Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
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meetings (26 May): first
second
third
meetings (27 May): first
second
third
pessimism of
and risks entailed in negotiations
‘Suggested Approach to Signor
Mussolini’
Warlimont, Major-General Walter
and declaration of war on United States
Warthegau (Gau Wartheland)
Washington Nine Power Treaty (1922)
Watson, Major General Edwin W., military aide to FDR
Weizsäcker, Ernst von, German Foreign Ministry
and declaration of war on United States
and Japanese entry into war
Welles, Sumner, US Under-Secretary of State
and opposition to Hitler
and repeal of neutrality laws
rivalry with Hull
visit to Europe
Werth, Alexander, British journalist in Moscow
Weygand, General Maxime, French Commander-in-Chief
Wheeler, Burton K., US Senator
White, William Allen, support for US intervention
Willkie, Wendell, US presidential candidate
and support for deal on destroyers
Wilson, Woodrow, US President
Woodring, Harry H., US Secretary of War
Yamamoto Isoroku, Admiral
Yonai Mitsumasa, Admiral, as Prime Minister
Yoshida Zengo, Admiral, Navy Minister
resignation
Yoshihito, emperor of Japan
Yugoslavia, Mussolini’s ambitions in
Zante, Greece
Zhdanov, Andrei
Zhukov, General Georgi
and suggestion of pre-emptive strike
war plans
About the Author
Ian Kershaw studied at Liverpool and Oxford universities. He has taught at the University of Manchester, at the Ruhr University in Bochum, West Germany, at the University of Nottingham and since 1989 has been professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield. He is the author, most recently, of Making Friends with Hitler, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and the definitive two-volume biography of Hitler Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis. The first volume was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, and the second volume won the Wolfson Literary Award for History and the inaugural British Academy Prize.