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INDEX
Acheson, Dean, 142
Adams, Archie, 444
Addsco strike (1943), 444, 539
Adkins, John, 440
affirmative action, 249
aid to Allies:
Cabinet reorganization and, 71–72
convoys in, 233–34, 236, 277–78, 609
FDR and, 61–62, 64–67
Gallup poll on, 195
Ickes’s view of, 262
isolationists and, 70, 194–95
Soviet invasion and, 255–58
stab-in-the-back speech and, 67–69
U.S. military opposition to, 61, 64–67, 70, 261
see also lend-lease
aircraft industry:
mobilization effort and, 258–59
Negroes employed in, 330
Reuther plan and, 196–97
unions and, 225–26
Alabama Times, 330–31
Albania, 578
Albright, Joseph, 249
ALCOA, 259–60
Aldrich, Winthrop, 99
Alexander, Will, 171
Allen, Robert, 523–24
Alsop, Corinne Robinson, 91, 375, 377
Alsop, Joe, 377
Altschul, Jack, 606
aluminum scrap drive, 260–61
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 55, 184
Ambrose, Stephen, 509–10
American, 458–59
American-British Conference on Refugees, 453
American Civil Liberties Union, 321
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 229, 247
American Student Union, 122–23, 227
American Youth Congress (AYC), 30, 83–84, 140–41
Amsterdam News, 253
Anderson, Marian, 163
Anthony, George, 615
anti-lynching law, 163–65
anti-Semitism, 103, 173, 455
FDR and, 102, 397
see also Jews; refugee issue
Anzio, Battle of, 508
Arcadia Conference (1941), 303–4
Ardennes counteroffensive, see Bulge, Battle of the
Argentia Conference, see Atlantic Conference
Arizona, 288
Arizona, University of, 428–29
Army, U.S., 262, 292, 293
aid to Allies opposed by, 64–67, 70
August 1940 maneuvers of, 143–44
extension of draft and, 267
growth of, 372
integrated combat units in, 567–68, 626–27
Japanese-Americans in, 430, 514
Louisiana maneuvers of, 48–52, 61
preparedness of, 22–23
segregated facilities in, 421–44
army bases and camps, inspection of, 424–27
Arnold, Henry H. “Hap,” 263, 305, 404, 477, 511, 609
Arnold, Thurman, 259, 398
Asbell, Bernard, 243, 287, 492
Associated Press (AP), 25, 219, 222, 530, 594
Astrid, Princess of Norway, 149
Atkinson, Alfred, 429
Atlantic, Battle of, 233, 449, 468
Atlantic Charter, 266, 312
Atlantic Conference (Argentia) (1941), 262–67, 277, 283, 301, 303, 598
atomic bomb:
in attacks on Japan, 621
Churchill and, 346–47, 546
Einstein’s letter on, 346
ER and, 621
FDR-Churchill secrecy pact and, 546
first test of, 582
Manhattan Project and, 347, 531, 590, 621
proposed use of, 590
in Quebec Conference, 461
Attlee, Clement, 32, 305
Augusta, 263, 265, 267
Auschwitz concentration camp, 396, 515, 516
Australia, 462, 463, 464, 465, 499
Austria, 70, 103, 578
auto industry, 259, 625
defense mobilization and, 231–33, 314–15
Ford strike and, 226
Reuther plan and, 196–97
wartime transformation of, 362–63, 365
Avery, Sewell, 498
Bachelder, Toi, 34, 242
Badoglio, Pietro, 449
Baltic States, 478
Baltimore, 531, 533
Baltimore Afro-American, 522
Baltimore Sun, 17, 140
Bankhead, William B., 44, 124, 129, 133, 159
banking crisis, 57, 221, 320
“Barbara Frietchie” (Whittier), 438
Barber, William, 538–40
Barkley, Alben, 44, 125–26, 133, 486–487, 526, 606
Barn-more, Ethel, 198
Bartlett family, 113
Barton, Bruce, 185
Baruch, Bernard, 102, 147, 216, 226, 411–12, 458, 469, 497–500
Beardall, John, 262
Beaverbrook, William Aiken, Lord, 45, 301, 305, 306, 308, 438, 439, 458
Belair, Felix, 25
Belgium, 14–15, 23, 30–31, 33, 38, 41, 63, 190, 403, 543, 564, 578
Bell, Harry, 186–87
Bell, Mildred, 186
Bell, Minnewa, 178
Belle Isle race riots, 445
Bellinger, Patrick, 294
Bellow, Saul, 450–51
Belzec concentration camp, 396, 454, 515
Benjamin, Maurice, 279
Benjamin, Mrs. Maurice, 279
Bennett, Harry, 226, 229
Bergman, Ingrid, 399
Bergson, Peter, 455
Berle, Adolf A., Jr., 69, 173, 238, 591
Berlin, Irving, 239–40
Berlin, Isaiah, 45–46, 63, 308, 607
Berlin Diary (Shirer), 359
Bethune, Mary McCleod, 162, 163, 228, 447
Biddle, Francis, 204, 322, 392, 446, 498, 604
Bill of Rights, 485–86
Birkenau concentration camp, 396, 515
Bishop, Jim, 592
Black, Ruby, 183
black markets, 356
blacks, see Negroes
Blakeley, Betty, 414–15
Blum, John, 399, 537
Boettiger, Anna, see Roosevelt, Anna
Boettiger, John, 235, 284, 338, 367, 372, 480, 517, 519, 591
Anna Roosevelt’s correspondence with, 438, 466, 479, 480, 481, 498, 504, 568, 574, 575, 579, 583, 588
D-Day speech and, 507
and decision to serve, 409–10, 424
emotional breakdown of, 472
FDR and, 177, 211, 604, 632
Kennedy and, 211
with Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 181, 182
in service, 452, 489, 491
Teheran Conference and, 471–72, 473
Boettiger, John, Jr., 75, 451, 489, 491, 492, 502, 520, 568, 598, 601, 604, 632
Bogart, Humphrey, 310, 399
Bohlen, Charles E., 257, 344, 475, 577, 578
Bolero, Operation, 342, 439
Bolton, Frances, 148
Boston Evening America, 618
Boston Globe, 210
Bowen, Catherine Drinker, 561
Bracken, Brendan, 382
Bradley, Omar, 589
Bratton, Rufus, 288
Braun, Eva, 620
Brazil, 384, 495
Brett, George H., 65
Bridges, Edward, 577
Brinkley, David, 394, 432, 488
Britain, Battle of, 138, 146, 151–52, 192, 195–96
British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 32, 62–63
British Gambia, 419
British inspection tour, 379, 381–82, 391
Brooke, Alan, 461, 506
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 161–62, 247, 248
Broun, Heywood, 26
Brown, Elliott, 209
Brown, Raymond, 167
Brown, Wilson, 473
Browning, Robert, 91
Bruenn, Howard, 494–96, 497, 498, 499, 500, 502, 503, 527, 537, 545, 563, 564, 578, 584, 598, 601, 602–603
Bryan, 523
Budd, Ralph, 55
Bugbee, Emma, 183
Bulge, Battle of the, 564–68, 578, 609
Bullitt, William, 17, 62, 70, 154–55, 242, 536
Bulloch, Martha, see Roosevelt, Martha Bulloch
Burke, Edmund, 310, 544
Burma, 316, 342, 405
Burnett, Laurence, 422
Burns, James MacGregor, 297, 485–486, 532, 582
Bush, Vannevar, 590
Business Week, 413
Buttinger, Joseph, 102–3, 104, 175
Byers, Jean, 567, 626–27
Byrnes, James F., 107, 115, 129, 359, 440, 469, 487, 526, 527, 530, 559, 574–79, 585, 588, 616
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 577
Cabinet, U.S., 214, 284, 393, 570, 586, 613, 615
aging of, 500
and attack on Pearl Harbor, 292
British financial crisis discussed in, 190–91
FDR and, 71–72, 604
oil embargo and, 265–66
postelection period and, 563–64
Soviet Union and, 255, 261–62
Cadden, Joseph, 140–41
Cadogan, Alexander, 461–62, 577
Calvert, Harold, 356
Campbell, Mary, 542
Canada, 142, 145–46, 343, 354
Cannon, Jimmy, 291
Caribbean tour, 492, 493–94
Carl, Helen, 464
Carney, Frank, 538
Carroll, Sophia, 440
Casablanca, 399
Casablanca Conference (1943), 399, 401–8
Catherine II (the Great), Empress of Russia, 601
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 282
Catton, Bruce, 56, 71, 559, 608
Caudell, Marion, 50
Cavell, Edith, 73
CBS, 100, 264
Celler, Emmanuel, 316
Chaffee, Adna, 52
Chamberlain, John, 589
Chamberlain, Neville, 32, 38
Chamber of Commerce, U.S., 53–54, 156
Chaney, Mayris, 282, 324–25
Chase, Stuart, 18
Chelmno concentration camp, 396, 515
Cherwell, Lord, 5
44
Chiang, Madame, 473–74, 594
Chiang Kai-shek, 283, 471
Chicago Daily News, 71
Chicago Defender, 253
Chicago Sunday Tribune, 459
Chicago Tribune, 153, 181
child care, 416–17, 622
Childs, Marquis, 31–32, 114, 215, 290, 294, 325, 356
China, Republic of, 23, 283, 286, 470, 474, 560, 580
Christmas Carol (Dickens), 306, 568
Chrysler, 362–63
Churchill, Clementine, 311, 313, 342–343, 379, 392, 508, 542–46, 576
Churchill, Mary, 456–57
Churchill, Sarah, 473, 474, 575, 576
Churchill, Winston, 10, 24, 33, 63, 64, 66, 70, 152, 196, 278, 283, 317, 320, 362, 392, 479, 506, 563, 588, 606
appointed prime minister, 33, 38
at Atlantic Conference, 263–67
atomic bomb and, 346–47, 546
and attack on Pearl Harbor, 290–91
bathtub story and, 312
on Big Week bombing effort, 488
at Casablanca Conference, 401–8
and conscription of women, 380
cross-Channel invasion opposed by, 343, 345–48, 439
“Declaration of United Nations” signed by, 313
de Gaulle and, 406–7
destroyers-for-bases deal and, 142, 146–47, 148
ER and, 311–12, 379, 381–82, 391, 457, 543
fall of Tobruk and, 347–48, 437
FDR contrasted with, 264, 308–9
FDR’s death and, 605
FDR’s personal relationship with, 33, 38, 42, 64, 192, 310–11, 313, 347, 379, 386, 408, 419, 506, 545
FDR’s proposed European tour and, 596
FDR’s speeches and, 68, 407–8
FDR-Stalin relationship and, 476–477
and FDR’s views on India, 343
at first Quebec Conference, 456, 459–62
Hopkins’s friendship with, 212–13, 215, 257, 342–43
irregular routine of, 461–62
joint session of Congress addressed by, 307–10
lend-lease debate and, 213–14
Morgenthau Plan and, 544
Moscow trip of, 348
in “My Day,” 300, 543
North Africa invasion and, 348, 389
Overlord and, 477, 506–8
poems recited by, 438, 577
Polish free elections and, 597
second front and, 342–43, 345
at second Quebec Conference, 542–46
sixty-ninth birthday of, 477
Soviet invasion and, 254–55
speech preparation of, 308–9
at Teheran Conference, 473–77
at Trident Conference, 437
U.S. visits of, 300–305, 343–47, 432, 435–36, 438–39, 456–57
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