Notes on
World War II

Woodrow Wilson, “Text of Address by ex-President Wilson on ‘The Significance of Armistice Day,’” New York Times , November 11, 1923, 1.[]

On the start of the conflict in Europe, see, for instance, P. M. H. Bell, The Origins of the Second World War in Europe (New York: Routledge, 1986).[]

On the second Sino-Japanese War, see, for instance, Michael A. Barnhart, Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987); Dick Wilson, When Tigers Fight: The Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945 (New York: Viking, 1982); and Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven, eds., T he Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945 (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011).[]

Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Quarantine Speech,” October 5, 1937, Presidential Speeches, Miller Center, https://​millercenter​.org/​the​-presidency/​presidential- speeches/october-5-1937-quarantine-speech.[]

See Joshua A. Fogel, The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).[]

Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Fireside Chat 14: On the European War,” September 3, 1939, Presidential Speeches, Miller Center, University of Virginia, https://​millercenter​.org/​the​-presidency/​presidential​-speeches/​september​-3​-1939- fireside-chat-14-european-war.[]

Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, FDR and the Jews (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2013), 149.[]

Herbert Feis, The Road to Pearl Harbor: The Coming of the War Between the United States and Japan(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1950).[]

Dorothy Thompson, “Awakening,” Boston Daily Globe , May 20, 1940, 14.[]

Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Fireside Chat 16: On the ‘Arsenal of Democracy,’” December 29, 1940, Presidential Speeches, Miller Center, University of Virginia, https://​millercenter​.org/​the​-presidency/​presidential​-speeches/​december​-29​-1940​-fireside​-chat​-16​-arsenal​-democracy.[]

Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (New York: Penguin, 1999); Omer Bartov, The Eastern Front, 1941–45: German Troops and the Barbarization of Warfare (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1986); Catherine Merridale, Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945 (New York: Picador, 2006).[]

There are countless works on the experiences of World War II soldiers. See, for instance, Stephen E. Ambrose’s Citizen Soldiers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997); and Eugene Sledge’s With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (New York: Presidio Press, 1981).[]

David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 710–712.[]

For the Pacific War, see, for instance, Ronald Spector, Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan (New York: Vintage Books, 1985); John Keegan, The Second World Wa r (New York: Viking, 1990); John Costello, The Pacific War: 1941–1945 (New York: Harper, 2009); and John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986).[]

Dower, War Without Mercy.[]

Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943(New York: Holt, 2002).[]

Max Hastings, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985).[]

Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (New York: Norton, 1997).[]

Christopher Duffy, Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1993).[]

Michael J. Hogan, Hiroshima in History and Memory (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996); Gar Alperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (New York: Vintage Books, 1996).[]

See, for instance, Michael Adams, The Best War Ever: America and World War II (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Mark Harrison, ed., The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998); and Kennedy, Freedom from Fear.[]

Kasey Keeler, “Putting People Where They Belong: American Indian Housing Policy in the Mid-Twentieth Century,” Native American and Indigenous Studies 3, no. 2 (Fall 2016): 80.[]

Deborah Cohen, Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011).[]

Interview with Rogelio Valdez Robles by Valerie Martinez and Lydia Valdez, transcribed by Nancy Valerio, September 21, 2008, quoted in Valerie A. Martinez, “The Bracero Program in West Texas, 1951–1964,” M.A. thesis, Texas Tech University, 2009, 73; interview with Alvaro Hernández by Myrna Parra-Mantilla, February 5, 2003, Interview No. 33, Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso.[]

Alecea Standlee, “Shifting Spheres: Gender, Labor, and the Construction of National Identity in U.S. Propaganda During the Second World War,” Minerva Journal of Women and War 4 (Spring 2010): 43–62.[]

Major Jeanne Holm, U.S. Air Force (retired), Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution (Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982), 21–109; Portia Kernodle, The Red Cross Nurse in Action, 1882–1948 (New York: Harper & Bros., 1949), 406–453.[]

William P. Jones, The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (New York: Norton, 2013).[]

Stephen Tuck, Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Daniel Kryder, Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War II (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000).[]

Andrew Buni, Robert L. Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier: Politics and Black Journalism (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974).[]

Dominic J. Capeci Jr. and Martha Wilkerson, Layered Violence: The Detroit Rioters of 1943 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991).[]

Mireya Loza, Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016); Emilio Zamora, Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009).[]

Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and Emilio Zamora, eds., Beyond the Latino WWII Hero: Social and Political Legacies of the Latino WWII Generation(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009).[]

Kenneth William Townsend, World War II and the American Indian(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002[]

Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).[]

Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982), 18.[]

David Mayers, Dissenting Voices in America’s Rise to Power (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 274.[]

Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999).[]

Fraser J. Harbutt, Yalta 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroads of Peace (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 258; Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of a Modern Idea (New York: Penguin, 2012), 208.[]

Paul Kennedy, The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations (New York: Random House, 2006).[]

Kathleen Frydl, The G.I. Bill (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009); Suzanne Mettler, Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).[]

Frydl, G.I. Bill ; Mettler, Soldiers to Citizens.[]

Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Knopf, 2003).[]