World War II in Global Perspective, 1931-1953: A Short History

Content: Intro
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 List of Illustrations
 Acknowledgments
 Introduction
 Chapter 1 The Crisis of the Old World Order
 World War I and the Postwar Settlement
 The Rise of American Power
 Europe in the 1920s
 Revolution and Counter‐Revolution in Russia
 Japan, China, and the Deepening Conflict in Asia
 Note
 Reference
 Further Reading
 Chapter 2 The Great Depression and the Opening Guns of World War II
 The New Deal
 Depression and Military Expansionism in Japan
 The Rise of Nazi Germany
 Towards the "Axis" Alliance
 Moscow and the Search for Collective Security Popular Front in France and Civil War in SpainAnschluss, Appeasement, and Rearmament
 Towards an Asian War
 Towards a European War
 Notes
 References
 Further Reading
 Chapter 3 1940: Axis Victories and New Strategic Choices
 Winter War in Finland
 German Lebensraum in Poland
 The German Domination of Scandinavia
 Anglo-French Plans and Imperial Mobilizations
 Summer 1940: The Fall of France
 The Battle of Britain
 New Strategic Choices
 The Tripartite Pact
 Berlin Turns East
 Tokyo Turns South
 Rome's "Parallel War"
 Notes
 References
 Further Reading
 Chapter 4 1941-1942: Axis Flood Tide Italy Pulls Germany into the MediterraneanWar and Nationalism in the Middle East
 Operation Barbarossa
 The Shoah
 Barbarossa and the Emerging World War
 Pearl Harbor and World War
 Japan's Centrifugal Offensive
 The Arcadia Conference
 Notes
 Reference
 Further Reading
 Chapter 5 1942-1943: Turning Points
 A World War
 Sea Lanes, Air Ways, and Networks of Connectivity
 Aerial Highways
 Military Turning Points: The Pacific
 Deadlock in China
 Military Turning Points: The German-Soviet War
 Military Turning Points: The Mediterranean
 Notes
 Reference
 Further Reading
 Chapter 6 War Economies The Soviet Union: Wartime Planning in a Socialized EconomyWar and Business in America and Britain
 Axis War Planning
 China: War Production and Capitalist Modernity
 A War of Production
 Mobilizing Labor
 A War of Technology
 Notes
 Reference
 Further Reading
 Chapter 7 1943: Total War and the Emerging Contours of the Postwar World
 The Combined Bomber Offensive
 The Crisis on Germany's Ostfront
 Strategic Choices in the Pacific and Wars for National Liberation in Southeast Asia
 The Transformation of British‐Ruled India
 China and the Cairo Conference War, Popular Revolt, and Allied Politics in ItalyChetniks and Partisans in Yugoslavia
 The Tehran Conference
 Notes
 References
 Further Reading
 Chapter 8 1944: The Allies March Towards Victory
 World War and Latin America
 The Neutral Countries
 Allied Advances: The Red Army Rolls On
 Allied Advances: Italy and France
 General Charles de Gaulle and the Revival of France
 War and Politics in Italy and Greece
 American Advances in the Pacific and Japan's Ichigō Offensive in China
 Notes
 Further Reading
 Chapter 9 1945: The War Ends, Fighting Continues
 A New World Economic Order