Covers the key political and military events of World War II as well as the causes and aftermath of the war. Examines many aspects of the war; from the historical and political backdrop of the period to military tactics and strategies to new technologies. Photographs that appear in the print version of this title are excluded from the ebook version due to copyright restrictions.
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Front Cover.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Set Contents.
Map Key.
Maps and Diagrams.
Introduction.
1: Legacies of World War I.
2: The Global Perspective.
3: The Treaty of Versailles.
4: Germany’s Reparations Burden.
5: The League of Nations.
6: War-Torn Europe.
7: America: The World’s Powerhouse.
8: The New Nations of Eastern Europe.
9: Turkey and Greece.
10: The Balkans.
11: Japan.
12: Europe’s Colonies.
13: Europe in the 1920s.
14: Searching for National Security.
15: Rebuilding France.
16: Britain: A Declining Power.
17: Communist Russia.
18: Communism and the Democracies.
19: Fascism in Italy.
20: Germany’s Weimar Republic.
21: The Stresemann Years.
22: The Nazis: From Street Fighting to Politics.
23: The 1928 Elections and the Young Plan.
24: The United States between the Wars.
25: A Return to Isolationism.
26: The Business of America is Business.
27: From Boom to Bust.
28: Black Tuesday.
29: The Great Depression.
30: Roosevelt and the New Deal.
31: Building Nazi Germany.
32: Germany’s Economic Collapse.
33: The 1930 Election.
34: Hitler Demands Power.
35: The 1932 Election.
36: Hitler Becomes Chancellor.
37: 1933: The End of German Democracy.
38: Nazi State Terror.
39: Building a Greater Germany.
40: German Rearmament.
41: Asia Between the Wars.
42: The British Raj.
43: Indonesia.
44: Life in the Philippines.
45: Civil War in China.
46: Japanese Ambition.
47: The Sino-Japanese War.
48: The United States in the Pacific.
49: U.S.–Japanese Friction.
50: Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America Between the Wars.
