Polish provisional government set up in liberated area, 449
settlements of Germans in, 77
Soviet Union postwar terror, 571–573
Polish Committee of National Liberation, (Lublin Committee), 449, 453, 469, 494–495, 512
coalition, 567
Polish Home Army, 453
Potsdam Conference, 539, 540–541, 542, 543, 544–545
Powell, Clifford R., 157
Pravda, 419–420
denounces Churchill Iron Curtain speech, 572
Princeton Public Opinion Research Project, 106–107
Prostitution, 316
Pullford, Conway, 204
Pyle, Ernie 335, 383, 521
death, 511, 521–523
Q
Quebec Conference (Quadrant) 1943, 365
Quezon, Manuel, 188, 189
Quisling, Vidkun, 572
made Premier of Norway by Germans, 243, 244
death by firing squad, 572, 573
Quo, Tai-Chi, 134
R
Racial discrimination, 315, 329, 363–364
Radio and phonograph production ends, 250
Rangoon, Burma, recaptured, 532
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 118
Redeployment from Atlantic front to Pacific front, 537, 539
Regent Street, London, 48
Reich Civilian Air-Raid Defense Corps, 38
Reich Security Office, 249
Reich. See Germany.
Reichstag Building, fire, 11
Reichsweher, 7–9
Remagen Bridge, 493, 507, 508
Reporters. See Foreign correspondents.
Repulse (ship), 227
Reston, James “Scotty”, 453
Reuben James (ship), sunk, 210
Reynaud, Paul, 81–82
Rhine, battles for, 493, 498, 507, 508
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 18, 23, 27, 33, 37, 131
trial, 569
death, 575
Rolland, Romain, 49
Rome, bombing by Allies, 335, 346, 351–354
Fascist march, 5–7
march by Allies to, 411, 417–419, 431, 432, 433
seeks Open City status, 363
Rommel, Erwin, 151, 235, 249, 263, 268, 285, 287, 290, 315, 317, 323–324
in France, 383, 404, 463
Rooks, Lowell, 371
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 14, 15, 71, 80, 105, 108, 115, 118–119, 126, 151, 197, 198, 200, 231, 236, 267, 279–280, 291, 303–304, 331, 335, 342–344, 346–347, 349, 356–357, 367, 383, 415, 470, 471
at Yalta conference, 493
Atlantic Charter, 193, 196–198
calls for Czech negotiations, 19–20
declares war “a date that will live in infamy”, 209, 223, 224
death, 511, 515–521
declares an “unlimited” state of emergency, 169, 170, 171
denouncement of Soviet union invasion of Finland, 71
fireside chats, 133
“Four freedoms”, 151
freezes Japanese assets, 187
meetings with Churchill, 263, 308, 309, 310–313, 365, 391–393, 394, 395, 400, 401, 402, 493
mourned worldwide, 517–520
neutrality and, 26–27, 31, 35–36, 39–40, 56, 57
on D-Day, 436
powers enlarged, 224
protection of, 56–57
reelection, 133, 141, 447, 480
signs declarations of war, 228
warns of war, 215
Rostov, Germans advancing on, 214, 269
Rouen, France 267
Royal Air Force, Great Britain, 115, 121–122, 124, 127, 130, 260
bombings in Germany, 267, 283, 355–356, 420–421, 503
Royal Navy, Great Britain, American destroyers, sent to, 126
Fleet Air Arm, 142
Ruhr, battles, 511
Rumania, 56, 177, 178
Polish refugees in, 52
surrender to Soviet Union, 453
Rundstedt, Karl von, 491
captured, 531
S
Saar basin, battle for, 509
Saigon, occupied by Japanese, 189
Saipan, battle of, 431, 439, 440, 443–444, 504–505
Saito, Ma-koto, 12
Salerno, Italy, fight for, 359, 373
Salvage, 289, 295
San Francisco, 219, 220
Schleicher, Kurt von, 8–9, 11
Scotch whisky shortage feared, 65
Scrap metal collection, 289
Second front, 279–280, 286–287, 329, 359, 364, 383
Sedan, France, 99
Sellassie, Haile, 155
Sevastopol, siege, 213, 249
fall of, 269
liberation of, 426, 427
Seville Revolt, 16–17
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 18
SHAEF headquarters move to Paris, 473, 474
Shallett, Sidney, 539
Sheldon, James H., 198
Shigemitsu, Mamoru, 551
Shipping convoys, 315, 321, 327
Great Britain, 53, 341–342
Shipping lanes to Europe, 478–479
Shirer, William L., 153, 154
Shoah. See Holocaust.
Shoes, straw, in Germany, 199
Sicily, Italy, invasion of, 335, 338, 339, 340, 346, 347, 350–354, 359, 361, 362, 371, 372
map, 361
Sidi Barrani, Libya, 147
Siegried Line, 465, 485, 498, 500
Signal Corps (U.S.), 148
Singapore, 204, 209
attacked, 220
captured, 235, 244–246
soldiers captured, 245
Singh, Sardar Baldev, 576
Smith, Walter Bedell, 371, 372
Smith-Connally anti-strike bill, 335, 342–344
Smolensk, battle of, 190
Sobibor camp, 285, 298
Solomon Islands, battles, 249, 276–277, 293–294, 320, 344–345
map, 344
Somme, Battle of the, 103
South Africa, at war, 43
sending supplies, 136
South America, hope for financial gains, 40–41
fears of war in, 105, 117
support for war, 229
Soviet Union, 2–3
assails Truman, 583–584
atomic program, 539, 553–554
atomic bomb tested, 563, 595
Berlin-Moscow Treaty, 26–27
bombers, 181
cheers African campaign, 293
Communist bloc, 563
expulsion from League of Nations, 74
European zone of influence, 567–568
guerrilla warfare by, 189, 190
hard line by U.S. postwar, 566–567
in Iran, 199
invasion by Germany, 170, 175–191, 193, 198, 201–207, 209, 211, 258–259, 264, 274, 278–280, 295–296, 305–306, 311, 335, 379–381, 383
invasion of Finland, 68, 70, 71, 73, 76–77, 81
invasion of Poland, 31, 55–56, 494
losses, 195
mourns Roosevelt, 520
neutrality of, 54–55
oil refineries, 269–270
partners with Germany, 59–61, 179
postwar European domination, 563
pushing Germans back, 414–415, 448–449, 499
supplies, 205
Polish postwar terror, 571–573
postwar borders, 408–409
prisoners of war, 194
shoots down U.S. B-29, 557
uniforms, 241
war preparations, 162–163
winter, 209, 213, 214, 235, 495–496. See also Eastern front.
Spaatz, Carl A., 270–271, 407, 409, 536, 546
Spain, 3, 16–17, 24–25, 31
neutrality of, 60
union with Axis, 130–131
Spanish Civil War, 3, 16–17, 24–25, 31
Spitfires, 121
St. Malo recaptured, 459
Stalin Line, 186
&n
bsp; Stalin, Joseph, 31, 55, 60–61, 67, 68, 163, 175, 193, 205, 206, 286, 309, 359, 383, 390, 409, 415, 449, 471, 497, 520, 539, 540, 542, 570
at Cairo Conference, 391–395
at Potsdam Conference, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543
at Teheran Conference, 400, 401, 402
at Yalta conference, 493
speeches, 183–184
Stalingrad Line, map, 274
Stalingrad, battle of, 267, 278–279, 281–282, 285, 295
map, 278, 296
Statue of Liberty in dimout, 390
Statute of the Council of Europe, 594
Stauffenberg, Claus von, 445, 455
Stauning, Theodor, 79, 88
Steinmetz, H.C., 44–45
Stettinius, Edward R., 157, 462, 519
Steuben Society, 193, 200
Stimson, Henry L., 118, 240, 483, 533, 545, 560
resignation, 559, 560
Stone, Harlan F., 516
Stratton, Lloyd, 402
Strikes, 315, 328–329, 330, 342–344
Strong, Keith, 371
Student, Kurt, 151
Suez Canal, 133, 268
Sugamo Prison, Japan, 590–591
Sulzberger, Arthur, 151, 345, 411, 431, 453, 473
Sulzberger, Cyrus L., 178, 383, 411, 417
Sumita, Raishiro, 189
Sun, Yat-sen, 389
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. See SHAEF.
Surplus War Property Administration, 484–485
Suzuki, Kantaro, 513, 537
Swastika, flag, 13
Sweden, mobilization in, 87–88
Syria, Allies occupation, 186–187
British raids on, 167
T
Tabor, Annie, 242
Tacoma (ship), 74–75
Tanks, British, 64
German, 97, 162–163
Taranto, bombing of, 133, 142
Tarawa, battle of, 396, 397–398
Tebourba, Tunisia, 298–299
Teheran Conference, 383, 400–402
Declaration, 402
reporters at, 402
Tel Aviv, 585
Texas coast blackout, 242–243
Thao, Tran Due, 560
Time magazine, “Man of the Year”, 151
Times Square, New York, 288–290
blackouts, 235
war bulletin boards, 95
V-E Day, 511, 533, 534
V-J Day, 539
Timor, captured, 246
Timoshenko, Semyon, 269–270
Tito, Josip Broz, 403, 427–428, 453, 493, 520
Premier, 507, 567, 587, 590–591
Tobruk, Libya, 249, 263
Togo, Shigenori, 216, 218, 533
Tojo, Hideki, 209, 212, 216, 218
resigns, 431, 445
hanging, 590–591
Tokyo, bombings by Allies, 493, 508–509, 549, 550
Tomatoes from gardens, 378
Toulon, liberation of, 453
Tours, bombing of, 101
Treaty of Versailles, 2–5, 9–10
Treblinka camp, 285, 298
Trieste proposal, 582
Tri-Partite Pact, 115
Trondheim, Norway, 91
Trotsky, Leon, 31, 60, 123
assassinated, 115, 123
Truman, Harry S., 446, 530, 545, 546, 551, 560, 578, 595
announces victory in Europe, 533
announces victory in Japan, 547, 548, 552
assailed by Soviet Union, 583–584
at Potsdam conference, 542
elected, 480
hard approach to Soviet Union, 566
intervention in Greece, 563
on aid to Europe, 558, 559
on world situation, 573–574
order “no change” in foreign policy, 519
sworn-in as President, 511, 516, 517
Truman Doctrine, 563, 578
Truman, Martha E., 446
Truscott, Lucian, 453
Tuberculosis, 514
Tula, captured, 213
Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 276–277
Tunisia, 285, 298, 299, 317, 323–324, 325, 332
map, 299, 323
Turkey, 108, 162, 163, 177–178
aid for, 578
postwar status, 402
Tuskeegee Airmen, 240
Two Ocean Navy Bill (U.S.), 115, 118–119
U
U-boats, 53, 62–63, 193, 210, 321
in Atlantic, 206–207, 315, 316, 327, 328–329, 341–342
in Gulf of Texas, 242–243
wolf-packs, 315, 321
Uchida, Ya-suya, 12
Umezu, Yoshijiro, 551
United Mine Workers, 340
United Nations Organization, 453, 475, 493, 502, 582, 587
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 513–514, 558
United Nations Security Conference, San Francisco, 1945, 506–507, 512, 539, 540
United States Army, expansion, 63, 118
doctors, 482–483
Fourth Corps, 96
jungle training in Hawaii, 412
manoeuvres in U.S. South, 96, 203–204
redeployement to Pacific front, 537
discharging 1,000,000 per month, 565
United States National Guard, 105
United States Air Force Band, 489
United States Air Force in Europe, 270–271, 420–421
United States Armed Forces across the world, 264
United States Army Air Corps, 240, 244
United States Atlantic Fleet, 133
United States Congress, declaration of war against Japan, 222–223
postwar planning, 373
war vote, 228
United States First Army, 463, 478, 494, 498, 526, 527, 528
United States Marines, 230–231, 267, 306
dog platoon, 391
Navajos in, 269
United States Navy, 32
aircraft carrier launched, 273
Atlantic Patrol Force, 145
convoying cargo ships, 206
expansion, 63
two-ocean program, 63, 118–119, 238–239
discharging 208,000 per month, 565
United States Ninth Air Force, 485, 486
United States Seventh Army, 498
United States Sixth Army Group, 493
United States soldiers, attitudes, 326–327
Dear John clubs, 385–386
what to write to, 385–386
waiting for London theater, 466
mourn Roosevelt death, 518
United States, 2, 32
arms embargo, 57–58
Armistice with Italy, 371, 372
blackout rules, 226–227
censorship, 226, 414–415
declaration of war against Japan, 209, 219, 222, 223
declaration of war against Germany and Italy, 228
Defense Information, 185
Destroyers-for-Bases deal, 115
destroyers sent to Britain, 126
inflation, 340
Japanese internment camps, 261–262
National Defense Program, 85, 100
Nazi invasion fears, 129
negotiations with Japan, 199–200, 209, 212, 216–218
neutrality of, 17–18, 26–27, 31, 35–36, 39–40, 44–45, 51, 65, 67, 73, 90, 98–99, 146, 194, 200
offensive strategy, 312–313
postwar policy towards Germany, 470
postwar production, 553, 563
preparations for war, 125, 133, 137, 151, 210–211
public opinion changing, 106–107, 193
rationing, 322–323, 340, 341
post-war planning, 373
Selective Service draft, 133, 144
Second Front, 279
“unlimited” state of emergency, 169–171
war against Japan, 218–226, 228–233, 244–247, 250–252, 254, 256, 267, 276, 293, 299, 301, 320, 331
volunteers for Service, 144
&
nbsp; wartime civilian life, 260–261. See also Atlantic theater of war; Pacific theater of war; individual battles.
UNRRA. See United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
USO Camp shows, 302–303
USS California, Pearl Harbor, 218
USS Oklahoma (ship), 220
USS Solace, wounded soldiers on, 294
USS West Virginia (ship), 220
V
V- symbol origin, 187
V-1 missiles, 431, 441, 466–467
V-2 missiles, 473, 480, 481, 482, 487
Valencia, Spain, 24–25
Valera, Eamon de, 38, 39
van den Dreschd, Jacques Mornaard, 123
Vandegrift, Alexander A., 301–302, 457
V-E Day, 511, 533, 534
Venereal diseases, 316, 483
Verdillac, Joseph de, 186
Verdun, 485
Versailles, Palace of Mirrors, 2, 4
Vichy France, 126, 186–187, 188, 285, 291, 568
Jewish prosecution by, 166
Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, 354–355, 359
Victory in Europe. See V-E Day.
Vienna, 18, 26
Viet Nam established, 592
Vistula-Oder operation, 493
V-J Day, 539
announcement of, 552
Vyazma, Soviet Union, fighting near, 206–207
W
Wahoo (US submarine), 319
Wainwright, Jonathan, 249, 256, 257
Wake Island, attacked, 230–231
Wallace, John, 402
Wang, Ching-wei, 78, 83
War crimes, trial principles established, 390, 512
trials, 531, 568, 569, 570
War materials production, 211, 277
War on all fronts, 318
War Production Board, 235, 250, 295
War Resources Board, 100
War surplus goods, sale of, 484–485
Warm Springs, Georgia, 511, 515, 516
War-mongering, 24
Warsaw, Ghetto, 133, 148, 149
uprising against Germany, 453, 456–457, 474
map, 456
destruction by Germans, 453, 474
Washington and Jefferson College, courses on WWII, 51
Wasp (ship) sunk, 288–289
Weizmann, Chaim, 11–12, 324
West Germany, 563
Western European Union, 587
Western Front, 71, 485–491, 493
joins with Eastern Front, 526, 527, 528
Weygand, Maxime, 102
Wilhelm Gustloff (ship) sunk, 505
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, 31
Wilkie, Wendell, 141
Wilson, Henry Maitland, 186
Wilson, Woodrow, 2, 4–5, 17, 39
Women bicycling, 238
Women, fatigue and strain, 336
role after war, 369–370
working in war, 80, 235, 242, 306, 307, 308–309, 336
Woodbridge, Frederick J.E., 10
World War I, 2, 4–5, 17–18, 116, 215
World’s Fair, New York, 137
Wu, Pei-fu, General, 8
Y
Yalta Conference, 493, 501–504
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