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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: WORLD WAR II, 1941–1945
THE COMING OF WORLD WAR II
The Shadows of War
Isolationism
Roosevelt Readies for War
Pearl Harbor
ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY
Mobilizing for War
Economic Conversion
New Workers
Wartime Strikes
THE HOME FRONT
Families in Wartime
The Internment of Japanese Americans
Civil Rights and Race Riots
Zoot-Suit Riots
Popular Culture and “The Good War”
MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM
Creating the Armed Forces
Women Enter the Military
Old Practices and New Horizons
The Medical Corps
Prisoners of War
THE WORLD AT WAR
Soviets Halt Nazi Drive
The Allied Offensive
The Allied Invasion of Europe
The High Cost of European Victory
The War in Asia and the Pacific
THE LAST STAGES OF THE WAR
The Holocaust
The Yalta Conference
The Atomic Bomb