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Gimbel, John, 66 Lebensraum, 17, 32
Gollwitzer, Friedrich, 58–59 Levy, Walter, 30
Grew, Joseph, 42 Lloyd George, David, 25, 27
Harriman, W. Averell, 62 Manchuria, 37, 38, 39
Higgs, Robert, 36–37 Japanese troops in, 40
Himmler, Heinrich, 62 Marco Polo Bridge incident (1937),
Hindenburg, Paul von, 28 39
Hiott, Andrea, 68 Marshall, George C., 62, 63
Hirohito, 38–39 Marshall, S.L.A., 55
Hiroshima bombing, 22, 23 Marshall Plan, 62, 63, 65–66, 68
Hitler, Adolf, 15, 34 impact of, 67, 71
Anschluss policy of, 8 Masaryk, Jan, 71
arrival in Sudetenland, 9 Mein Kampf (Hitler), 32
on Aryan race, 32 Munich Conference (1938), 8–10
attempted assassination of, 57 Mussolini, Benito, 9, 20, 21
becomes chancellor of Germany, 35 death of, 20
commits suicide, 21–22, 59
declares war on Soviet Union, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty
18–19 Organization), 68–69
Dunkirk and, 16 Nazi Party (National Socialist German
Munich Conference and, 9, 10, 11 Workers’ Party), 31
Nazi Party and, 31 racial ideas of, 32
Pearl Harbor attack and, 47 rise in German government, 32, 35
view on communism, 17 Nazi-Soviet Pact, 13, 15, 18
Volkswagen and, 66 Nomura, Kichisaburo, 43–44, 45
Hull, Cordell, 44, 46–47 Normandy invasion (1944), 20–21,
53–57
Italy battle plan for, 51
Allied advance in, 48 landing at Omaha Beach, 54
defeat of, 20 preparation for, 50–51
Fascist movement in, 21 North Africa, 17
Japan Okinawa, 52
aggressive foreign policy of, 37–39 Operation Barbarossa, 17–19, 18, 20
attack on Pearl Harbor by, 19–20, 43, Operation Overlord, 49, 56
44–47, 47 See also Normandy invasion
economic embargoes on, 42, 44 Operation Vittles (Berlin Airlift),
expansion of, 38 65
surrender of, 23 Orlando, Vittorio, 25
Jodl, Alfred, 57 Oslo, Norway, 69
Kennan, George, 62 Pearl Harbor
Kennedy, David M., 43 attack on, 19–20, 43, 44–47, 47
Kissinger, Henry, 68, 69 US fleet moved to, 41
Konoe, Fumimaro, 42 Perry, Matthew, 36
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