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The United States and the Second World War : New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front / ed. by Sidney Pash, G. Kurt Piehler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical DimensionPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823231201
  • 9780823293292
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Roosevelt at the Rubicon: The Great Convoy Debate of 19 -- 2. Containment, Rollback, and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1933–1941 -- 3. ‘‘In Terms of Peoples Rather Than Nations’’: World War II Propaganda and Conceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy -- 4. Allotment Annies and Other Wayward Wives: Wartime Concerns About Female Disloyalty and the Problem of the Returned Veteran -- 5. General George S. Patton and the War-Winning Sherman Tank My -- 6. Naval Gunfire Support in Operation Neptune: A Reexamination -- 7. Veterans Tell Their Stories and Why Historians and Others Listened -- 8. Semper Paratus: The U.S. Coast Guard’s Flotilla 10 at Omaha Beach -- 9. American Pacifism, the ‘‘Greatest Generation,’’ and World War II -- 10. Foreign Policy Experts as Service Intellectuals: The American Institute of Pacific Relations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Planning the Occupation of Japan During World War II -- 11. Hiroshima and the U.S. Peace Movement: Commemoration of August 6, 1948–1960 -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: In this compelling book, G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash bring together a collection of essays offering a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the United States to enter World War II, the role of the American military in the Allied victory, and war-time planning for the postwar world, but also tackle new inquiries into life on the home front and America's commemoration of one of the most controversial and climatic events of the war-the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. These outstanding historians cover crucial moments such as: Franklin D. Roosevelt's pivotal, if at times indecisive, role in leading the United States The miscalculation of Japanese intentions by American diplomats and the failure of deterrence in preventing war in the Pacific The experiences and contributions of conscientious objectors to American society in this time of total war The decision of the United States to fight with an ineffective battle tank at the expense of American lives The Coast Guard's contribution to the D-Day Landing How elite foreign policy organizations prior to V-J Day sought to influence American occupation policies regarding Japan With these essays and much more, The United States in the Second World War is sure to prove a classic to World War II buffs.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Roosevelt at the Rubicon: The Great Convoy Debate of 19 -- 2. Containment, Rollback, and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1933–1941 -- 3. ‘‘In Terms of Peoples Rather Than Nations’’: World War II Propaganda and Conceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy -- 4. Allotment Annies and Other Wayward Wives: Wartime Concerns About Female Disloyalty and the Problem of the Returned Veteran -- 5. General George S. Patton and the War-Winning Sherman Tank My -- 6. Naval Gunfire Support in Operation Neptune: A Reexamination -- 7. Veterans Tell Their Stories and Why Historians and Others Listened -- 8. Semper Paratus: The U.S. Coast Guard’s Flotilla 10 at Omaha Beach -- 9. American Pacifism, the ‘‘Greatest Generation,’’ and World War II -- 10. Foreign Policy Experts as Service Intellectuals: The American Institute of Pacific Relations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Planning the Occupation of Japan During World War II -- 11. Hiroshima and the U.S. Peace Movement: Commemoration of August 6, 1948–1960 -- Contributors -- Index

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In this compelling book, G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash bring together a collection of essays offering a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the United States to enter World War II, the role of the American military in the Allied victory, and war-time planning for the postwar world, but also tackle new inquiries into life on the home front and America's commemoration of one of the most controversial and climatic events of the war-the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. These outstanding historians cover crucial moments such as: Franklin D. Roosevelt's pivotal, if at times indecisive, role in leading the United States The miscalculation of Japanese intentions by American diplomats and the failure of deterrence in preventing war in the Pacific The experiences and contributions of conscientious objectors to American society in this time of total war The decision of the United States to fight with an ineffective battle tank at the expense of American lives The Coast Guard's contribution to the D-Day Landing How elite foreign policy organizations prior to V-J Day sought to influence American occupation policies regarding Japan With these essays and much more, The United States in the Second World War is sure to prove a classic to World War II buffs.

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In English.

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