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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