World War II in global perspective / Andrew Buchanan.

"A comprehensive review of World War II that offers a global-level analysis Written for academics and students of history, World War II in Global Perspective, 1931-1953 presents a dynamic and global account of the historical events prior to, during, and after World War II. The authora noted exp...

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Main Author: Buchanan, Andrew, 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Wiley short histories.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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 Spain
  • Anschluss, Appeasement, and Rearmament
  • Towards an Asian War
  • Towards a European War
  • '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'
  • Italy Pulls Germany into the Mediterranean
  • War 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.