Billard, Frank, 434
Birkenau camp, 443
Bismarck (ship) sunk, 151, 167, 168–169
Bitche, Germany, captured, 509
Black Shirts, Italy, 5, 6, 7
Blackout switch, 227
Blackouts, 235
in Texas, 242–243
Blitz, London, 115, 128, 129, 133, 135
Blitzkrieg, North Africa, 152
Bloch, C.C., 221
Blond hair needed for airplane instruments, 250
Blum, Leon, 11, 12
Bologna, Italy, battle of, 522–523
map, 522
Bombay riots, 275, 276
Bomber plane production, 257–258
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 113, 117
Bong, Richard Ira “Ace of Aces”, 420
Bor, General, 474
Bougainville, 391
Bracker, Milton, 511
Bradley, Omar, 431, 450–451, 461, 463, 493
Braun, Eva, death, 511
Brenner Pass Axis meeting, 134
Brest-Litovsk, captured by Soviets, 431
Bretton Woods conference, 447
British Auxiliary Territorial Transport Service, 80
British Broadcasting Corporation, 104
British Department of Overseas Trade, 158
British Empire aid to Britain, 136
British Expeditionary Force in France, 64, 254
evacuated from Dunkirk, 104, 105
British Far Eastern Fleet, 227
British First Airborne Division wiped out, 471
British Navy, 62–63
Brittany, battles in, 453, 455
Brock, Ray, 151
Brooke-Popham, Robert, 204
Brouchitsc, Walter von, 97
Brown, Edgar G., 222
Buchenwald camp, visited by Congress & press, 524
Bulgaria, 161
surrender to Soviet Union, 453
Bulge, Battle of the, 473, 485–487, 488, 489–491, 493, 494–495
map, 486, 490
Buna, New Guinea, 299–301
Burma, battles in, 245
Burma-China road, 134
Byrnes, James F., 566, 574
C
Cadogan, Alexander, 462
Caen, battles for, 431, 435, 455
Cairo Conference, 383, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395
Callender, Harold, 359
Canada, at war, 42
Nazi’s arrested in, 43
sending supplies, 136
Canton, China, 78
Cargo liners, abandoned, 206
sinking of, 206
Casablanca Conference, 285, 308, 309, 310–313
Cassino, battle at, 411, 417
Castellano, Giuseppe, 371
Caucasus, 269, 270
Celebes, captured, 245
Cemetery salvage, 295
Chamberlain, Neville, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 33, 36, 40, 44, 61, 62, 78, 85, 86–87, 142
announcement of war, 31, 40
death, 141–142
resignation, 93–94
Chancellery, Berlin, 530, 557
Channel Ports, battles, 101–102, 103
Chavez, Dennis, 450
Chelm, Poland, Jews in, 77
Chennault, Claire L., 300, 301
Cherbourg, captured by Allies, 431
Chiang, Kai-shek, 3, 53–54, 83, 134, 247, 383, 393, 394, 395, 563, 579
Children, with working mothers, 270–271
China, 3, 8, 53, 67, 78–79, 83, 126, 267, 271–273, 300–301, 431
censorship, 422, 475
Chiupa soldier, 272
Communists, 365–366, 389, 470, 539, 556, 563, 579, 583, 593
Civil War in, 563
Japanese prison camps in, 387–389
Nationalists, 3, 365–366, 556, 579, 593
soldiers, 272
Chiupa, China, 271
Chou, En-Lai, 365, 470, 556
Christian, King of Denmark, 88
Churchill, Winston, 17, 61, 62, 80, 85, 86, 89, 94, 115, 116, 118, 134, 139, 142, 196, 197, 220, 231, 236, 249, 255, 267, 279–280, 286–287, 383, 399, 471, 517–518, 519
at Potsdam conference, 542, 543
Atlantic Charter, 193, 196–198
becomes Prime Minister, 94
biography, 94
criticism of, 249, 254, 255
“Man of the Year”, 151
meetings with Roosevelt, 263, 308, 309, 310, 311–313, 391–393, 394, 395, 400, 401, 402
on D-Day, 436
on Communist Iron Curtain, 563, 572–573
ousted as Prime Minister, 539, 543–544
quotes, 232
speeches, 106, 110, 232
supports Soviet Union, 175, 169–180
warns of invasion, 129
Ciano, Galeazzo, 134
Citizens Committee to Keep America Out of War, 121, 181
Civil defense measures, 235
Civil liberties in war, 236
Civilization, survival of, 49, 69, 121, 548
Clark Field, Manilla, 225–226
Clark, Mark, 432
Clemenceau, Premier, 4
Coblenz, Germany fighting, 509
Code breaking, 315
Cold War, 539, 563
Cologne, Germany, bombing by British, 120, 260
Colombo, Ceylon, attacked, 249, 251
map, 251
Comanche code service, 148
Committee for Economic Development, 553
Communism, in Asia, 583
worldwide, 563
Compiègne, 111, 112
Concentration camps liberated, 514–515, 523–524
Congress of the Academy for German Law, 144
Cooper, Kent 90
Coordinator of Defense Information, 185
Copenhagen, Denmark, Gestapo in, 387
Coral Sea battle, 249, 253–254, 262
Corregidor, battle of, 249, 252, 256
Corsica, 291–292
Coughlin, Charles E., 24
Courageous (ship) sunk, 63
Coventry, bombing, 133, 143
Cathedral, 143
Cracow, battle for, 497, 498
Craigie, Robert Leslie, 218
Crete, German invasion, 151, 172–173
Cripps, Stafford, 177
Currency stabilization proposal, 327–328 447–448
Cvetkovitch, Dragisha, 158
Czechoslovakia, Prague invasion by Germany, 3, 18–19
Sudeten land transfer to Germany, 3, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
map, 19
Communist coup, 563, 579, 582
D
Dachau camp, 511
liberated, 528, 529
Dai, Bao, 592
Daladier, Edouard, 21, 27, 36, 42, 61
resignation, 81–82
Daniell, Raymond, 133, 285, 411
“Britain is Defiant” speech, 115
Danzig, Poland, 3, 23–24, 25, 32, 34–36
Darlan, François, 285
Darnton, Barney, 235
Darwin, Australia, bombed, 246
Daylight Saving bill, 239
D-Day, 434, 435, 436, 437
censorship about, 438–439
preparations for, 437–438
De Gaulle, Charles, 119, 285, 304, 305, 347–348, 359, 534, 539
Fourth Republic advocated, 554
Free French government, 138–139, 285, 347–348, 405, 406, 407
on D-Day, 437
in liberated Paris, 462, 465
wins election, 570–571
De Haar, Captain, 371
Declaration of Independence, 328
Demobilization in Great Britain, 553
Denazification of Germany, 564–565
Denmark, invasion by Germany, 85, 88
Jews flee to Sweden, 387
neutrality of, 79
Dentz, Henri Fernand, 167
Dessau, Germany, 26
Detroit, conversion of auto factories, 237, 238, 257–258
Dewey, Thomas E., 90, 480
Dick, Royer, 371
Diepe, France, 267, 276–277
Diptheria immunizations in London, 513
Dnieper River, battle of, 389
with German Troop ferry, 198
Dogs used by U.S. Marines, 391
Dönitz, Karl, 315, 316
Donovan, William J. 185
Doughboys, 4
Draft (Selective service), 144
Dresden, Germany, bombed by RAF, 503
Dumbarton Oaks Peace Conference, 453, 462, 463, 506, 544–545
agreement on world setup, 471, 475
Dunkerque. See Dunkirk.
Dunkirk, 85
evacuation from, 103, 104, 105, 115
Duranty, Walter, 175, 177
Dutch East Indies, 123
attacked, 235
unrest in, 565
E
Early, Stephen, 239
East Africa, invasion by British, 151
East African Campaign, 155–156, 159
map, 159
East Germany, 563
Eastern Front, 175–191, 193, 198, 201–207, 258–259, 264, 274, 278–279, 286–287, 295–296, 305–306, 335, 349–350, 350–351, 359, 389, 448–449, 493, 495–496, 497–498, 519, 520, 524–534
joins with Western Front, 526, 527, 528
map, 448
Moscow map, 207
Stalin Line map, 186, 195
Eden, Anthony, 126
Egypt, war in, 124, 130, 147, 148, 152, 263
Ehrenburg, Ilya, 359, 379
Einstein, Albert, 13
Eisenhower jacket designed, 505
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 271, 304, 335, 338, 345, 346, 371, 407, 411, 453, 473, 483–484, 493, 501, 523, 524, 525, 531, 564–565
at Cairo Conference, 395
moves headquarters to Normandy, 458
moves SHAEF headquarters to Paris, 473, 474
named chief of US European forces, 265
to lead invasion of Europe, 407–409, 412, 413, 414, 422, 423, 424, 435, 464
receives German surrender, 511, 534
El Alamein, battle of, 268, 285, 288, 289
truck convoy, 288
Elizabeth, Queen of Great Britain, 127
England. See Great Britain.
Entente Cordiale, 116
Epidemics in Europe, 513–514
Essex (aircraft carrier) launched, 273
Estonia, invasion by Soviet Union, 58
Ethiopia, battles in, 159, 184
invasion by Italy, 3, 14, 15, 155
trade with, 14
Europe, fifteen outstanding events of war, 125
Allied invasion of, 383, 403–404, 411, 412–413, 422–423, 434, 435, 436, 437, 483–484
epidemics in, 513
map, 120, 125
Soviet “zone of influence”, 567–568
unity, 577, 582–583, 594
wartime life, 138–139, 438–439. See also D-Day
European Recovery Program. See Marshall Plan.
Evacuation of children in Great Britain, 32, 33, 34–35
F
Falaise Gap, 453, 460–461
Federal Price Administrator, 237
Feisal II, King of Iraq, 171
Finland, 177–178
invasion by Soviet Union, 67, 68, 70, 71, 73, 76–77, 81
map, 81
ski troops, 67
First Ukrainian Army Group, 493, 511
Flame throwers, 362
Flanders, 104
Flank attack, 97
Florence, Italy, battles, for, 455–456
Foch, Marshal, 4
Footwear, straw, in Germany, 199
Ford Willow Run plant, 257, 258
Ford, Edsel, 257
Foreign correspondents, 64, 90, 153–154, 434, 474, 521–523
Forster, Albert, 34, 36
France, 2
diplomatic relations with Britain severed, 116
bombings of Northern France by Allies, 411, 425
Fourth Republic, 554
invasion by Allies, 411, 413, 431, 436–437, 442, 453, 458, 458–461, 463
invasion by Germany, 85, 101–103, 104, 107–108, 109, 111–112, 115
Italo-French armistice, 111, 112
Premier change, 81–82
reaction to Hitler’s election, 12
map of Allied invasion, 459
mobilization, 27–28, 36–37
peace overtures by Germany, 59–61
totally in German control, 291–292
underground movement, 461
Franco, Francisco, 3, 24, 25, 31, 41, 60, 131
Frank, Hans, 67, 144
French Committee of National Liberation, 359, 367–368
French First Army, 498
French forces in Great Britain, 119
French Underground, 119
G
Gallup, George, 65, 106, 129
Galway, General Viscount, 43
Gamelin, Marie Gustave, 37, 102
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 53, 67, 68, 115, 116, 140, 247, 267, 315, 320
arrested, 275, 276
fast, 320, 325
“Quit India” campaign, 263
killed, 580–581
release, 425–426
self-rule demands, 454, 539
Gas masks to British populace, 16, 17
General Electric expansion, 1
George IV, King of Great Britain, 127
George, Lloyd, 4, 94
Georgetown University, personality poll, 80
German Army, on Champs-Elysées, 109
tactics, 97–98
Germany, 2–4, 124
airplane losses, 127
airplane warfare, 162–163
arms equality, 8–9
blockade by Great Britain, 80–81
bombed by Britain, 120, 283
cigarette use in, 79
currency devaluation, 7–8
fighting to end, 46
industrial mobilization, 45
invasion by Allies, 464–467, 468–469, 500–501, 501–502, 519, 520
map, 120, 500
Nazi riots in, 23
oil industry bombed, 434
partners with Soviet Union, 59
peace overtures to Allies, 59, 62
postwar rebuilding, 555, 556, 559
postwar status, 470, 576–577
preparations for war, 38
rationing in, 38
Roosevelt death cheered, 519
soldiers surrender, 525
Soviet Union invasion, 170, 175–191, 194–196, 198, 201–207, 211–214, 258–259, 264, 274, 278–279, 286–287, 295–296
surrender, 511, 529–530, 533, 534, 536
Tri-Partite Pact, 115
troops, 50
weapons, 366
Werewolf underground propaganda, 525. See also Atlantic theater of war; Eastern Front; Western front; individual battles.
Gerolstein prisoner of war camp, 515
Gestapo, 259, 525
Gibralter, 215
Gilbert Islands, battle of, 383
heavy losses by U.S. at, 396, 397–398
Giraud, Henri, 285, 304–305, 345, 347–348, 359
Gleiwitz, Germany, 26, 28
Glenville Flying School, Chicago, 138
Glider bombs, 399
Goebbels, Joseph, 154, 366, 511
death, 530
Goering, Hermann Wilhelm, 12, 46, 165, 311, 312, 575
resignation, 526
trial, 568–569, 574
suicide death, 575, 576
Gomel, Soviet Union, fighting at, 198
Graf Spee (ship) sunk, 67, 74, 75
Graziani, Rodolfo, 133, 147, 155–156
Great Britain, 2–3, 16–17, 124
aid to Low Countries, 92–93
airplane losses, 127
appeasement policy, 18–19, 21
Blitz, 115, 128, 133, 135, 151
blockade of Germany, 80–81
censorship in, 152
clothing donations to so
ldiers, 238
Communism purge, 584–585
demobilization in, 553
“Destroyers-for-Bases” deal, 115
evacuation of children and invalids from cities, 32, 33, 34, 35, 47, 48
finances, 155
firefighters, 128
freezes Japanese assets, 187
materials from Empire, 136
freedom of expression, 78
gas masks to populace, 16–17
in Egypt, 124, 147, 148, 155
in Iran, 199
in Libya, 147, 155
in Norway, 91
in Singapore, 204
invasion by Germany, 102–103, 129, 130
morale high, 127
mourns Roosevelt, 517, 518
offensive strategy, 312–313
peace overtures by Germany, 59, 62, 118
rationing, 75
shipping convoys, 53
V-1 bombings, 441
war-time life, 47–48, 138–139
women working in, 80. See also Atlantic theater of war; Western front; individual battles.
Great Depression, 2, 7, 67
Greece, aid to, 578
British in, 151
defeat, 151, 161
German invasion, 151, 161
Italy attacking, 133, 139, 140, 141, 144–145, 151
recaptured, 479–480
civil war in, 563, 568, 581, 587, 593
Greenland, 125
Grew, Joseph C., 218
Gromyko, Andrei A., 462
Groves, Leslie, 539
Guadalcanal, battle of, 267, 282–283, 285, 301–302, 306, 457
Guam, 219, 220
recapture of, 431, 450, 451
Guerrilla warfare by Russians, 189–190
H
Haiphong, Indo-China, Japan right to land, 126
Halsey, William F., 468–469, 477, 496
Hamburg, Germany, bombing, 335, 355, 356
Hammelburg prisoner of war camp, 515
Hanfstaengl, E.F., 7
Hangchow falls to Communists, 593
Harlem riots 1943, 343
Harriman, W. Averell, 205
Harris, Arthur, 411, 420, 421
Havana conference (1940), 117
Hawaii, Japan attacks, 218–222
Heavy water, 315, 326–327
Henderson, Leon, 237
Hertz, J.H., 324
Hess, Rudolf, 164–165, 390
map of flight, 165
sanity, 166
trial, 568–569
Heydrich, Reinhard, 249
death, 259, 263
Hillman, Stanley, 235, 242
Himmler, Heinrich, 297, 535
Hindenburg, Paul von, 9, 10
Hirohito, Emperor, 12, 209, 513, 551
Hiroshima, atomic bombing, 539, 544, 545, 571
Hitler Youth Organization, 137
Hitler, Adolf, 2–3, 7, 9, 10, 18–23, 27–29, 31–37, 40–41, 42, 44, 48, 55–56, 59, 60–62, 67, 76, 80, 85, 94, 95, 107, 109, 110, 111, 113, 124–125, 129, 130, 131, 139, 144, 161, 165, 177, 184, 193, 230, 243, 249, 254, 255, 286–287, 311, 312, 349–350, 355, 389, 400, 463, 511, 519, 526, 568–569
appointed Chancellor, 3, 10, 11, 12
assassination attempt, 431, 445, 446, 455
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