reconstruction (1939-1951)

Recounts the disorder in Europe after World War II, describing the brutal acts against Germans and collaborators, the anti-Semitic beliefs that reemerged and the Allied-tolerated expulsions of citizens from their ancestral homelands.

Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on events that occurred during the shift to a peacetime existence, from 1946 to 1952.

This book gives an in-depth discussion of European integration and the influence of Communism on Western Europe.

"This collection will introduce students and educators to a diverse range of genres, including journals, letters, speeches, government legislation, and court opinions. Documents represent the diversity of ideas and contexts that define social, political and cultural subjects throughout American history. This...resource provides students and researchers with many new ways to explore the 1940s, as the country was affected by World War II"--Amazon.com.

Examines the negotiations that partitioned Europe and laid the foundations of the Cold War.

A collection of black-and-white photographs that record the aftermath of World War II, taken by Swiss photographer Werner Bischof during a journey throughout Germany, France, Hungary, Holland, Greece, and Italy, which began in the summer of 1945.

The end of World War II was met with cheering crowds and many celebrations. The period of anarchy and civil war that also followed the end of World War II has been forgotten. Across Europe more than thirty million people had been killed in the war and the infastructure, and institutions we take for granted, such as police, transport and governments, were either absent or seriously compromised. With collapsing economies everywhere, the entire European population was on the brink of starvation. Although the actual war was over the fight to rebuild Europe was only beginning.