Congressional Medal of Honor award, 209, 261
Connally, Tom, 47, 119, 164, 436
Connally resolution, 428
Connor, Eugene (“Bull”), 265
Conventions: Democratic, 277, 316, 488, 497, 504-507, 508-511, 525; Republican, 275, 501, 502, 510, 511
Convoys: American naval escort for British, 26, 87, 89, 98, 104, 105, 127, 141; to Great Britain, 38, 45, 57, 86, 89, 98, 111, 493; to Iceland, 141, 142; PQ-18, 310; to Russia, 233, 308, 310, suspended, 237, 288, 310, 313, 327-328, 367, 372
Co-Prosperity Sphere. See Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Coral Sea, Battle of the, 225, 261
Corcoran, Thomas, 62
Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, 251
Corregidor, 207, 209, 226
Corsica, 295, 311
Costa Rica, 185
Cotentin Peninsula, 473, 474, 475, 477
Coughlin, Father Charles, 211
Council of People’s Commissars, 95
Courts-martial, 493
Cowles, Gardner, 513
Cox, Eugene, 119
Cox, James M., 356, 512
Cox, Oscar, 351, 465
Coy, Wayne, 115, 452
Cracow, 536
Craig, May, 172, 553
Crete, 15, 76, 77, 204
Crimea, 232, 237, 558, 564, 566, 579, 582; conference in, see Yalta Conference
Cripps, Sir Stafford, 102, 113, 220, 221, 238, 240
Cross-channel invasion. See Second front Crossman, Richard, 385
Crowley, Leo T., 342
Cryptostegia (rubber project), 341
Cuba, 185
Culture, wartime, 466-472
Cunningham, Sir Andrew, 319, 407
Curacao, 450, 451
Currie, Lauchlin, 83, 242, 377, 451
Curtin, John, 204
Cuzon, Lord, 571
Curzon Line, 187, 536, 570, 571
Cyprus, 565
Cyrenaica, 285
Czechoslovakia, 15, 185, 474, 483
D day: (Europe) June 6, 1944, 473-477, 481, 484; (Pacific) February 19, 1945, 588
Dairen, 574, 577
Dakar, 10, 13, 289, 291
Dall, Curtis, Jr. (“Buzzie”) (grandson of F.D.R.), 269, 389, 447
Dall, Eleanor (“Sistie”) (granddaughter of F.D.R.), 269, 389, 447
Daniels, Jonathan, 432, 451, 562
Daniels, Josephus, 62, 300, 596
Danube River, 301
Danzig, 565, 582
Dardanelles, 16, 94, 181
Darlan, Jean-Francois, 109, 285, 286, 288, 291, 293, 294-298, 300, 319-320, 391, 422, 538, 548, 608
Davies, Joseph E., 102, 112, 368, 371
Davis, Elmer, 213, 267, 268, 296, 350, 385
Davis, James J., 532
Davis, John W., 356
Davis, William H., 195, 196, 264
Dead Sea, 406
Declaration of Allied Unity, 183-185
Declaration of war by the U.S.: on Germany and Italy, 175; on Japan, 165-167, 171
Declaration on Liberated Europe, 572
Defense Mediation Board, 192
Defense spending. See Budget
De Gaulle, Charles: character of, 286, 319, 320; and the Darlan deal, 287, 291, 295-296, 319-323; declines F.D.R.’s invitation to meet him in Algiers, 579; head of the Free French in London, 286; and Indochina, 591, 593; invited to England for D day, 481; kept out of negotiations with Vichy Frenchmen, 287, 291; meeting with Giraud, 320-323, 389: meetings with F.D.R., 320-323, 389, 480, 481, 482, 592; meeting with Stalin, 566; opinion of F.D.R., 482; re-enters Paris, 482; relations with Churchill, 295-296, 320-323, 481-482; relations with F.D.R., 287, 320-323, 480-481, 482, 566, 579, 591, 592-604; relieves Giraud of command, 480; Stalin’s opinion of, 407; symbol of French resistance, 319; trip to Washington, D.C., 481, 482; unauthorized occupation of French islands off Newfoundland by, 184
Delano, Laura, 599, 600
Delano, Warren, 379
Del Vayo, Alvarez, 391
Democratic National Committee, 290, 503; Chairman of, 176, 276, 503
Democratic party: Cabinet of 1941 reflects
main elements of, 39-40; coalition of liberals of, with Republican liberals, 274, 275-276, 279, 280, 511-512, 513, 524, 608; coalition of Republicans with Southern and conservative members of, 37, 40, 305, 534; collaboration of, with Republican party in Congress, 594; congressional campaign committee of, 276; convention of, (1932), 316, 497, 508, (1944), 277, 488, 504-507, 511, 525; congressional, 275, 280, 503, 510, 524, 534, 594; declared by F.D.R. to be the “party of sound money,” 528; defections from F.D.R., 497, 503, 510; division of, into two elements, 37, 510, 511; divisiveness in, 276-277, 503, 510, 511, 525; of Dutchess County, 279, 299, 524; election of 1910, 4; election of 1920, 4, 512; election of 1940, 3-4, 5-7, 33, 36; election of 1942, 274-281, 301; election of 1944, 497-498, 500-516, 521-534; fund-raising banquets of, 273; in Massachusetts, 503; members of, as dollar-a-year men, 88; National Chairman of, 176, 276, 503; in New York State. 277; presidential, 274, 276, 281, 499, 510; setbacks of, due to fall-off in voter participation, 524-525; shift of urban vote to, 40; Southern, 36-37, 40, 305, 421, 427, 431, 437, 506, 510, 511, 524; of Virginia, 426; under F.D.R., 7, 36-37, 513. See also Congress; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Denmark, 88, 104, 474
Dennis, Lawrence, 453
Destroyers, given to England, September 1940, 11-12, 13, 15, 33
Detroit, 268, 388, 466, 483
Deutscher, Isaac, 496
Dewey, John, 271
Dewey, Thomas E., 211, 275, 277, 281, 301, 400, 499, 501-503, 507, 508, 516, 521, 524, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 532, 533, 552
De Witt, John, 215
Dickerson, Earl B., 264
Dies Committee (House), 331
Dietz, Howard, 307
Dill, Sir John, 11, 75, 128, 182, 189, 318, 368, 407
Dilling, Elizabeth (“T.N.T.”), 48, 453
Discrimination. See Black Americans; Japanese-Americans; Mexican-Americans
Djilas, Milovan, 484
Dnieper River, 446
Dodecanese, 325
Doenitz, Karl, 243
Dominican Republic, 185
Don River, 237, 282, 308
Donovan, William J., 73, 74, 384
Doolittle, James, 224, 445, 588
Dos Passos, John, 468
Douglas, Emily Taft, 533
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 533
Douglas, Paul, 533
Douglas, William O., 194, 504, 505, 506, 509, 594
Douglas Plant, Long Beach, Calif., 270
Draft, the, 33, 38, 54, 120, 142, 246 265, 271, 335, 401
Drama, the, in wartime, 271
Drury, Allen, 450, 594, 595
Duel for Europe (Scott), 272
Duke of York, H.M.S., 176, 179
Dulles, Allen, 585
Dulles, John Foster, 516
Dumbarton Oaks Conference, 429, 515, 516, 518, 567
Dunkerque, 392
Dunkerque (French battleship), 65
Dun, Bishop Angus, 530, 606
Dunn, Gano, 52
Dunn, James, 398, 553
Du Pont (company), 455
Dutch. See Netherlands
Dutch East Indies. See East Indies
Dutch Guiana, 316
Dutch Harbor, Aleutians, 225
Early, Stephen, 8-9, 22, 61, 123, 163, 172, 176, 208, 291, 383, 451, 455, 503, 508, 530, 561, 602
East Indies, 13, 20. 21, 78, 90, 106, 109, 149, 155, 158, 160, 173, 180, 182, 186, 203, 204, 223, 443
East Prussia, 96, 565, 570
Ebbets Field, 525
Eccles, Marriner, 257, 352
Economic bill of rights, 34, 528
Economic policy, international, 514
Economic stabilization program, 256, 260-262, 339, 362-363, 424-426, 434. See also Budget; Inflation; Office of Economic Stabilization; Price control; Taxation; Wage control
Eden, Anthony, 11, 74, 75, 92, 102, 18
7, 188, 232, 238, 295, 312, 320, 364, 365-367, 389, 401, 407, 415, 515, 520, 537, 565, 567, 573, 574, 575, 577, 585
Edison, Charles, 277
Education, 355, 362, 464-465, 560
Education and Labor Subcommittee (Senate), 332
Egypt, 77, 288, 291, 308, 397, 567, 572
Ehrenburg, Ilya, 97
Eighth Air Force (U.S.), 446
Eighth Army (British), 329, 382, 393, 394, 438
Einstein, Albert, 249-250, 591
Eire, 12, 13
Eisenhower, Dwight D.: advocates cross-channel attack, 229, 318; advocates invasion of southern France, 440, 478; appointment of, reflects F.D.R.’s perspicacity, 350; asked to work out a plan of action for the Pacific, 204; and campaign in Italy, 385, 393, 394, 438, 440, 478-479; and command of operation OVERLORD, 415, 416, 494; congratulated by Churchill on gains in Italy, 394; consulted by F.D.R. on conduct of war, 443; and D day, 474, 475, 477; and the Darlan deal. 295, 296-297, 320; escorts F.D.R. from Oran to Tunis, 403; and French leaders in Africa, 291, 294, 295; headquarters of, in London, 286, 474; insists on preserving II Corps as a fighting unit, 329; meets with Churchill and Marshall in Algiers, 371, 389; military triumphs of, helpful to F.D.R.’s election campaign, 528; notes F.D.R.’s happy mood during Casablanca Conference, 321; opposes appointment of La Guardia to his staff, 491; on the Philippines, 207, 208; postpones invasion of Africa, 290; preparations of, for assault on Africa, 286, 288, 289, 290, 291, 294, 295, 297; promotion of, to rank of full general, 319; recognizes inseparability of political and military factors, 288, 290; sees necessity for dealing with de Gaulle, 481, 482; supported by F.D.R., 296-297, 318, 560; terms of, for Italian armistice, 385, 393; troop strength of, in the Mediterranean, 370
Eisenhower, Milton, 266, 267
El Alamein, 285 E.L.A.S., 538, 539
El Salvador, 185
Elbe River, 585
Elbrus, Mount, 308
Elburz Mountains, 406
Electric power, shortage of, 52
Electronic equipment, 346
Eliot, George Fielding, 300
Embargoes: aircraft, to Russia, 94; iron and steel scrap, to Japan, 20; oil, to Japan, 21, 107, 109, 110
Emerson, Faye. See Roosevelt, Mrs.
Elliott Emerson, William, 494
Emissaries, exchange of, by United States and Great Britain, 73-74
Empire State Building, 348, 603
Employment, rise in, in the U.S., 334, 355, 460. See also Labor; Manpower
Employment Service, 54, 265
Eniwetok atoll, 444, 485
Enterprise, U.S.S., 222, 224, 226, 284
Erikson, Joan, 8
Ernst, Morris, 212
Espionage, Russian, 459. See also Saboteurs; Subversive activities
Esquire: cartoon by Dorothy McKay, 59
Estonia, 15, 413
Ethiopia, 384
Ethridge, Mark, 264
Etna, Mount, 382
Euphrates River, 406
Europe First strategy, 376, 378, 415, 545, 560. See also Atlantic First strategy
Eve of St. Mark, The (Anderson), 271
Export-Import Bank, 342
Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), 124, 264, 265, 421, 462, 463, 466, 528
Fairbanks, Alaska, 371, 400
Fala (F.D.R.’s dog), 9, 22, 35, 56, 121, 177, 447, 476, 488, 490, 523, 601
Family stability, in the U.S., weakened, 461
Far East, 12, 13, 21-22, 51, 107, 138, 144, 188, 204, 366, 485, 535, 537, 552, 565, 574. See also Pacific theater
Farley, James A., 6, 40, 277. 506, 603
Farm Bureau Federation, 197
Farm Credit Administration, 460
Farm groups, 197
Farouk, King of Egypt, 578, 579
Federal Loan Agency, 39
Federal Reserve Board, 257
Federal Security Agency, 460
Fermi, Enrico, 249, 250, 251
Field, Marshall III, 431
Fifteenth Air Force (U.S.), 446
Fifth Army (U.S.), 321, 394, 438
Fight for Freedom Committee, 41
Fiji Islands, 182, 283
Films (documentary), 271-272, 471
Films, wartime, 271, 272
Finance Committee (Senate), 435
Finland, 17, 68, 94, 187, 308, 365, 372, 412, 554, 567
First Army (U.S.), 482
Fish, Hamilton, 37, 45, 120. 152, 164, 211, 275, 278-279, 280, 390, 471, 526, 528, 604
Fleming, D. F., 515
Florence, Italy, 15
Florida, 4, 224, 243, 364, 388
Flying bombs, 345, 558
Flying Tigers, 83, 242. See also Chennault, Claire L.
Flying Tigers (film), 271
Flynn, Edward J., 276, 331, 503, 504, 506, 565, 568
Flynn, John T., 111
Food prices, 259, 260, 424
Ford, Edsel, 268
Ford, Henry, 268
Foreign Affairs Committee (House), 40, 45, 278-279, 427
Foreign Funds Control, 441
Foreign Information Service, 384
Foreign Office, 537-538
Foreign policy, of the U.S.; diplomacies determining, 551; in the Far East, 21-22 Foreign Policy Association, 526 Foreign Relations Committee (Senate), 40, 44-45, 47, 49, 361, 428
Forest Service, 23, 62, 143
Formosa, 156, 201, 445, 485, 488, 518, 540, 546
Forrestal, James V., 39, 350, 444, 560
Forster, Rudolph, 390
Fort Benning, 601
Fort Jackson, 270
Fort Lewis, 269
Fort Sam Houston, 270
Fortas, Abe, 464
Fortune (magazine), 307
4-F’s, 560
Four Freedoms, viii, 33, 34-35, 239, 271, 306, 381, 467, 470, 547, 608
Fourteenth Air Force (U.S.), 445
Fox, William T. R., 516
France: Allied bombing of, planned, 305; Allied invasion of, 366, 374, 393, 405, 408, 411, 414, 464, 473-480, 481, 483, 489, 495, 545, 546; as an American command, 538; and colonialism, 285, 592; factionalism in, 319; fear of German strength in, 313; the Free French, 10, 184, 481, 591; the French fleet, 13, 65, 285, 294, 296-297, 298, 309, 481; Germans driven out of, 534; and Great Britain, 566; and Indochina, 20, 78, 106, 109, 379, 591, 592; Italian campaign vital to operations in, 393, 395, 438; Jewish refugees in, 441; and the League of Nations, 567; military weakness, 566; and the North African invasion, 180, 319-323; postwar government in, 408; respect for F.D.R., 290; resistance in, 480, 482; F.D.R. opposed to American occupation of, 519; Stalin on, 408; taken by Germany, 15, 19, 33, 79, 80, 84, 93, 308, 576; Vichy government, 10, 11, 12-13, 14, 20, 24, 64-65, 69, 77, 106, 109, 285, 286-287, 290, 293, 294, 296. See also Algiers; ANVIL; Committee of National Liberation; De Gaulle, Charles; Giraud, Henri; Morocco; Africa: North Africa; OVERLORD; Pétain, Henri; Tunisia
Franco, Francisco, 14, 15, 64, 65, 69-70, 73, 98, 288, 308, 311, 352, 548, 608
Frankfurter, Felix, 38, 39, 44, 65, 91, 114, 22, 131, 193, 194, 257, 262, 296, 417, 457, 458, 591
Free trade, 129
Freedman, Max, 457
Freedom, as a propaganda concept for both sides, 387-388
Freedom House, 275
Fulbright, J. William, 427, 533
Gainesville, 603
Gallipoli, 231, 287
Gambia River, 316, 324
Gandhi, Mohandas, 219, 239, 240, 242, 380, 381, 551
Gannett, Frank, 500
Garner, John N., 35, 270, 498
Gasoline rationing, 258, 259
Gauss, Clarence E., 541
G.B.S. (Pearson), 272
General Lee (tank), 268
General Maximum Price Regulation (OPA), 257
George, Walter, 40, 364, 427, 435, 437
George III, King of England, 220
George VI, King of England, 62, 282, 300, 410, 411, 593
Georgia, Russia, 92
German-Americans, 499; treatment of, in World War II,
268. See also Aliens
Germany: Allied troops in, 545, 595, 599; Allied victory in sight, 565; army officers’ rebellion, 496; army retires to the Rhine, 518; attack on Russia, 68-70, 80, 95-97, 101-103, 106, 113, 143, 153, 186, 231, 282-283, 300, 308, 408, 483, 566, 575, 576, 586, 587; attempts to induce Japan to take action in the Far East, 69; and the atomic bomb, 252, 459; and the Balkans, 14, 15, 64, 65, 71-72, 73, 74, 77, 94, 100, 308, 392, 518; “Blue Print for Extermination,” 395; bombing of, 17, 237, 244, 325, 345, 346, 370, 371, 445-446, 554, 557, 595-596, 601; and Bulgaria, 71, 73, 94; casualties, 546, 554; Congress declares war on, 175; counteroffensive, 553-554, 557, 558; and D day, 477; declares war on U.S., 173-175; defeat and surrender in Italy, 518, 519, 585-586; driven out of France, 534; encircles Rome, 394; and Finland, 308, 554; and Greece, 65, 71, 74, 76, 88, 94, 534; first American encounter with forces of, 91, 326-327; isolates Sweden, 308; and the Jews, 43, 70, 310, 386, 387, 395-397, 441; and Latin America, 100, 147; Thomas Mann on, 358; military resistance failing, 585; mobilizes for a vast offensive on the Eastern Front, 228; Nazi plan to abolish all existing religions, 147; Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939, 15, 19, 93, 97, 183, 373, 399, 575; the “New Order,” 16, 18; occupation zones, 519, 545, 582; occupies Channel Islands, 308; occupies Norway, 33, 41, 80, 308; and Poland, 15, 68, 80, 85, 93, 483, 534-535, 536, 569, 570, 571, 575-576; in the postwar world, 365-366, 409, 582; prewar relations with Russia, 93; projected defeat of, 179, 519, 545, 546; projected destruction of the Nazi party, 582; propagandists, 386-387; proposed deindustrialization of, 520; Prussia, 96, 365, 565, 570; reaction to Lend-Lease, 26-27; reinforcements sent to Russian front. 327, 586, 587; reversal of fortune, 308; F.D.R.’s harsh attitude to, 441, 520, 566; F.D.R.’s insistence on direct attack on, 548, 554; seen as main enemy by Americans, 179; as signatory of the Anti-Comintern Pact, 19; as signatory of the Tripartite Pact, 16, 20-21, 68, 69; and Spain, 10, 14, 64, 65, 179, 286, 291; Stalin demands total dismemberment and crushing of, 408-409, 410, 412; strategy set for capture of, 557-558; strikes in Ardennes, 553, 558; takes France, 15, 19, 33, 79, 80, 84, 93, 295, 308, 576; threatened invasion of Great Britain, 10, 14, 15, 19, 33, 45, 64, 73, 79; treatment of, after surrender, 519-520; tries to obtain supplies of heavy water, 252; and unconditional surrender, 323, 409, 440-441, 548, 582; war aims, 6, 147; war production, 14, 554; and Yugoslavia, 71-72, 74, 76, 80, 88, 94, 253. See also Atlantic theater; Bulge, Battle of the; Hitler, Adolf; Submarine warfare: U-boats
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