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Title Page 6
Copyright Page 7
Contents 10
List of Illustrations 12
Acknowledgments 14
Introduction 16
Chapter 1 The Crisis of the Old World Order 22
- World War I and the Postwar Settlement 23
- The Rise of American Power 26
- Europe in the 1920s 28
- Revolution and Counter‐Revolution in Russia 30
- Japan, China, and the Deepening Conflict in Asia 32
- Reference 35
- Note 35
- Further Reading 35

Title Page 6
Copyright Page 7
Contents 10
List of Illustrations 12
Acknowledgments 14
Introduction 16
Chapter 1 The Crisis of the Old World Order 22
- World War I and the Postwar Settlement 23
- The Rise of American Power 26
- Europe in the 1920s 28
- Revolution and Counter‐Revolution in Russia 30
- Japan, China, and the Deepening Conflict in Asia 32
- Reference 35
- Note 35
- Further Reading 35
Chapter 2 The Great Depression and the Opening Guns of World War II 36
- The New Deal 37
- Depression and Military Expansionism in Japan 38
- The Rise of Nazi Germany 40
- Towards the “Axis” Alliance 44
- Moscow and the Search for Collective Security 46
- Popular Front in France and Civil War in Spain 47
- Anschluss, Appeasement, and Rearmament 49
- Towards an Asian War 51
- Towards a European War 54
- Notes 55
- References 56
- Further Reading 56
Chapter 3 1940: Axis Victories and New Strategic Choices 58
- Winter War in Finland 59
- German Lebensraum in Poland 60
- The German Domination of Scandinavia 62
- Anglo-French Plans and Imperial Mobilizations 63
- Summer 1940: The Fall of France 65
- The Battle of Britain 67
- New Strategic Choices 68
- The Tripartite Pact 71
- Berlin Turns East 72
- Tokyo Turns South 73
- Rome’s “Parallel War” 75
- Notes 77
- Further Reading 78
- References 78
Chapter 4 1941–1942: Axis Flood Tide 80
- Italy Pulls Germany into the Mediterranean 80
- War and Nationalism in the Middle East 83
- Operation Barbarossa 84
- The Shoah 87
- Barbarossa and the Emerging World War 89
- Pearl Harbor and World War 92
- Japan’s Centrifugal Offensive 94
- The Arcadia Conference 98
- Reference 99
- Notes 99
- Further Reading 99
Chapter 5 1942–1943: Turning Points 102
- A World War 102
- Sea Lanes, Air Ways, and Networks of Connectivity 103
- Aerial Highways 107
- Military Turning Points: The Pacific 109
- Deadlock in China 111
- Military Turning Points: The German–Soviet War 112
- Military Turning Points: The Mediterranean 116
- Notes 120
- Further Reading 120
- Reference 120
Chapter 6 War Economies 122
- The Soviet Union: Wartime Planning in a Socialized Economy 123
- War and Business in America and Britain 124
- Axis War Planning 126
- China: War Production and Capitalist Modernity 129
- A War of Production 130
- Mobilizing Labor 134
- A War of Technology 140
- Notes 144
- Further Reading 145
- Reference 145
Chapter 7 1943: Total War and the Emerging Contours of the Postwar World 148
- The Combined Bomber Offensive 149
- The Crisis on Germany’s Ostfront 152
- Strategic Choices in the Pacific and Wars for National Liberation in Southeast Asia 154
- The Transformation of British‐Ruled India 157
- China and the Cairo Conference 159
- War, Popular Revolt, and Allied Politics in Italy 161
- Chetniks and Partisans in Yugoslavia 164
- The Tehran Conference 165
- References 167
- Notes 167
- Further Reading 168
Chapter 8 1944: The Allies March Towards Victory 170
- World War and Latin America 170
- The Neutral Countries 174
- Allied Advances: The Red Army Rolls On 177
- Allied Advances: Italy and France 180
- General Charles de Gaulle and the Revival of France 183
- War and Politics in Italy and Greece 186
- American Advances in the Pacific and Japan’s Ichigō Offensive in China 189
- Further Reading 193
- Notes 193
Chapter 9 1945: The War Ends, Fighting Continues 196
- A New World Economic Order 196
- The Yalta Conference 199
- The End in Europe 201
- The Trieste Crisis and the Potsdam Conference 204
- Strategic Bombing and the War in the Pacific 206
- Geopolitics in Asia and the Atomic Bombing of Japan 207
- The Ragged End of the War in Asia 210
- Further Reading 213
- References 213
- Notes 213
Chapter 10 War and Postwar, 1945–1953 216
- The Human Cost 216
- Why Did the Allies Win? 218
- America’s Qualified Victory 220
- Washington Organizes Its Hegemony 222
- The End of Empire in Southeast Asia 225
- Indian Independence and Anti‐Colonialism in Africa 228
- Nationalism, Oil, and Imperialism in the Middle East 230
- The Partition of Europe 232
- Military Occupation, War, and Revolution in Asia 235
- A Short and Qualified American Century 238
- References 239
- Notes 239
- Further Reading 239
Epilogue 242
- Note 244
- FurtherReading 245
Index 246
EULA 265

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