| Description |
xxv, 676 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- World War II: the tide of aggression -- The Battle of Poland -- The Sitzkrieg -- The fall of France -- The Battle of Britain -- The Mediterranean and Eastern Europe -- American neutrality and aid to Britain -- The Nazi attack on Soviet Russia -- World War II: the ebb of aggression -- The rising sun in the Pacific -- The turning tide: Midway, El Alamein, French Africa, and Stalingrad -- Closing in on Germany -- Closing in on Japan -- The new age -- Rationalization and science -- The twentieth-century pattern -- Nuclear rivalry and the Cold War: American atomic supremacy -- The factors -- The origins of the Cold War -- The crisis in China -- American confusions -- Nuclear rivalry and the Cold War: the race for the H-bomb -- Joe I and the American nuclear debate -- The Korean War and its aftermath -- The Eisenhower team -- The rise of Khrushchev -- The Cold War in Eastern and Southern Asia -- The new era -- The growth of nuclear stalemate -- The disintegrating superblocs -- Tragedy and hope: the future in perspective -- The unfolding of time -- The United States and middle-class crisis -- European ambiguities |
| Notes |
Originally published as Part II of Tragedy and hope |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 1945-1989.
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History, Modern -- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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World history.
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| LC no. |
68012284 |
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