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The United States at War, 1941 - 1945

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hess, Gary R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a (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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