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INDEX
Note: Boldface page numbers indicate illustrations.
African Americans, 14
Anschluss
(“union”), 12, 31
anti-Semitism, defined, 30
Atlantic Charter (1941), 19
atomic bomb, 22
Attlee, Clement, 63
Austria, 12, 26, 31
Axelrod, Alan, 45
Axis powers, 12
Baruch, Bernard, 64
Berlin Wall, 68,
70
Big Three.
See
Churchill,Winston; Roosevelt,
Franklin D.; Stalin, Joseph
Bismarck, Otto von, 24
Black Shirts, 11
blitzkrieg (“lightning war”), 13
Britain
aerial battle for, 15, 49
empire of, 15, 19, 59
and evacuation at Dunkirk, 49
invasion of, planned by Hitler, 13–15
Munich Pact and, 9,
10
, 12
NATO and, 58
Treaty of Versailles and, 23, 25
US lend-lease aid to, 15
See also
Churchill,Winston
Britain, Battle of, 15, 49
Brown Shirts, 30, 33
Bulge, Battle of the, 21
bushido,
described, 36
causes.
See
Hitler, Adolf; Treaty of Versailles
(1918)
Chamberlain, Neville, 9,
10
, 12
China, 36
Churchill,Winston
British Empire and, 19
on defeat of Rommel in North Africa, 17
on Italy as first step in invasion, 18
on Munich Pact, 12
at Potsdam, 63
on predicting plans of Hitler, 31
on RAF, 49
secret agreement of, with Roosevelt, 44–45
Stalin and, 59
at Yalta, 59–61,
60
Clarke, Stephen, 25
Clemenceau, Georges, 25, 26
Cold War
Berlin Blockade and Airlift during, 65–67,
66
cultural Cold War, 69
Korean War during, 68
named, 64
NATO and, 67–68
policy of containment, 64
propaganda, 69
and Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, 10,
19, 58–59, 60–61, 62–63
and Soviet support of revolutionary
movements, 68
colonialism, 19, 25, 62
Commissar Order, 56
Communists and communism
American public opinion about, 63
Hitler and, 47
US policy of containment on, 64
in Weimar Republic, 30
Congress for Cultural Freedom, 69
containment, policy of, 64
Curtis, Glenn E., 58
Davis, Jackson B., 8
D-day ( June 6, 1944), 19–20,
20
“Desert Fox” (Rommel), 17
diktat,
defined, 30
Disarmament Conference (1934, Geneva,
Switzerland), 31
displaced persons (DPs), 62
Doolittle, Jimmy, 17, 38, 44
Eastern Europe
German invasion of, 16–17
Soviet domination of, 10, 19, 58–59, 60–61,
62–63
Economic Consequences of the Peace,The
(Keynes), 28
effects
Britain no longer dominant world power, 62
treaty negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, 9
United States as dominant world power, 62
See also
Cold War
Einsatzgruppen, 16–17
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 18, 62
Encounter
(magazine), 69
Ethiopia, 11–12
Fascism, 11–12
See also
National Socialist German Workers’
(Nazi) Party
Foreign Affairs
(magazine), 64
