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This course considers the Second World War from the distinctive perspective of the United States, a reluctant belligerent whose entry insured Allied victory. That victory laid the foundations for America’s post-war preeminence, and left America a different place from what it had been when the war began.
PART 1 ~ Getting to War (1935-1941). This lecture considers the gradual erosion of American neutrality and the political consensus that supported it, in the face of rising disorder in Europe and Asia; a process that was by no means complete when Japan forced the issue in the Pacific.
Daniel J. Moran is Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He was educated at Yale and Stanford universities and has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Dr. Moran teaches courses and supervises doctoral research in strategic theory, American foreign relations, and the history of war and international relations since the end of the 19th century.
