Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson
The American Promise:
A History of the United States
Fourth Edition
CHAPTER 25
The United States and the Second World War
1939–1945
Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s
Peacetime Dilemmas
• Roosevelt and Reluctant Isolation
• The Good Neighbor Policy
• The Price of Noninvolvement
The Onset of War
• Nazi Aggression and War in Europe
• From Neutrality to the Arsenal of Democracy
• Japan Attacks America
Mobilizing for War
• Home-Front Security
• Building a Citizen Army
• Conversion to a War Economy
Fighting Back
• Turning the Tide in the Pacific
• The Campaign in Europe
The Wartime Home Front
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Women and Families, Guns and Butter
The Double V Campaign
Wartime Politics and the 1944 Election
Reaction to the Holocaust
Toward Unconditional Surrender
• From Bombing Raids to Berlin
• The Defeat of Japan
• Atomic Warfare
Chapter 25
The United States and the Second World War:
1939–1945
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Map 25.1 Axis Aggression through 1941 (p. 908)
Map 25.2 Japanese Aggression through 1941 (p. 913)
Map 25.3 Western Relocation Authority Centers (p. 915)
Map 25.4 The European Theater of World War II, 1942–1945 (p. 933)
Map 25.5 The Pacific Theater of World War II, 1941–1945 (p. 938)
Figure 25.1 World War II and the Economy, 1942–1945 (p. 925)
Global Comparison: Weapons Production by the Axis and Allied Powers
during World War II (p. 920)
Pearl Harbor Attack Japanese Postcard (p. 914)
D Day Invasion (p. 932)
Yalta Conference (p. 934)
Marine Pinned Down on Saipan (p. 939)
Hiroshima Bombing (p. 941)
“Fat Man” (p. 941)