Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction – The Implications of World War II: Scholarly Analyses of the Impact of the Second World War
(Allison L. Palmadessa – Associate Professor of History, Greensboro College)

Chapter 1. Preparing for Total War Under Political and Economic Constraints: Greek Economic Mobilization before and during World War II, 1923-1941
(Ioannis-Dionysios Salavrakos – National & Capodistrian University of Athens, Department of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies, 4 Dragatsaniou Street, Athens, Greece)

Chapter 2. Brazil and World War II: Conflict and Cooperation in the Brazil-United States Military Alliance, 1939-1950
(Dennison de Oliveira – Department of History, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, BR)

Chapter 3. Occupation Borders During World War II in Slovenia, 1941-1945
(Peter Miksa and Matija Zorn – Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, et al.)

Chapter 4. Creating the Democratic Ideal: Presidential Expectations for American Education, 1939-1947 (Allison L. Palmadessa – Associate Professor of History, Greensboro College)

Chapter 5. Russian Threat Perceptions and the Ghost of Barbarossa: Soviet Shadows and New Military Uncertainties (Stephen J. Cimbala – Pennsylvania State University – Brandywine)

Chapter 6. Sputnik Versus the American Education System: The National Defense Education Act of 1958 (Allison L. Palmadessa – Associate Professor of History, Greensboro
College).

Index