Taylor, George W., 264
Taylor, Maxwell, 393
Taylor, Myron, 152, 211
Taylor, Wayne, 455
Teamsters Union, 521
Tedder, Arthur W., 319
Teheran Conference, 389, 400, 401, 405, 406-414, 415, 427, 429, 439, 458, 478, 479, 569, 574, 608, 611
Teller, Edward, 250
Tennessee, U.S.S., 162
Tennessee Valley Authority, 119, 301, 431-432, 510, 528
Thailand, 20, 135, 158, 160, 175, 201, 218
Third Army (U.S.), 482
Third Fleet (U.S.), 540
36th Division, U.S. Army, 438
This Is Your War (Childs), 273
Thomas, Elbert, 532
Thomas, Norman, 46, 62, 66, 358, 604
Thompson, Dorothy, 275, 295
Thompson, Malvina, 59
Three-Power Pact. See Tripartite Pact
Thurber, James, 272
Tientsin, 203
Tigris River, 406
Tilsit, 314
Time, 211, 307, 381, 435
Time for Decision, The (Wells), 515
Time for Greatness, A (Agar), 272
Timor, 202, 209, 444, 486
Tinian, 486, 487
Tirpitz (German warship), 327
Tito, Marshal, 484
“T.N.T.” See Dilling, Elizabeth
Tobin, Daniel J., 521
Tobruk, 76, 235, 236, 369
Togo, Heihachiro, 225
Togo, Shigenori, 147, 154, 158
Tojo, Hideki, 18-19, 135, 146, 154, 158, 217, 379, 496
Tokyo: bombing of, 224, 445, 486, 558, 588, 599; celebration of the founding of the Japanese Empire, 18-19
Tolan Committee (House), 332
TORCH, 285-292, 300, 308, 310-312, 315, 382
Torpedo Boat (film), 271
Toulon, 65, 294, 297, 298, 309
Toyoda, Teijiro, 109, 110, 135, 144, 486
Trade Agreements Act, 594
Trade liberalization, 129
Trade unions. See Labor; Unions Treasury, Department of the, 352, 363, 364, 396, 433, 434
Trier, 582
Trieste, 586
Trinidad, 266, 316
Tripartite Pact, 16, 20-21, 68, 69, 71, 78, 79, 81, 144, 156
Tripoli, 285, 326
Trotsky, Leon, 92
True, James. 453
Truk, 444, 485
Truman, Harry S, 111, 118-119, 427, 504, 505, 506, 509, 525, 532, 562, 581, 595, 602, 605, 612
Truman Committee, investigates defense production, 118-119, 193, 339
Tsukada, Japanese Army Vice Chief of Staff, 154
Tsushima, Battle of, 225
“Tube Alloys” (English code name for atomic project), 251
Tula, 187, 188
Tule Lake concentration camp, 267, 421, 464, 466
Tully, Grace, 8, 60, 122, 125, 163, 164, 199, 200, 201, 253, 254, 255, 292, 299, 432, 447, 448, 450, 456, 475, 530, 594, 600
Tunis, 297, 298, 326, 329, 330, 403, 416
Tunisia, 179, 180, 285, 289, 294, 295, 298, 309, 311, 313, 314, 319, 325, 326, 328, 329, 330, 337, 382, 403
Turkey, 16, 17, 71, 73, 74, 77, 309, 311, 315, 365, 369, 395, 407, 408, 412, 414
Turkish straits, 68
Tuscaloosa, U.S.S., 24, 25
Tuskegee Institute, 463
Twentieth Air Force (U.S.), 558
Twentieth Century-Fox, 272
U-boats. See Submarine warfare
Ukraine, 69, 143, 151, 233, 308, 413, 567, 571
Unconditional surrender, 323, 384, 385, 393, 397, 409, 422, 440-441, 478, 495, 546, 548-549, 559, 582
Unified command problem, 181-183
Unions, 54, 55, 454-455, 465. See also AFL-CIO; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Auto Workers; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Labor; Strikes; United Mine Workers
United Kingdom. See Great Britain
United Mine Workers, 52, 196, 341
United Nations: American public opinion infavor of, 559; beginnings of, 515; charter, 583; Executive Council, 526, 608; peacekeeping issue, 513, 526; planning for, 429; F.D.R. announces formation of, 582; F.D.R. attempts to promote the establishment of, 427-429, 547-548, 560, 565, 566, 604, 611; F.D.R.’s 1944 election victory as referendum for support of, 533; and Russia, 572; Russia requests sixteen votes in Assembly, 517, 567; Russia wins two extra votes in Assembly, 567-568, 584; stabilization fund, 514; trusteeships, 592; unanimity problem discussed at Yalta, 567; U.S. requests and receives two extra Assembly votes, 568, 584; the veto, 517, 537, 587
“United Nations” chosen as term to replace
“Associated Powers,” 184
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration (UNRRA), 429, 513
United States. For relations with othernations see names of specific countries
United States Employment Service, 264-265
United States Medical Hospital, Bethesda, Md., 448
U.S. War Aims (Lippmann), 516
University of Chicago, 251
University of Virginia, 251
Urban League, 123
Urban riots, 466
Urey, Harold C, 251
Utah Beach, 474, 475, 477
Uvalde, Tex., 270
V-l rocket bombs, 345, 558
V-12 program, 464
Vagts, Alfred, 548
Vallandigham, Clement L., 216
Valley Forge, 212
Vance, Ethel, 272
Vandenberg, Arthur H., 37, 47, 332, 361, 426, 429, 500, 583
Vanderbilt Mansion, 199-200
Van Loon, Henrik, 9
Vargas, Getulió, President of Brazil, 57, 324
Vatican, 152, 391
Vera Cruz expedition, 205
Veterans, postwar education and training of. See GI Bill of Rights
Vichy France: appeasement of, 296; break with London, 11; breaks diplomatic relations with U.S., 293; British policy to, 65; and cease-fire in Algiers, 294; defeated by British in Syria, 77; defection to Hitler, 12-13; and Indochina, 20, 106, 109; Navy of, 13, 65, 285, 294, 296-297, 298, 309, 481; occupied by Germany, 295; power in North Africa, 285; relations with Germany, 10, 14, 64-65, 69; F.D.R. searches for an American ambassador to, 24; F.D.R.’s policy toward, 286-287; suspicious of British imperialistic aims, 290. See also Algiers; Darlan, Jean-François; Laval, Pierre; Morocco; North Africa; Pétain, Henri; TORCH
Vickery, Howard L., 191, 245
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, 383, 384
Victor Hugo (Josephson), 272
Victory ships. See Shipping
Vienna, 479, 480, 519, 585, 586
Vincent, Stenio, President of Haiti, 57
Vinnitsa, 282
Vinson, Fred M„ 340, 354, 363, 364, 434
Virginia Capes, 86
Vishinsky, Andrei, 565
Vladivostok, 103, 135, 149, 153, 224, 574
Vogelkop, 486
Volga River, 282, 283, 308, 310
Voroshilov, Kliment Y., 407
WAAF’s, 460
WAC’s, 460
Wage and Hour and Public Contracts
Division, 460
Wage control, 259-260, 307, 335, 362, 363. See also Taxation
Wagner, Robert F., 40, 525, 532
Waikiki, 488
Wainwright, Jonathan M., 226
Wake, U.S.S., 203
Wake Island, 164, 165, 172, 175, 201, 202 222 223
Wake island (film), 271 Wales, 358
Walker, Frank, 40, 65, 503, 504, 505, 506
Wallace, Henry A., 22, 40, 91, 251, 256, 258, 301, 341, 342, 357, 359, 433, 434, 436, 503, 504, 505, 506, 532, 542, 561, 593
Wallace committee on tax policy, 256, 257
Wallonia, proposed new state, 365
Walsh, David I., 40
Wang Ching-wei, 82
War, Department of, 25, 180, 207, 216, 246, 247, 265, 266, 344, 346, 397, 454, 455, 456, 462, 491, 551
War aims, 128, 129; statement of, 132
War Cabinet. See Cabinet War crimes, commission to investigate, 395
War effort, in the U.S. See Production War Industries Board (World War I), 339
War Labor Board (WLB), 197, 259, 263, 274, 336, 337, 350, 454, 465
War Manpower Commission, 263, 265, 334, 344, 432, 461
War Mobilization Committee, 451-452 War Plans Division (U.S. Army), 229
War Production Board (WPB), 191, 246, 258, 259, 264, 339, 432; Labor
Production Division, 263
War Refugee Board, 441, 442
War Relocation Authority (WRA), 266, 267, 464
Warm Springs, G., 5, 463, 552, 594, 595, 596, 599, 602, 603, 606
Warm Springs Foundation, 601
Warren, Earl, 215, 281, 400
Warsaw, 536, 565; uprising in, 534-535
Warsaw Poles. See Polish Committee of National Liberation
Washington D.C., at war, 459-460, 469-470
“Washington Merry-Go-Round” (Drew
Pearson’s column), 398
Washington Times Herald, 212
Wasp, U.S.S., 284
Watson, Edwin (“Pa”), 9, 22, 56, 58, 61, 63, 98, 121, 163, 250, 341, 402, 405, 406, 451, 475, 503, 530, 579-580
Watson, Mrs. Edwin, 62, 530
Watts, Los Angeles, 388
Wave of the Future, The (Lindbergh), 66
Wavell, Archibald, 74, 75, 76, 78, 182, 186, 203, 205, 221
WAVES, 460, 469
Ways and Means Committee (House), 121, 257, 433
Weapons, invention of new, 345-347
Webster, Milton, 264
Wedemeyer, Albert C, 588, 589, 591
Welfare services, expansion of, 355
Welles, Sumner, 80, 94, 102, 109, 129, 136, 158, 179, 221, 222, 241, 265, 307, 350, 359, 364, 366, 400, 515
Werth, Alexander, 283, 399
West Indies, 451
West Virginia, U.S.S., 162
Wheeler, Burton K., 44, 47, 114, 120, 426, 583
White, Harry Dexter, 514
White, Theodore, 381
White, Walter, 123, 124
White, William Allen, 41, 331, 332
White, William S., 605
White House, the: as home and office of F.D.R., 61; as a military command post, 198; as a mirror of F.D.R’.s personality, 58-59; seclusion of, 468; security precautions, 173; simplicity and grace of, 58; in wartime, 173
White House Correspondents’ Association dinners, 50-51, 437, 594-595
White Russia, 567
“Why We Fight” (film series), 471
Wickard, Claude, 39
Wilhelina, Queen of the Netherlands, 253, 300, 592, 593
Williams, Aubrey, 124, 594
Willkie, Wendell L.: address of, at New York Herald Tribune Forum, 296; advocates offensive tactics by the Navy, 222; attacked by Barkley, 435; attacks conservative Republicans, 499; and attempt to unseat Fish, 275, 279; author of One World, 358, 512; champion of civil rights, 275, 499, 512; Madame Chiang’s opinion of, 377; and Churchill, 43, 274, 573; and congressional Republicans, 275, 499, 510, 512, 513; considered for committee to study defense organization, 194; considered for post of director of manpower, 274; critic of the administration, 51, 222, 274-275, 358, 434, 437, 499, 512-513; death of, 513, 573; demands that MacArthur be brought back to unify defense effort, 274; effigy of, hanged, 48; endorses Lend-Lease, 48-49; foe of imperialism, 275, 358, 379; former supporters of, back liberal Democrats, 280; founder of Freedom House, 275; leader of the Republican party, 38, 274, 276, 279, 358; loses election, 38; loses party support, 499, 510, 511; meetings with F.D.R., 43, 275, 280, 512; member of Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission, 356; in Moscow, 283; not informed of plans for North Africa, 283; not offered job as production chief, 274; offered job as arbitrator under the War Labor Board, 274; and party realignment plan, 275-276, 280, 511-512, 513; persuades Republican National Committee to take an international position, 275; relations with F.D.R., 43, 48-49, 60-61, 274-276, 279-280, 500, 511-513, 604; Republican nominee for governor of New York, 275; Republican presidential candidate in 1940, 5, 33, 499, 502, 528; as F.D.R.’s personal representative, 276; strong advocate of postwar international organization, 275, 358, 361, 427, 428, 499, 510, 512; supported by John L. Lewis, 52; trip around the world, 275-276, 279, 358, 499; unsuccessfully seeks 1944 Republican presidential nomination, 499-500; urges F.D.R. to send wheat to Turkey, 279; urges a second front, 275, 279, 283; visit to England after election campaign, 43, 48; warns that F.D.R.’s third term will bring war, 6, 49 Willow Run bomber plant, 268 Wilson, Charles. See Moran, Lord Wilson, Henry Maitland, 479, 519
Wilson, Woodrow, viii, 4, 50, 130, 174, 197, 274, 281, 343, 357, 359, 361, 386, 426, 427, 428, 435, 534, 550, 604, 605, 607, 608
Wilson, Mrs. Woodrow, 356
Wilson (film), 515
Winant, John G., 73, 163, 234, 238, 504, 537, 561, 579
Winchell, Walter, 201, 212, 431
Windsor, Duke and Duchess of, 24 Wisconsin primary, 1944, 499, 510
Wise, Stephen S., 395, 441
Wolff, Karl, 585, 587, 596
Wolfsschanze headquarters, 496
Women: draft of, into Army, suggested, 461; education of, 464; employment of, 262-263, 334, 355, 460, 461, 462; health aid to, 355; Eleanor Roosevelt as spokesman for, 59; in the services, 262, 460, 469; tendency to vote Democratic, 524
Women’s Neutrality League, 48
Wood, Kingsley, 11
Wood, Robert E., 500
“Work or fight” bill. See National-service law
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 301, 430
World Court, 359
World-security organization. See United Nations
World War I, 11, 14, 24, 26, 42, 51, 76, 88, 131, 143, 174, 176, 181, 187, 205, 214, 231, 244, 306, 312, 365, 459, 491
Yale University, 189
Yalta Conference, 373, 558, 559, 564-580, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 588, 590, 591, 592, 608
Yamamoto, Isoroku, 159, 225, 226
Yamato (Japanese dreadnought), 225
Yangtze River, 81
Yank, 470 Yenan, 542, 576
“Ying Wo” (Eagle’s Nest) (home of
Chiang Kai-shek), 82
Yorktown, U.S.S., 225, 226
Yoshida, Zengo, 19
Youth cult, 461
Yugoslavia, 57, 71-72, 74, 76, 80, 88, 94, 185, 253, 272, 395, 408, 484, 537
Yunnan, 544
Yusupov Palace, 568
Zaharoff, Basil, 200
Zeman, Z. A. B., 386
Zhukov, Georgi, 496
Zion, 397, 578
Zuikaki (Japanese carrier), 225
Zurich, 585
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