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  Index

  aerial bombardment 1, 71, 92, 147, 163, 174, 283, 404, 457–8, 468

  in Britain 91, 103, 104, 106, 142

  in China 248, 250

  in Germany 159, 349, 380–82, 387

  in Japan 252, 256, 308–9, 314

  in New Guinea 296, 297

  in Soviet Union 195, 197, 198, 318, 322, 326, 346

  Africa 3, 72, 103, 106, 120, 121, 123, 124, 126, 132, 141, 154, 476, 488, 489, 500

  rationing in 136

  agribusiness 80, 82, 84, 162, 445, 480

  agricultural revolution 9, 11, 75, 78, 85, 91, 92, 138, 265–6, 245, 491–2, 494

  agricultural mechanization 9, 81, 84, 91, 92, 444–5, 482, 491

  agricultural productivity 27, 45, 51, 71, 78, 82, 85, 89, 93, 94, 98, 138, 155, 164, 169, 172, 221, 229, 232, 251, 258, 266, 491, 492, 501

  agricultural withdrawal into subsistence 162–3, 233, 262

  agricultural workers 9

  braceros 80

  schoolchildren as 79, 95, 231

  shortages 24, 9, 11, 24, 44, 61, 75, 78–9, 81, 84, 95, 125, 134, 135, 158–60, 170, 217, 229, 244, 251, 258, 278, 456

  women as 79, 84, 86, 94, 159, 160, 170, 186, 222, 230
, 231, 456, 470

  Algeria, 113, 126

  Allied liberation of Europe 7, 176, 177, 474

  anti-Semitism see Holocaust, Jews

  arable farming 4, 89, 93, 95, 98, 175, 229, 262, 389, 491

  Argentina 19, 68, 101, 109, 114, 125, 262, 472

  restructures food industry 8, 99

  armaments industry/ production 29, 110, 159, 191, 223, 232, 242, 269, 326, 332, 333, 335, 429

  Atlantic, battle of

  during First World War 23

  during Second World War 68, 101, 102–3, 107, 115, 116–17, 271, 381

  Atlantic Charter 481

  atomic bomb 275, 309, 311, 312, 314, 316, 464, 468, 483

  Australia 19, 21, 67, 68, 84, 118, 120, 125, 128, 129, 152, 232, 247, 283

  and United States 121, 444, 446–50, 488–9, 492–3, 496

  contribution to war 443–4

  pre-war diet 351, 401

  rationing in 394, 447

  restructures agriculture 8, 97–8, 445–6

  wartime improvement in diet 394

  Australian army 294, 296, 297, 298, 298, 384, 403

  and food/rations 14, 385, 401–2, 406–11, 414, 437, 441, 446–7

  autarky 2, 31, 64, 229, 237, 472

  Germany and 28, 33, 64, 156, 347, 354, 355, 357–8

  Backe, Herbert 5, 32–8, 47, 155, 156, 164, 165, 178, 180, 182, 183, 187, 189, 190, 191, 194, 203, 204, 209, 210, 214, 216, 217, 269, 347, 368, 370

  bacon 18, 67, 94, 98, 102, 115, 133, 149, 158, 162, 175, 334, 351, 356, 361, 375, 388, 392, 400, 405, 415, 436, 437, 441, 447, 493, 506

  Barbarossa decree 185

  barley 19, 25, 53, 68, 70, 92, 93, 130, 157, 197, 213, 234, 246, 277, 278, 280, 282, 287, 290, 291, 377, 379, 382, 471, 498, 540n, 543n

  Bataan peninsula 245, 462

  Bechuanaland 120, 121, 123, 124, 404, 411

  beef 3, 19, 51, 67, 83, 99, 109, 112, 170, 175, 222, 276, 279, 356, 365, 412, 413, 421, 431, 440 447, 449, 450, 451, 472, 541n

  bully/corned 14, 85, 99, 111, 115, 145, 283, 284, 301, 377, 385, 403, 404, 405, 432, 450, 451, 455, 457, 461

  Belgium 7, 34, 46, 164, 168–9, 171, 174, 178, 208, 477, 479, 480

 

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