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U.S. Elites and Scientific Mobilization After World War II
This chapter analyzes the origins of the post-World War II military-intellectual complex by examining how members of the military and scientific...
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Italy Imagined in World War II and Beyond
World War II significantly altered Italy in the American imagination yet again. The war cost the United States and Italy dearly, and as the Cold War...
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Saving Lives in World War II
The collapse of the Third Republic and the occupation of France led to the authoritarian Vichy regime. The LDH was predictably banned, and its major...
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The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: From World War II to the Berlin Blockade
After World War II relations between the Big Three continued to deteriorate, though initially distrust did not necessarily equate to ‘Cold War’. This...
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Historical Background: World War II and Tensions in the Wartime Alliance
This chapter introduces the roots of antagonism between the Soviet Union and the Western powers, outlining its development throughout the interwar...
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Disarmament Conferences and a Crisis of Diplomacy in the Interwar Period: The Road to World War II
This chapter focuses on the international system following World War 1 and efforts to create peace and stability through the League of Nations’...
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Homer, Humanism, and the Jews on the Cusp of World War II
This chapter examines how Jewish writers during World War II wrestled with the crisis of Enlightenment represented by Nazi imperialism and Jewish...
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Trauma, Experience and Narrative in Europe after World War II
This book promotes a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of trauma during and after World War II. Focusing especially on Eastern and...
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The Southward Advance and Going to War with the United States: The Road to World War II
This chapter examines how and why Japan ended up going to war with the United States in 1941. It discusses the concept of the “Southward Advance,”...
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Belarusian Nationalists and Nation-Building Efforts in the Twilight of World War II
This chapter examines the actions of a group of Belarusian nationalists during the later years of World War II. The actors involved in these...
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Empire and Harrow’s “Epic of War:” British Officers and Imperial Culture in the First World War
In the middle of the Great War, General Horace Smith-Dorrien, an Old Harrovian, published Harrow’s Epic of War, a short book which explained “how the...
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Fueling the Morale Panic: Axis Prisoners of War and American Women in the United States During World War II
This chapter argues that the frequent interactions of women with the 422,000 German and Italian prisoners of war (POWs) in the United States fueled...
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Traumatized Children in Hungary After World War II
This chapter examines how children’s wartime suffering was culturally constructed in postwar Hungary. Laine-Frigren uses a wide variety of source...
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“He Is All American Now”: Italian–Americans in the Italian Campaign of World War II
This article aims to analyze the case of the Italian–Americans participation in World War II. It is an interesting case study to focus on issues...
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The Cold War and the Third World: Latin America
Recent Cold War scholarship has seen a shift in the analytical paradigm from the centre to the periphery, emphasising how North/South dynamics...
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The Second Noisy World War
This chapter focuses on the role of sound and its impacts on the civil population of Second World War Germany. In the horrible circumstances of the...
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Working-Class Resistance and Anti-Imperialism, 1900–World War II
This chapter examines early 1900s resistance to colonialism and neocolonialism. The United States became a dominant imperial force in the Caribbean....
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World War I and the Origin of Sino-Japanese Conflict
This chapter focuses on World War I and the origins on Sino-Japanese conflict, attributing the Twenty-One Demands as the primary source of the...
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Community, Gender, and Race During War: The Amorous Relationships of POWs and German Women in World War II
Focusing on a number of case studies, this chapter shows how a Nazi regime haunted by the memory of World War I tried to prevent and punish...
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Testing the Silence: Trauma and Military Psychiatry in Soviet Russia and Ukraine During and After World War II
This chapter calls for a re-examination of how historians understand war-related trauma in the Red Army during and after World War II. Dale argues...