and Surrender in the Philippines -- Popular Perceptions and Expectations -- CHAPTER THREE: The War in Europe: The Turn of the Tide -- The Debate over Strategy -- The North African Invasion -- The Eastern Front: The Russian Victory at Stalingrad -- The Battle of the Atlantic -- The Air War: The Bombing of Germany -- The Cross-Channel Invasion: D-Day -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Pacific Theater: The War against Japan, 1942-1945 -- "Our War": Characteristics and Popular Perceptions -- Midway: The End of Japan's Naval Invincibility -- Guadalcanal: The First Offensive -- The Island Campaign, 1943-1944 -- Iwo Jima and Okinawa -- Japan, 1945: The Refusal to Surrender -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Diplomatic Front: Roosevelt and the American Vision of the Postwar World -- The United Nations -- Soviet-American Cooperation -- China's International Status -- The End of Colonialism -- CHAPTER SIX: The Dilemmas of Victory -- Victory in Europe and the Extent of Nazi Tyranny -- "The Greatest Thing in History": The Atomic Bomb and Japan's Surrender -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Lingering Questions -- A People Victorious: America at the End of the War -- CONCLUSION: Why the Allies Won -- (1) Industrial Supremacy: Achieving the Economic Potential -- (2) Technology and Modernization of Armed Forces: Beating the Axis at Their Own Game -- (3) The Moral Struggle: Mobilizing Popular Will -- (4) The Quality of Leadership: Meeting the Challenge -- Bibliographical Essay -- Overview -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two.
Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Conclusion -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Edition -- CHAPTER ONE: To Pearl Harbor: The United States and World Crisis -- The Arsenal of Democracy: The War in Europe -- "Not Enough Ships": The Effort to Restrain Japan -- CHAPTER TWO: Allied Defeats and the Axis Ascendancy, 1941-1942 -- The Nazi Empire at Its Peak -- Japan's Imperial Conquests -- Defeat and Surrender in the Philippines -- Popular Perceptions and Expectations -- CHAPTER THREE: The War in Europe: The Turn of the Tide -- The Debate over Strategy -- The North African Invasion -- The Eastern Front: The Russian Victory at Stalingrad -- The Battle of the Atlantic -- The Air War: The Bombing of Germany -- The Cross-Channel Invasion: D-Day -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Pacific Theater: The War against Japan, 1942-1945 -- "Our War": Characteristics and Popular Perceptions -- Midway: The End of Japan's Naval Invincibility -- Guadalcanal: The First Offensive -- The Island Campaign, 1943-1944 -- Iwo Jima and Okinawa -- Japan, 1945: The Refusal to Surrender -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Diplomatic Front: Roosevelt and the American Vision of the Postwar World -- The United Nations -- Soviet-American Cooperation -- China's International Status -- The End of Colonialism -- CHAPTER SIX: The Dilemmas of Victory -- Victory in Europe and the Extent of Nazi Tyranny -- "The Greatest Thing in History": The Atomic Bomb and Japan's Surrender -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Lingering Questions -- A People Victorious: America at the End of the War -- CONCLUSION: Why the Allies Won -- (1) Industrial Supremacy: Achieving the Economic Potential -- (2) Technology and Modernization of Armed Forces: Beating the Axis at Their Own Game -- (3) The Moral Struggle: Mobilizing Popular Will -- (4) The Quality of Leadership: Meeting the Challenge -- Bibliographical Essay -- Overview -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two.

Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Conclusion -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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