Thoma, Wilhelm von (general), [>]–[>]
Thomas, Elbert D. (senator), [>]
Thompson, Tommy (commander): reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>]
Thomsen, Hans, [>]
Thomsen, Malvina, [>]
Timoshenko, Semyon (marshal), [>]
Tobruk, surrender of (1942), [>], [>], [>], [>]
Brooke and, [>]
Cadogan and, [>]
Churchill and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Dill on, [>]
FDR’s reaction to, [>]
German reaction to, [>]–[>]
Goebbels and, [>]–[>], [>]
Halifax and, [>]
Harriman and, [>]
Long on, [>]–[>]
Rommel and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Todt, Fritz, [>]
Togo, Shigenori, [>], [>]
Tojo, Hideki, [>], [>]
Tokyo: Doolittle bombs, [>]
Tripartite Pact (1940), [>]–[>], [>]
Truscott, Lucian, Jr. (general), [>]
Tugwell, Rexford, [>]
Tully, Grace, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>]–[>]
Turner, Richmond K. (admiral): and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]
and war planning, [>]
Tydings-McDuffie Act (1934), [>]–[>]
Ugaki, Matome (admiral), [>]–[>]
“Ultra” (intelligence): Churchill’s use of, [>]
at El Alamein, [>]
FDR’s use of, [>]
United Nations: Allied coalition as, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
United States: and amphibious warfare, [>], [>]
anti-British sentiment in, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
anti-Japanese sentiment in, [>], [>], [>]
assault on Guadalcanal, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Australia turns to, [>]
British Dominions turn to, [>]–[>], [>]
Churchill shifts blame to, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
declares war on Germany and Italy, [>]–[>]
declares war on Japan, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and defense of India, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Germany declares war on, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
inability to relieve Philippines, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
isolationism in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Japan terminates “peace” negotiations with, [>]–[>], [>]
Japan threatens mainland of, [>], [>]
lack of preparedness for war, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Linlithgow despises, [>]
Long on military isolation of, [>]
military aid to Allies, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
military aid to China, [>], [>], [>], [>]
military aid to Soviet Union, [>]
and neutrality, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and Philippine independence, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Philippines as ally of, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
protects Australia and New Zealand, [>]
relationship with Soviet Union, [>]
rise to world power, [>]–[>]
as senior partner in Allied coalition, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
shift in relations with Great Britain, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
threat of air raids on, [>]–[>], [>]
unwilling to preserve British Empire, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Vichy France as possible ally of, [>], [>], [>]
war production, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
unity of command: Brooke opposes, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Churchill and, [>], [>]
FDR insists on, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Jacob on, [>]
Japan and, [>], [>]
Marshall recommends, [>]–[>]
Navy opposes, [>]
U.S. Air Corps. See U.S. Army Air Forces
U.S. Army: “citizen” character of, [>]–[>]
decrypts Japan’s “Purple” code, [>]
and desert fighting, [>]–[>]
lack of cooperation with Navy, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
North Africa landings as necessary experience for, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
reinforces Philippines, [>]–[>], [>]
Second Armored Division’s tanks reinforce Egypt, [>], [>], [>], [>]
U.S. Army Air Forces, [>], [>]
Arnold builds, [>]–[>]
compared to Japanese Navy, [>]–[>]
and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>]
U.S. Congress: Churchill addresses (1941), [>]–[>]
power to declare war, [>], [>]
reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>]
wartime security for, [>]
U.S. Conservation Corps, [>], [>]
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff: and “Japan First” strategy, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Leahy and, [>]–[>], [>]
U.S. Marine Corps: and amphibious warfare, [>]
U.S. Navy: errors of judgment by, [>]
FDR’s personal preference for, [>]–[>], [>]
fleet augmented at Pearl Harbor, [>]
lack of cooperation with Army, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and needs of modern warfare, [>]–[>]
opposes unity of command, [>]
and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
rebuilding of at Pearl Harbor, [>], [>]–[>]
use of air power by, [>]–[>]
U.S. War Department: erroneous predictions by, [>], [>]–[>]
FDR’s reaction to mutiny by, [>]–[>]
mutinies against FDR, [>]–[>]
opposes proposed North Africa landings, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
resistance to FDR in, [>], [>]
unauthorized leaks by, [>], [>], [>]
U.S. War Production Board, [>], [>]
Vichy France. See France, Vichy
“Victory Plan”: FDR and preparation of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
McCormick leaks, [>], [>], [>], [>]
North Africa landings in, [>], [>]–[>]
Wainwright, Jonathan (general), [>], [>]
Wake Island: Japan attacks, [>], [>]
Wallace, Henry, [>], [>]
war crimes trials: FDR plans, [>]–[>]
war production: of Canada, [>]
Churchill and, [>]–[>]
FDR announces goals for, [>], [>]
FDR tours, [>]–[>], [>]
of Germany, [>]
Halifax on, [>]
of Japan, [>], [>]
Suckley on, [>]–[>], [>]
of U.S., [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
women in, [>]
warfare, amphibious: Hart on, [>]
U.S. and, [>], [>]
U.S. Marines and, [>]
warfare, modern: Churchill’s ignorance of, [>]
FDR and, [>]
Hart and needs of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Navy and needs of, [>]–[>]
Royal Navy’s ignorance of, [>]
Washington, George, [>], [>]
Watson, Edwin (general), [>]–[>], [>]
at Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>], [>], [>]
Wavell, Sir Archibald (general), [>]
and Hart, [>], [>]
and India, [>], [>], [>], [>]
and Singapore, [>], [>]–[>]
as supreme theater commander, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Wedemeyer, Albert (colonel), [>]
distrusts Churchill, [>]
and proposed North Africa landings, [>], [>]
Welles, Sumner, [>], [>]
and declaration of war, [>]
drafts Atlantic Charter, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]<
br />
at Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Weygand, Maxime (general), [>], [>], [>]
Wheeler, Burton K. (senator): as isolationist, [>], [>]
White House: Churchill’s Christmas visit to (1941–42), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Map Room, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
wartime communications facilities, [>]–[>]
wartime security for, [>]–[>], [>]
Wilhelmina, Queen, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Willkie, Wendell, [>], [>]
proposes MacArthur as “commander in chief,” [>]–[>]
and Second Front strategy, [>]
Wilson, Sir Charles: on Churchill, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Churchill’s White House visit, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
on FDR, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Winant, John (ambassador), [>], [>], [>], [>]
Windsor, Duke and Duchess of, [>]
Wolfe, James (general), [>]–[>]
women: in war production, [>]
World War I, [>], [>]
military command in, [>]
World War II: and collapse of British Empire, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Yamamoto, Isoroku (admiral): and Battle of Coral Sea, [>]–[>]
and Battle of Midway (1942), [>]–[>]
and Doolittle Raid (1942), [>]
King and, [>]
and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>]
targets Midway, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Yorktown (aircraft carrier), [>], [>]
Zhukov, Georgy (general), [>]
About the Author
NIGEL HAMILTON is a best-selling and award-winning biographer of President John F. Kennedy, General Bernard “Monty” Montgomery, and President Bill Clinton, among other subjects. He is a senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and was the first president of the Biographers International Organization. He lives in Boston and New Orleans.
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