The United States at War 1941 – 1945 3e

<p>Preface to the Third Edition ix</p>
<p>Chapter One. To Pearl Harbor: The United States and World Crisis 1</p>
<p>The Arsenal of Democracy: The War in Europe 3</p>
<p> Not Enough Ships": The Effort to Restrain Japan 8</p>
<p>Chapter Two. Allied Defeats and the Axis Ascendancy, 1941–1942 20</p>
<p>The Nazi Empire at Its Peak 20</p>
<p>Japan s Imperial Conquests 24</p>
<p>Defeat and Surrender in the Philippines 25</p>
<p>Popular Perceptions and Expectations 34</p>
<p>Chapter Three. The War in Europe: The Turn of the Tide 38</p>
<p>The Debate over Strategy 38</p>
<p>The North African Invasion 41</p>
<p>The Eastern Front: The Russian Victory at Stalingrad 45</p>
<p>The Battle of the Atlantic 49</p>
<p>The Air War: The Bombing of Germany 51</p>
<p>The Cross–Channel Invasion: D–Day 53</p>
<p>Chapter Four. The Pacific Theater: The War against Japan, 1942–1945 59</p>
<p> Our War : Characteristics and Popular Perceptions 61</p>
<p>Midway: The End of Japan s Naval Invincibility 65</p>
<p>Guadalcanal: The First Offensive 69</p>
<p>The Island Campaign, 1943–1944 72</p>
<p>Iwo Jima and Okinawa 79</p>
<p>Japan 1945: The Refusal to Surrender 84</p>
<p>Chapter Five. The Diplomatic Front: Roosevelt and the American Vision of the Postwar World 87</p>
<p>The United Nations 90</p>
<p>Soviet–American Cooperation 92</p>
<p>China s International Status 98</p>
<p>The End of Colonialism 102</p>
<p>Chapter Six. The Dilemmas of Victory 109</p>
<p>Victory in Europe and the Extent of Nazi Tyranny 110</p>
<p> The Greatest Thing in History : The Atomic Bomb and Japan s Surrender 114</p>
<p>Hiroshima and Magasaki: The Lingering Questions 117</p>
<p>A People Victorious: America at the End of the War 125</p>
<p>Conclusion: Why the Allies Won 127</p>
<p>Bibliographical Essay 146</p>
<p>Index 167</p>
<p>Photographs follow page 86</p>
<p>Maps:</p>
<p>Europe under the Axis 21</p>
<p>Japan s Empire, 1942 26</p>
<p>Allied Offensives, 1942–1945 39</p>
<p>U.S. Offensive against Japan 60</p>