79
Long Telegram, 64
Luftwaffe, 13–15
Luther, Craig, 54
Manchuria, 36
Marshall, George C., 18, 37, 65
Marshall Plan, 65
Mein Kampf
(Hitler), 31–32, 47, 50
Midler, Herman, 27–28
Midway, Battle of, 18–19, 38
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 47
Mommsen,Wolfgang, 33
Montgomery, Bernard, 17
Munich Pact, 9,
10
, 12
Mussolini, Benito
Allied invasion of Italy and, 18
conquests of, 11–12
death of, 21
on League of Nations, 28
Tripartite Pact and, 12, 34,
35
Mutual Defense Assistance Program and, 68
Nagasaki, bombing of, 22, 61
Nagumo, Chuichi, 38–39, 41
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP), 14
National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party
election of, 32
Hitler’s rise to leadership in, 30
paramilitary force, 30, 33
Treaty of Versailles and, 10
World War I and, 11
See also
Nazi
under
Germany
Nomura, Kichisaburo, 39
North Africa, 17–18
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),
67–68
November Criminals, 27
Okita, Saburo, 70
Operation Barbarossa,
16
,
51
battle for Moscow during, 54–56,
55
Battle of Stalingrad during, 18, 56–57
beginning of, 50–53
Commissar Order and, 56
German retreat during, 57
goal of, 56
Hitler on, 50, 56–57
invasion of Britain and, 49
results of, 10, 15–16, 55, 57
Soviet response to, 15, 51–53
as strategy error by Hitler, 53–54
Operation Sea Lion, 49
Operation Typhoon, 54
Operation Unthinkable, 63
Overy, Richard, 15, 42–43
Patton, George S., Jr., 17
Paulus, Friedrich, 57
Pearl Harbor, attack on (December 7, 1941)
described, 38–39,
40
effect(s) of
casualties and damage as, 39
Doolittle raid as, 17, 38
mobilization of United States as, 10, 42–43,
43
US declaration of war on Japan as, 10, 17,
39–41
failure of, to sink US aircraft carriers, 41, 44
film about, 42
purpose of, 17, 18
reunion, 8
and US view on likelihood as target, 37
Philippines, 37
Plokhy, S.M., 61
Poland
German invasion of, 12,
13
, 31, 47
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact and, 12,
47
Soviet domination of, 10, 19, 58–59, 60–61, 63
Pollak, Joel B., 9
Potsdam Conference, 63
Reeves, Richard, 67
Reichstag fire,
32
, 33
reparations
post–World War I, 26, 27, 28–29
post–World War II, 63
Rhineland, 31
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 47
Roberts, Andrew, 49–50
Röhm, Ernst, 30
Rommel, Erwin, 17
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
British Empire and, 19
death of, 61
declaration of war on Japan by, 39–41
end of racial discrimination in defense industry
by, 14
Japan and, 37, 39–41
secret agreement of, with Churchill, 44–45
on Stalin, 59
two-front war and, 34–35, 36–37
at Yalta, 59–61,
60
, 63
Royal Air Force (RAF, British), 13–15, 49
Rundstedt, Gerd von, 50
Russia, czarist, 36
Saunders, Frances Stonor, 69
Somalia, 11
