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The Western Experience book cover
The Western Experience, 8/e
Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The Nightmare: World War II

Chapter Outline

I. The Years of Axis Victory

  1. The Path to War
  2. The Course of the War, 1939-1941

II. The Global War, 1942-1945

  1. The Turn of the Tide
  2. Competing Political Systems
  3. Allied Strategy
  4. The Road to Victory

III. Building on the Ruins

  1. Immediate Crises
  2. The Division between East and West
  3. Decolonization

IV. European Recovery

  1. Economic Growth
  2. New Political Directions
  3. The International Context