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  Malaya: Japan invades, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  maps: FDR’s love of, [>]

  Marshall, George C. (general), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  administrative abilities, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  attacks British military abilities, [>]

  attacks politicians, [>]

  attempts to limit North Africa landings, [>]

  character and personality, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  on Combined Chiefs of Staff, [>]

  compared to Brooke, [>]

  criticizes British Army, [>]

  distrusts Churchill, [>], [>]

  and Doolittle Raid, [>]–[>]

  and German invasion of Soviet Union, [>]

  and MacArthur, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  opposes proposed North Africa landings, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  opposes U.S. reinforcement in Egypt, [>], [>]

  and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  at Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  and proposed landing in France, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  proposes “Japan First” strategy, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  recommends unity of command, [>]–[>]

  relationship with FDR, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  and Second Front strategy, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  and sedition, [>], [>]

  on U.S. lack of preparedness, [>]

  and War Department mutiny, [>], [>]

  and war planning, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Martha, Princess, [>], [>], [>]

  Martin, John, [>]

  McClellan, George C. (general), [>], [>]

  McCloy, John, [>]

  McCormick, Robert: attacks FDR’s war plans, [>]

  charged with violation of Espionage Act, [>]

  as isolationist, [>]

  leaks secret military intelligence, [>]

  publishes “Victory Plan,” [>], [>], [>], [>]

  McCrea, John (captain), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  and Doolittle Raid, [>]–[>]

  on FDR, [>]–[>]

  and Shangri-la, [>]–[>]

  and war planning, [>]

  McIntire, Ross (admiral): as FDR’s physician, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  McNarney, Joseph (general), [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  opposes proposed North Africa landings, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and war planning, [>]

  Medal of Honor: Doolittle receives, [>]

  Middle East: British military collapse in, [>]

  Midway: Japan attacks (1941), [>], [>]

  Yamamoto targets, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Midway, Battle of (1942), [>], [>]

  Churchill complacent after, [>]–[>]

  Fletcher and, [>], [>]

  Japanese Navy defeated at, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  King and, [>]–[>]

  Nagumo and, [>], [>]

  Nimitz and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Spruance and, [>], [>]

  U.S. losses in, [>]

  U.S. preparations for, [>]–[>]

  Yamamoto and, [>]–[>]

  Mikoyan, Artem, [>]

  Molotov, Vyacheslav, [>], [>], [>]

  Montgomery, Bernard (general), [>]

  commands Eighth Army, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  at El Alamein, [>]–[>], [>]

  Montgomery, Robert (lieutenant): and presidential security, [>], [>]

  Morgenthau, Henry: on Churchill, [>]–[>]

  and presidential security, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>]–[>]

  Morton, H. V.: at Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>], [>]

  Mott, William C. (lieutenant), [>], [>]

  Mountbatten, Louis (admiral): lies about losses in Dieppe raid (1942), [>]

  and proposed landing in France, [>]

  proposes Dieppe raid, [>]

  Murphy, Robert: and North Africa landings, [>], [>]–[>]

  Murrow, Edward R.: and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>]

  Muslim League, [>]

  Mussolini, Benito, [>], [>]

  Nagumo, Chuichi (admiral), [>]

  and Battle of Midway (1942), [>], [>]

  Nehru, Jawaharlal, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Nelson, Donald, [>], [>]

  Netherlands East Indies: Allies defend, [>], [>], [>]

  fall of, [>], [>]

  Japan invades, [>], [>], [>]

  neutrality: U.S. and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Neutrality Act (1939), [>]

  New Zealand: in Allied coalition, [>]

  Japan threatens, [>], [>], [>]

  U.S. protects, [>]

  Newfoundland summit meeting (1941). See Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941)

  Nicolson, Harold: criticizes British troops, [>]–[>]

  Nimitz, Chester (admiral): and Battle of Midway (1942), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and “Japan First” strategy, [>]

  and Japanese Navy, [>]–[>]

  as supreme theater commander, [>]–[>]

  use of “Magic,” [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  and war planning, [>]

  Nogues, Charles (general), [>]

  Nomura, Kichisaburo (ambassador): and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  North Africa: British Eighth Army in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Italy in, [>]

  North Africa landings, proposed, [>], [>], [>]

  Arnold opposes, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Churchill and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  FDR and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Hitler and, [>]

  Hopkins and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  King opposes, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Knox and, [>]

  Leahy and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Marshall opposes, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  McNarney opposes, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Stimson opposes, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  strategic value of, [>]–[>]

  in “Victory Plan,” [>], [>]–[>]

  War Department opposes, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Wedemeyer and, [>], [>]

  North Africa landings (Operation Torch, 1942), [>]–[>]

  armistice, [>]–[>]

  British Army excluded from, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Churchill and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Darlan and, [>]–[>], [>]

  domestic political impact of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Eisenhower as supreme commander of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  FDR and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  German reaction to, [>], [>]–[>]

  Giraud and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Goebbels and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Hewitt and, [>]–[>], [>]

  Hitler’s ignorance of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Hitler’s reaction to, [>]–[>]

  Hopkins and, [>], [>]

  Hull and, [>]

  Italy and, [>], [>]

  King and, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Leahy
and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Mackenzie King and, [>], [>]

  Marshall and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Marshall attempts to limit, [>]

  Murphy and, [>], [>]–[>]

  as necessary experience for U.S. Army, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Patton and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Pétain and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  planning and preparations for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  public announcement of, [>]–[>], [>]

  Rommel and, [>]

  Royal Navy and, [>]

  Sherwood on, [>]

  Spain and, [>], [>]

  Stalin and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Stimson and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Stimson attempts to limit, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  strategic importance of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Suckley and, [>]–[>]

  Vichy France and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Norway: Churchill proposes invasion of, [>], [>], [>]

  Operation Barbarossa. See Germany: war with Soviet Union

  Operation Bolero. See France: proposed Allied landing in

  Operation Edelweiss, [>]

  Operation Gymnast. See North Africa landings, proposed

  Operation Jubilee. See Dieppe, Canadian raid on (1942)

  Operation Sledgehammer. See France: proposed Allied landing in

  Operation Torch. See North Africa landings (Operation Torch, 1942)

  Osawa, Jisaburo (admiral), [>]

  Osmeña, Sergio, [>]–[>]

  Pacific Ocean: FDR’s strategy in, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Pacific War Council, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Panama Canal Zone, [>]

  Pan-American Union: FDR addresses, [>]

  Patton, George S. (general), [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  character and personality, [>]

  FDR on, [>]

  and North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Paulus, Friedrich (general), [>]

  Pearl Harbor: FDR visits, [>]

  fear of sabotage at, [>]

  fleet augmented at, [>]

  rebuilding of Navy at, [>], [>]–[>]

  Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Army Air Forces and, [>], [>], [>]

  Arnold and, [>], [>], [>]

  Berle and, [>]

  Biddle and, [>]

  Bloch and, [>]

  Churchill and, [>]–[>]

  congressional reaction to, [>]–[>]

  Connally and, [>]–[>]

  conspiracy theories about, [>]–[>]

  damage incurred, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Donovan and, [>]–[>]

  Early and, [>], [>]

  FDR’s reaction to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Hitler’s reaction to, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Hopkins and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Hull and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Japanese Navy in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Kimmel and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Knox and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  lack of preparedness for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  MacArthur and, [>]

  “Magic” and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Marshall and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Morgenthau and, [>], [>]–[>]

  Murrow and, [>]–[>]

  Navy and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Nomura and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Perkins and, [>]

  Poindexter and, [>], [>]

  public’s reaction to, [>], [>]–[>]

  Safford and, [>]

  Sherwood and, [>]

  Stark and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Stimson and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  as strategic preemptive act, [>], [>], [>]

  Thompson and, [>]

  Tully and, [>], [>]–[>]

  Turner and, [>]

  Winant and, [>]

  Yamamoto and, [>]–[>]

  Percival, Arthur (general): and Singapore, [>], [>], [>]

  Perkins, Frances: and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

  Pershing, John J. (general), [>], [>]

  Pétain, Philippe (marshal), [>], [>], [>]

  and North Africa landings (1942), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Philippines: fall of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  FDR orders continued resistance in, [>]–[>], [>]

  impossibility of U.S. relief, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  independence from U.S., [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Japan attacks, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Japanese atrocities in, [>], [>]

  MacArthur’s military failures in, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  resists Japanese invasion, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Stimson as governor-general of, [>]–[>]

  as U.S. ally, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  U.S. military reinforcements in, [>]–[>], [>]

  Phillips, Thomas (fleet admiral), [>]

  Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  church service at, [>]–[>]

  confusion and lack of preparation for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  FDR’s strategy for managing, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  joint declaration of principles at, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  journalists at, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  secrecy at, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Pogue, Forrest, [>]

  Poindexter, Joseph (governor): and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>]

  Portal, Charles (air marshal), [>], [>]

  Pound, Dudley (admiral), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Prince of Wales (battleship): sinking of, [>], [>]–[>]

  propaganda: FDR’s use of, [>]–[>], [>]

  Hitler’s use of, [>]

  Japan’s use of, [>]

  MacArthur’s use of, [>]–[>]

  “Purple” (Japanese code). See also “Magic” (decryption of “Purple” code)

  U.S. Army decrypts, [>]

  Quezon, Manuel (president): attacks FDR, [>]–[>]

  evacuation of, [>]–[>]

  FDR and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  MacArthur misinforms, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  MacArthur takes bribe from, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  proposes Philippine independence and neutrality, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Reid, Ogden, [>]

  Reynolds, David, [>]

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von: and declaration of war, [>]–[>], [>]

  proposes negotiations with Allies, [>]

  Ritchie, Neil (general), [>], [>]

  Rochefort, Joseph (commander), [>]

  Rogers, Paul P. (private), [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Rommel, Erwin (general), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  defeated at El Alamein, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Eighth Army flees from, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  forbidden to retreat, [>], [>]

  and North Africa landings (1942), [>]

  promoted to field marshal, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  retreats, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and surrender of Tobruk, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  threatens Egypt, [>]–[>], [>]–[>

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