Index

 

Abel, Elie, [>]

Admiralty Citadel (London), [>]

air power: Churchill on, [>], [>]–[>]

German use of, [>]

Akagi (aircraft carrier): sinking of, [>]

Alaska: Japan threatens, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Allied coalition: Australia and New Zealand in, [>]

Canada in, [>], [>], [>]

defends Burma, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

defends Netherlands East Indies, [>], [>], [>]

distrust of Churchill, [>], [>]

FDR controls war planning and prosecution for, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

FDR seeks to broaden, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Great Britain in, [>]

practical nature of, [>]

Ribbentrop proposes negotiations with, [>]

Stimson’s resistance to, [>]–[>]

threatens Italy, [>]

as United Nations, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

U.S. military aid to, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

U.S. as senior partner in, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

America First movement, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Amery, Leo: attempts to wreck Indian negotiations, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Arnim, Hans-Jürgen von (general), [>]

Arnold, Henry (general), [>], [>], [>], [>]

builds U.S. Army Air Forces, [>]–[>]

on Combined Chiefs of Staff, [>]

and Doolittle Raid (1942), [>]–[>]

and “Japan First” strategy, [>]–[>]

in London, [>]

opposes proposed North Africa landings, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>]

at Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and war planning, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Asia, Southeast: Japan invades, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Atlantic Charter (1941), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Cadogan drafts, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Churchill breaches, [>], [>], [>], [>]

revision and expansion of, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Soviet Union breaches, [>], [>]

atomic bomb: Stimson and development of, [>], [>]

Attlee, Clement, [>], [>], [>]

and India, [>], [>]

Auchinleck, Claude (general), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Australia: in Allied coalition, [>]

Japan threatens, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

MacArthur in, [>], [>], [>]

and Singapore, [>]–[>]

turns to U.S., [>]

U.S. protects, [>]

 

Bajpai, Sir Girja S., [>]

Balfour, Arthur, [>]

Bataan Death March (1942), [>], [>]

Battle of Britain, [>], [>]

Beardall, John R. (captain), [>]

Beaverbrook, Lord, [>]

ambitions, [>]

visits Washington, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

and war planning, [>]

Berle, Adolf: and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

Biddle, Francis: and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

Blitz. See Great Britain: German bombing of

Bloch, Claude C. (rear admiral)

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

Boeing Plant 2 (Seattle), [>], [>]

Bonham-Carter, Violet, [>]

Bonus March: MacArthur and, [>]

Bormann, Martin, [>]

Brady, Dorothy, [>]

British Army: excluded from North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

failures of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

lack of cohesion and organization, [>]–[>], [>]

Marshall and King criticize, [>]

British Eighth Army: flees from Rommel, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Montgomery commands, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

in North Africa, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

wins at El Alamein, [>]–[>], [>]

British Empire: as Commonwealth of Nations, [>]–[>]

Britain’s dependence on, [>]–[>]

Brooke and, [>]

Brown on, [>]

Churchill and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Churchill gives priority to preserving, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

colonial troops unwilling to fight for, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Dominions turn to U.S., [>]–[>], [>]

FDR’s attitude toward, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

social forces behind collapse of, [>]–[>], [>]

system of colonial administration in, [>]–[>]

U.S. unwilling to preserve, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

World War II and collapse of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Brook, Sir Norman, [>]

Brooke, Sir Alan (general), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

and British Empire, [>]

Marshall compared to, [>]

on military failures, [>]–[>]

opposes unity of command, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

and RAF’s lack of cooperation, [>]

and Singapore, [>]–[>]

and surrender of Tobruk, [>]

Brown, Judith: on British Empire, [>]

Bullitt, William C., [>]

Bundy, Harvey (colonel): at Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>], [>]–[>]

Burma: Allies defend, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

fall of, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Burns, James (general): at Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>]

 

Cadogan, Sir Alexander, [>]

on absence of leadership, [>]

drafts Atlantic Charter, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

at Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

questions imperial system, [>]

and surrender of Tobruk, [>]

California: Japan shells, [>]

Camp David. See Shangri-la (camp)

Camp Jackson (South Carolina), [>]

Camp Pendleton (California), [>]

Campbell, Sir Ronald, [>]

Canada: in Allied coalition, [>], [>], [>]

and Dieppe raid (1942), [>]–[>], [>]

in Operation Jubilee, [>]

war production, [>]

Caucasian oil fields: German assault on, [>], [>], [>]

Ceylon: Japan threatens, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Chamberlain, Neville, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Chiang Kai-shek, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

and Doolittle Raid (1942), [>]–[>]

Stilwell and, [>]

China: and Doolittle Raid (1942), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

U.S. military aid to, [>], [>], [>], [>]

war with Japan, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Chrysler Tank Arsenal (Detroit), [>]

Churchill, Clementine, [>], [>], [>]

Churchill, Winston: addresses Congress (1941), [>]–[>]

on air power, [>]–[>], [>]

alcoholic tendencies, [>], [>]

Allies’ distrust of, [>], [>]

anti-Indian bias, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

approves Dieppe raid (1942), [>]–[>]

attempts independent negotiations with Soviet Union, [>], [>], [>]

attempts to wreck Indian negotiations, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

blindness on colonialism, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

breaches Atlantic Charter, [>], [>], [>], [>]

breaks promises, [>]

and British Empire, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

character and personality, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Christmas visit to White House (1941–42), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

complacency after Midway victory, [>]–[>]

concedes Indian Dominion status, [>]–[>], [>]

conference with FDR (1942), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

contempt for Gandhi, [>]–[>], [>]

criticizes ability of British troops, [>], [>]

demands fight to the death at Singapore, [>], [>]–[>]

depression and exhaustion, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

and El Alamein, [>]–[>], [>]

Eleanor Roosevelt and, [>], [>], [>], [>]

FDR on, [>], [>]

FDR postpones meeting with, [>]–[>]

and first Anglo-American staff conference, [>]–[>]

first war strategy discussion with FDR, [>]–[>], [>]

gives priority to preserving British Empire, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Goebbels on, [>]–[>]

on Halifax, [>]

Halifax on, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Harriman and, [>], [>]–[>]

heart attack (1941), [>]

Hitler on, [>], [>]

Hopkins and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

at Hyde Park, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

ignorance of modern warfare, [>], [>]

inability to admit personal error, [>]–[>]

Ismay on, [>]

Jacob on, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

lack of leadership by, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

London War Rooms, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Mackenzie King on, [>]–[>]

management style, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Marshall distrusts, [>], [>]

mental stability questioned, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Morgenthau on, [>]–[>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

opposes Second Front strategy, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

panic-stricken plea for assistance, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

at Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

political pressures on, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

poor military judgment, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

postwar reinterpretation of Anglo-American alliance, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

and proposed landing in France (1942), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

and proposed North African landings, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

proposes invasion of Norway, [>], [>], [>]

as public speaker, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>]

and reinforcement of Egypt, [>]

relationship with FDR, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

restricted sources of information, [>]

The Second World War, [>], [>], [>]

shifts blame to U.S., [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

and sinking of HMS Prince of Wales, [>]–[>]

Smith on, [>]

“State of the War” address (1942), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Stilwell distrusts, [>]–[>]

Stimson distrusts, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

suppresses protests in India, [>], [>]

and surrender of Tobruk, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

threatens resignation, [>]–[>], [>]

and unity of command, [>]–[>], [>]

and U.S. war production, [>]–[>]

use of “Ultra,” [>]

as Victorian personality, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

wants U.S. in the war, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

war strategy, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

and Washington press conference (1941), [>]–[>]

weakening parliamentary support for, [>], [>]

Wedemeyer distrusts, [>]

Wilson (doctor) on, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Ciano, Galeazzo (count): and declaration of war, [>]–[>], [>]

on FDR, [>]–[>]

Clark, Mark (general), [>]

colonialism, British. See British Empire

Combined Chiefs of Staff, [>]

Brooke opposes, [>], [>]–[>]

composition of, [>], [>]

FDR creates, [>]–[>]

Leahy as chairman of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and proposed landing in France (1942), [>]

Commonwealth of Nations: British Empire as, [>]–[>]

Connally, Tom (senator): reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>]

Consolidated Vultee plant (Fort Worth), [>]

Cooper, Isabel Rosario, [>]

Coral Sea, Battle of (1942), [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Fletcher and, [>]

Cowles, John and Gardner, [>]

Cox, Vivian A. (sublieutenant)

and White House Map Room, [>]–[>], [>]

Cripps, Sir Stafford: mission to India, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Cunningham, Alan (general), [>], [>]

Curts, Maurice (commander), [>]

 

Dardanelles campaign (1915–16), [>]

Darlan, François (admiral), [>], [>]

and North Africa landings, [>]–[>], [>]

Darwin, Australia: Japanese air raid on, [>]

Davies, Joseph, [>]

De Gaulle, Charles (general), [>], [>], [>]

Delano, Laura, [>]

Dieppe, Canadian raid on (1942), [>], [>]

Churchill approves, [>]–[>]

German reaction to, [>]–[>]

Goebbels and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

Hitler and, [>]–[>]

losses in, [>]–[>], [>]

Mackenzie King on, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Mountbatten lies about losses in, [>]

Mountbatten proposes, [>]

RAF in, [>]

Stalin on, [>]–[>], [>]

Stimson and, [>]

Dietrich, Sepp (general), [>]

Dill, Sir John (field marshal), [>], [>]

and proposed landing in France, [>], [>]

on surrender of Tobruk, [>]

Donovan, William J. (colonel), [>], [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>]

Doolittle, James (general): bombs Tokyo, [>]

receives Medal of Honor, [>]

Doolittle Raid (1942): Arnold and, [>]–[>]

Chiang and, [>]–[>]

China and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

effect on Japanese war planning, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

FDR and, [>]–[>]

Japanese military reaction to, [>]–[>], [>]

King and, [>]–[>], [>]

Marshall and, [>]–[>]

McCrea and, [>]–[>]

psychological effects on Japan, [>], [>]–[>]

Stimson and, [>]–[>], [>]

Yamamoto and, [>]

Douglas Aircraft plant (Long Beach), [>]

Dunkirk: evacuation of, [>], [>]

 

Early, Steve, [>], [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>]

and Washington press conference (1941), [>]

Eden, Anthony, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Egypt: Churchill and reinforcement of, [>]

Marshall opposes U.S. reinforcement in, [>], [>]

Rommel threatens, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Second U.S. Armored Division’s tanks reinforce, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Eisenhower, Dwight, [>], [>]

and MacArthur, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

and proposed landing in France, [>], [>], [>]

as supreme commander of North Africa landings, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

as U.S. commander in Great Britain, [>], [>], [>]

and war planning, [>], [>], [>]

El Alamein, Battle of (1942): Churchill and, [>]–[>], [>]

Eighth Army wins, [>]–[>], [>]

FDR and, [>], [>]

Goebbels and, [>]–[>]

Hitler and, [>]

Montgomery at, [>]–[>], [>]

Rommel defeated at, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

“Ultra” at, [>]

Elsey, George (ensign): on FDR, [>]–[>]

and White House Map Room, [>]–[>], [>]

Espionage Act (1917): McCormick charged with violating, [>]

Estéva, Jean-Pierre (admiral), [>]

Eyre, James, [>]

 

Fahy, Charles, [>]

Fields, Alonzo, [>], [>]

Fleming, Philip (general): and presidential security, [>]–[>], [>]

Fletcher, Jack (admiral): and Battle of Coral Sea (1942), [>]

and Battle of Midway (1942), [>], [>]

Ford Willow Run plant (Detroit), [>]–[>]

France, proposed landing in (1942), [>], [>], [>]

Churchill and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Combined Chiefs of Staff and, [>]

Dill and, [>], [>]

Eisenhower and, [>], [>], [>]

FDR and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Hitler and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

King and, [>], [>], [>]

Knox and, [>]–[>]

Marshall and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Mountbatten and, [>]

Stimson and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

France, Vichy, [>], [>]

aids Germany, [>]

defends Madagascar, [>]

Germany occupies, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Goebbels and, [>]–[>]

Laval as premier of, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Leahy as ambassador to, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

as possible ally, [>], [>], [>]

Franco, Francisco (generalissimo), [>], [>], [>]

Freeman, Wilfrid (air vice marshal), [>]

 

Gallipoli, Battle of (1915), [>], [>]

Gandhi, Mahatma, [>], [>], [>]

Churchill’s contempt for, [>]–[>], [>]

George VI, [>], [>], [>], [>]

German Navy: escapes from Royal Navy, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

U-boat successes, [>]

Germany: assault on Caucasian oil fields, [>], [>], [>]

bombs Great Britain, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

civilian deaths in air raids, [>]

civilian morale in, [>]

declares war on U.S., [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

FDR attempts to avoid war with, [>], [>]–[>]

FDR on, [>]–[>]

Goebbels on war strategy of, [>]–[>]

Italy pressured by, [>]

nonaggression pact with Soviet Union, [>]–[>], [>]

occupies Vichy France, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

RAF’s “terror bombing” of, [>]–[>], [>]

reaction to Dieppe raid (1942), [>]–[>]

reaction to North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>]–[>]

reaction to surrender of Tobruk, [>]–[>]

relationship with Japan, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

superior military training and command in, [>]

as threat to Spain, [>], [>]–[>]

trade rivalry with Great Britain, [>]

U.S. declares war on, [>]–[>]

use of air power, [>]

Vichy France aids, [>]

war production, [>]

war with Soviet Union, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

“Germany First” strategy: FDR and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Giraud, Henri (general): and North Africa landings (1942), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Goebbels, Joseph, [>], [>]

on Churchill, [>]–[>]

and declaration of war, [>], [>]–[>]

and Dieppe raid (1942), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

and El Alamein, [>]–[>]

on FDR, [>]–[>], [>]

on German war strategy, [>]–[>]

on MacArthur, [>]

and North Africa landings, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

as propagandist, [>], [>], [>]

and Second Front strategy, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

and surrender of Tobruk, [>]–[>], [>]

on U.S. dominance in Allied coalition, [>]

and Vichy France, [>]–[>]

Gort, Lord, [>]

Gott, Richard (general), [>]

Great Britain: in Allied coalition, [>]

economic dependence on empire, [>]–[>]

Eisenhower as U.S. commander in, [>], [>], [>]

elitist attitudes in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

German bombing of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

global decline of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

isolationism in, [>]

Louis Johnson on, [>]

military forces. See British Army; Royal Navy

sentiments against in India, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

sentiments against in U.S., [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

shift in relations with U.S., [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

trade rivalry with Germany, [>]

Grew, Joseph, [>]

Griscom, Ludlow, [>]

Guadalcanal: strategic importance of, [>], [>], [>]

U.S. assault on, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Guam: Japan attacks, [>], [>], [>]

Guderian, Heinz (general), [>], [>]

 

Hachmeister, Louise, [>]

Halifax, Lord, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

attempts to wreck Indian negotiations, [>]

character and personality, [>]

Churchill on, [>]

on Churchill, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

and Churchill’s White House visit (1941), [>]–[>]

on FDR, [>]–[>], [>]

and proposed North Africa landings, [>], [>]

on RAF “terror bombing,” [>]

and surrender of Tobruk, [>]

on U.S. war production, [>]

Halsey, William (admiral), [>]

Hamilton, Alexander: on president as commander in chief, [>]

Handy, Thomas T. (general), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Hankey, Maurice, [>]

Hara, Tameichi (captain), [>]–[>]

Harmon, Ernest N. (general), [>]

Harriman, Averell, [>], [>], [>], [>]

and Churchill, [>], [>]–[>]

meets with Stalin, [>], [>]–[>]

at Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>]–[>]

reports on Soviet Union, [>]–[>]

and surrender of Tobruk, [>]

Hart, Thomas C. (admiral), [>], [>]

on amphibious warfare, [>]

defeatist attitude, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

FDR interviews, [>]–[>]

on Japanese character and preparedness, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

on Japanese military adaptability, [>]

on MacArthur, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and needs of modern warfare, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Wavell and, [>], [>]

Harwood, Sir Henry (admiral), [>]–[>]

Hassett, William, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Helfrich, Conrad (admiral): at Battle of Java Sea (1942), [>], [>]–[>]

Hewitt, H. Kent (admiral): and North Africa landings (1942), [>]–[>], [>]

Higgins, Andrew, [>]

Higgins Industries (New Orleans), [>]

Hirohito, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Hiryu (aircraft carrier): sinking of, [>]

Hitler, Adolf, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Anne Lindbergh on, [>]–[>]

on Churchill, [>], [>]

and declaration of war on U.S., [>]–[>]

and Dieppe raid (1942), [>]–[>]

and El Alamein, [>]

and extermination of Jews, [>], [>], [>]

forbids Rommel to retreat, [>]

ignorance of North Africa landings (1942), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

personal attack on FDR, [>]–[>], [>]

and proposed Allied landing in France (1942), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

and proposed North Africa landings, [>]

reaction to North Africa landings (1942), [>]–[>]

reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

and Second Front strategy, [>], [>]

on Stalin, [>]

use of bunker, [>], [>]

use of propaganda, [>]

war strategy, [>]–[>]

Hollis, Jo (brigadier), [>]

Holocaust, [>]–[>]

Homma, Masaharu (general), [>]

Hong Kong: Japan attacks, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Hooker, Harry, [>]

Hoover, Herbert, [>], [>], [>]

Hoover, J. Edgar, [>], [>]

Hopkins, Harry, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

character and personality, [>]–[>], [>]

and Churchill, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

and declaration of war, [>], [>], [>]

on FDR, [>]

on isolationism, [>]

in London, [>]–[>], [>]

meets with Stalin, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

at Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and proposed North Africa landings, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

and war planning, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Howard, Roy, [>]

Hu Shih (ambassador), [>]–[>]

Hull, Cordell, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

and declaration of war, [>], [>], [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

presses for Supreme Allied War Council, [>], [>]

reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>], [>]

and war planning, [>]–[>], [>]

Hyde Park: Churchill at, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

FDR at, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

 

Ickes, Harold, [>]

imperialism, British. See British Empire

India: Amery attempts to wreck negotiations with, [>], [>], [>], [>]

anti-British sentiment in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Attlee and, [>], [>]

Churchill attempts to wreck negotiations with, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

Churchill concedes Dominion status for, [>]–[>], [>]

Churchill suppresses protests in, [>], [>]

Churchill’s bias against, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

Cripps’s mission to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

FDR presses for self-government in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Halifax attempts to wreck negotiations with, [>]

Japan threatens, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Linlithgow and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

Long on, [>]–[>]

Louis Johnson and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Mackenzie King on, [>]

and Singapore, [>]–[>], [>]

U.S. and defense of, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Wavell and, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Indian Congress Party, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Indian National Army (INA), [>]

Indian Ocean: Japanese Navy in, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Royal Navy abandons, [>], [>], [>]

Inoue, Shigeyoshi (admiral), [>]

International Student Assembly: FDR addresses, [>]–[>]

Ismay, Hastings (general), [>], [>], [>]

on Churchill, [>]

isolationism: FDR rejects, [>]–[>]

in Great Britain, [>]

Hiram Johnson and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Hopkins on, [>]

Kennedy and, [>], [>]

Lindbergh and, [>], [>], [>], [>]

McCormick and, [>]

in U.S., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Wheeler and, [>], [>]

Italy: Allies threaten, [>]

in North Africa, [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>]

pressured by Germany, [>]

U.S. declares war on, [>]–[>]

 

Jacob, Ian (colonel), [>]–[>]

on Churchill, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

on FDR, [>]–[>]

on FDR’s war strategy, [>]

on first Anglo-American staff conference, [>]–[>]

at Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>], [>], [>], [>]

reaction to American wealth, [>]–[>]

on unity of command, [>]

Japan: air raid on Darwin, Australia, [>]

atrocities by military forces, [>], [>]

attacks Guam, [>], [>], [>]

attacks Hong Kong, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

attacks Midway, [>], [>]

attacks Pearl Harbor, [>], [>], [>]

attacks Philippines, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

attacks Singapore, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

attacks Wake Island, [>], [>]

avoids war with Soviet Union, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Doolittle Raid’s effect on war planning in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Doolittle Raid’s psychological effects on, [>], [>]–[>]

FDR refuses to preemptively attack, [>]–[>]

FDR sends plea for peace to, [>]–[>]

FDR’s policy toward, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Hart on character and preparedness of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Hart on military adaptability in, [>]

invades Malaya, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

invades Netherlands East Indies, [>], [>], [>]

invades Southeast Asia, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

MacArthur proposes negotiating with, [>]–[>], [>]

Philippines resists invasion by, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

relationship with Germany, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

shells California, [>]

terminates “peace” negotiations with U.S., [>]–[>], [>]

threatens Alaska, [>], [>], [>], [>]

threatens Australia and New Zealand, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

threatens Ceylon, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

threatens India, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

threatens mainland U.S., [>], [>]

and unity of command, [>]

U.S. declares war on, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

use of propaganda, [>]

war with China, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

war production, [>], [>]

war strategy, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

“Japan First” strategy, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

FDR responds to, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Joint Chiefs of Staff and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

Japanese Americans: FDR and internment of, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Japanese Imperial Navy: Army Air Forces compared to, [>]–[>]

decimates Royal Navy, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

defeated in Battle of Midway (1942), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

in Indian Ocean, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Nimitz and, [>]–[>]

in Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

use of air power, [>]–[>]

Java Sea, Battle of (1942): Helfrich at, [>], [>]–[>]

Jews: Hitler and extermination of, [>], [>], [>]

Laval and extermination of, [>], [>]

Jinnah, Mohammed, [>]

Johnson, Hiram (senator): as isolationist, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Johnson, Louis (colonel): on Great Britain, [>]

and India, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Jones, W. R., [>]–[>]

Juin, Alphonse (general), [>]

Juliana, Princess, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

 

Kaiser, Henry, [>], [>]

Kaiser shipyard (Oregon), [>]–[>]

Kennedy, Joseph P. (ambassador): as isolationist, [>], [>]

Kenney, George (general): on MacArthur, [>]

Kimmel, Husband (admiral), [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

King, Ernest (admiral), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

and Battle of Midway (1942), [>]–[>]

on Combined Chiefs of Staff, [>]

criticizes British Army, [>]

and Doolittle Raid (1942), [>]–[>], [>]

and “Japan First” strategy, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>], [>], [>]

opposes proposed North Africa landings, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

at Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and proposed landing in France, [>], [>], [>], [>]

and war planning, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

and Yamamoto, [>]

Knox, Frank, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

and proposed landing in France, [>]–[>]

and proposed North Africa landings, [>]

and War Department mutiny, [>]

and war planning, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Knudsen, William, [>]

Kurusu, Saburo (ambassador), [>], [>], [>]

 

La Guardia, Fiorello, [>]

Lake Pend Oreille (Idaho), [>]

Landon, Alfred M., [>]

Laval, Pierre: and extermination of Jews, [>], [>]

as premier of Vichy France, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Leahy, William (admiral): as ambassador to Vichy France, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

as chairman of Combined Chiefs of Staff, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

as FDR’s chief of staff, [>], [>], [>], [>]

and Joint Chiefs of Staff, [>]–[>], [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and proposed North Africa landings, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

and Stimson, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

LeHand, Marguerite, [>]

Lend-Lease Act (1941), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Lexington (aircraft carrier): sinking of, [>]

Lidell, Alvar, [>]

Lincoln, Abraham, [>], [>], [>]

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow: on Hitler, [>]–[>]

Lindbergh, Charles: FDR and, [>]–[>]

as pro-Nazi isolationist, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

requests military commission, [>]–[>]

Linlithgow, Lord: despises U.S., [>]

and India, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

as racist, [>]

Long, Breckinridge: on India, [>]–[>]

on surrender of Tobruk, [>]–[>]

on U.S. military isolation, [>]

Lovett, Robert A., [>]

Luftwaffe. See Germany: use of air power

 

MacArthur, Douglas (general), [>], [>], [>], [>]

appointed Far East commander, [>]

in Australia, [>], [>], [>]

and Bonus March, [>]

character and personality, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Eisenhower and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

evacuation of, [>]

FDR on, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Goebbels on, [>]

Hart on, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

impossible demands by, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

and “Japan First” strategy, [>]

Kenney on, [>]

lack of war preparations, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Marshall and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

and military budget cuts, [>]–[>]

military failures in Philippines, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

misinforms Quezon, [>], [>], [>], [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

as politician, [>]

proposed as “commander in chief,” [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

proposes negotiating with Japan, [>]–[>], [>]

public adulation for, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

refuses to accept orders, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

refuses unity of command, [>]–[>]

relationship with FDR, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

in retirement, [>]

sanity questioned, [>], [>], [>], [>]

soldiers’ opinion of, [>]–[>]

Stimson and, [>]–[>], [>]

strategic pronouncements, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

as supreme theater commander, [>]–[>]

takes bribe from Quezon, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

untruthful reports by, [>]–[>], [>]

use of propaganda, [>]–[>]

Mackenzie King, William, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

on British global decline, [>]–[>]

on Churchill, [>]–[>]

on Dieppe raid (1942), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

and Dutch royal family, [>]–[>]

and FDR, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

on India, [>]

and North Africa landings, [>], [>]

opposes Second Front strategy, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

and war planning, [>]–[>]

Madagascar: Vichy France defends, [>]

“Magic” (decryption of “Purple” code). See also “Purple” (Japanese code)

FDR’s use of, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Nimitz’s use of, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Malaya: Japan invades, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

maps: FDR’s love of, [>]

Marshall, George C. (general), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

administrative abilities, [>], [>], [>], [>]

attacks British military abilities, [>]

attacks politicians, [>]

attempts to limit North Africa landings, [>]

character and personality, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

on Combined Chiefs of Staff, [>]

compared to Brooke, [>]

criticizes British Army, [>]

distrusts Churchill, [>], [>]

and Doolittle Raid, [>]–[>]

and German invasion of Soviet Union, [>]

and MacArthur, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

opposes proposed North Africa landings, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

opposes U.S. reinforcement in Egypt, [>], [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

at Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

and proposed landing in France, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

proposes “Japan First” strategy, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

recommends unity of command, [>]–[>]

relationship with FDR, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

and Second Front strategy, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

and sedition, [>], [>]

on U.S. lack of preparedness, [>]

and War Department mutiny, [>], [>]

and war planning, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Martha, Princess, [>], [>], [>]

Martin, John, [>]

McClellan, George C. (general), [>], [>]

McCloy, John, [>]

McCormick, Robert: attacks FDR’s war plans, [>]

charged with violation of Espionage Act, [>]

as isolationist, [>]

leaks secret military intelligence, [>]

publishes “Victory Plan,” [>], [>], [>], [>]

McCrea, John (captain), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

and Doolittle Raid, [>]–[>]

on FDR, [>]–[>]

and Shangri-la, [>]–[>]

and war planning, [>]

McIntire, Ross (admiral): as FDR’s physician, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

McNarney, Joseph (general), [>]–[>], [>], [>]

opposes proposed North Africa landings, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and war planning, [>]

Medal of Honor: Doolittle receives, [>]

Middle East: British military collapse in, [>]

Midway: Japan attacks (1941), [>], [>]

Yamamoto targets, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Midway, Battle of (1942), [>], [>]

Churchill complacent after, [>]–[>]

Fletcher and, [>], [>]

Japanese Navy defeated at, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

King and, [>]–[>]

Nagumo and, [>], [>]

Nimitz and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Spruance and, [>], [>]

U.S. losses in, [>]

U.S. preparations for, [>]–[>]

Yamamoto and, [>]–[>]

Mikoyan, Artem, [>]

Molotov, Vyacheslav, [>], [>], [>]

Montgomery, Bernard (general), [>]

commands Eighth Army, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

at El Alamein, [>]–[>], [>]

Montgomery, Robert (lieutenant): and presidential security, [>], [>]

Morgenthau, Henry: on Churchill, [>]–[>]

and presidential security, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>]–[>]

Morton, H. V.: at Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>], [>]

Mott, William C. (lieutenant), [>], [>]

Mountbatten, Louis (admiral): lies about losses in Dieppe raid (1942), [>]

and proposed landing in France, [>]

proposes Dieppe raid, [>]

Murphy, Robert: and North Africa landings, [>], [>]–[>]

Murrow, Edward R.: and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>]

Muslim League, [>]

Mussolini, Benito, [>], [>]

 

Nagumo, Chuichi (admiral), [>]

and Battle of Midway (1942), [>], [>]

Nehru, Jawaharlal, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Nelson, Donald, [>], [>]

Netherlands East Indies: Allies defend, [>], [>], [>]

fall of, [>], [>]

Japan invades, [>], [>], [>]

neutrality: U.S. and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Neutrality Act (1939), [>]

New Zealand: in Allied coalition, [>]

Japan threatens, [>], [>], [>]

U.S. protects, [>]

Newfoundland summit meeting (1941). See Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941)

Nicolson, Harold: criticizes British troops, [>]–[>]

Nimitz, Chester (admiral): and Battle of Midway (1942), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and “Japan First” strategy, [>]

and Japanese Navy, [>]–[>]

as supreme theater commander, [>]–[>]

use of “Magic,” [>], [>], [>]–[>]

and war planning, [>]

Nogues, Charles (general), [>]

Nomura, Kichisaburo (ambassador): and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

North Africa: British Eighth Army in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Italy in, [>]

North Africa landings, proposed, [>], [>], [>]

Arnold opposes, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Churchill and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

FDR and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Hitler and, [>]

Hopkins and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

King opposes, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Knox and, [>]

Leahy and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Marshall opposes, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

McNarney opposes, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Stimson opposes, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

strategic value of, [>]–[>]

in “Victory Plan,” [>], [>]–[>]

War Department opposes, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Wedemeyer and, [>], [>]

North Africa landings (Operation Torch, 1942), [>]–[>]

armistice, [>]–[>]

British Army excluded from, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Churchill and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Darlan and, [>]–[>], [>]

domestic political impact of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Eisenhower as supreme commander of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

FDR and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

German reaction to, [>], [>]–[>]

Giraud and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Goebbels and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

Hewitt and, [>]–[>], [>]

Hitler’s ignorance of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Hitler’s reaction to, [>]–[>]

Hopkins and, [>], [>]

Hull and, [>]

Italy and, [>], [>]

King and, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Leahy and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Mackenzie King and, [>], [>]

Marshall and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Marshall attempts to limit, [>]

Murphy and, [>], [>]–[>]

as necessary experience for U.S. Army, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Patton and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

Pétain and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

planning and preparations for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

public announcement of, [>]–[>], [>]

Rommel and, [>]

Royal Navy and, [>]

Sherwood on, [>]

Spain and, [>], [>]

Stalin and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Stimson and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Stimson attempts to limit, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

strategic importance of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

Suckley and, [>]–[>]

Vichy France and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Norway: Churchill proposes invasion of, [>], [>], [>]

 

Operation Barbarossa. See Germany: war with Soviet Union

Operation Bolero. See France: proposed Allied landing in

Operation Edelweiss, [>]

Operation Gymnast. See North Africa landings, proposed

Operation Jubilee. See Dieppe, Canadian raid on (1942)

Operation Sledgehammer. See France: proposed Allied landing in

Operation Torch. See North Africa landings (Operation Torch, 1942)

Osawa, Jisaburo (admiral), [>]

Osmeña, Sergio, [>]–[>]

 

Pacific Ocean: FDR’s strategy in, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Pacific War Council, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Panama Canal Zone, [>]

Pan-American Union: FDR addresses, [>]

Patton, George S. (general), [>], [>], [>]–[>]

character and personality, [>]

FDR on, [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

Paulus, Friedrich (general), [>]

Pearl Harbor: FDR visits, [>]

fear of sabotage at, [>]

fleet augmented at, [>]

rebuilding of Navy at, [>], [>]–[>]

Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Army Air Forces and, [>], [>], [>]

Arnold and, [>], [>], [>]

Berle and, [>]

Biddle and, [>]

Bloch and, [>]

Churchill and, [>]–[>]

congressional reaction to, [>]–[>]

Connally and, [>]–[>]

conspiracy theories about, [>]–[>]

damage incurred, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Donovan and, [>]–[>]

Early and, [>], [>]

FDR’s reaction to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Hitler’s reaction to, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Hopkins and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Hull and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Japanese Navy in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Kimmel and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Knox and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

lack of preparedness for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

MacArthur and, [>]

“Magic” and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Marshall and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Morgenthau and, [>], [>]–[>]

Murrow and, [>]–[>]

Navy and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Nomura and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Perkins and, [>]

Poindexter and, [>], [>]

public’s reaction to, [>], [>]–[>]

Safford and, [>]

Sherwood and, [>]

Stark and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Stimson and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

as strategic preemptive act, [>], [>], [>]

Thompson and, [>]

Tully and, [>], [>]–[>]

Turner and, [>]

Winant and, [>]

Yamamoto and, [>]–[>]

Percival, Arthur (general): and Singapore, [>], [>], [>]

Perkins, Frances: and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

Pershing, John J. (general), [>], [>]

Pétain, Philippe (marshal), [>], [>], [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Philippines: fall of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

FDR orders continued resistance in, [>]–[>], [>]

impossibility of U.S. relief, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

independence from U.S., [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Japan attacks, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

Japanese atrocities in, [>], [>]

MacArthur’s military failures in, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

resists Japanese invasion, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Stimson as governor-general of, [>]–[>]

as U.S. ally, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

U.S. military reinforcements in, [>]–[>], [>]

Phillips, Thomas (fleet admiral), [>]

Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>], [>], [>], [>]

church service at, [>]–[>]

confusion and lack of preparation for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

FDR’s strategy for managing, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

joint declaration of principles at, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

journalists at, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

secrecy at, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Pogue, Forrest, [>]

Poindexter, Joseph (governor): and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>]

Portal, Charles (air marshal), [>], [>]

Pound, Dudley (admiral), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Prince of Wales (battleship): sinking of, [>], [>]–[>]

propaganda: FDR’s use of, [>]–[>], [>]

Hitler’s use of, [>]

Japan’s use of, [>]

MacArthur’s use of, [>]–[>]

“Purple” (Japanese code). See also “Magic” (decryption of “Purple” code)

U.S. Army decrypts, [>]

 

Quezon, Manuel (president): attacks FDR, [>]–[>]

evacuation of, [>]–[>]

FDR and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

MacArthur misinforms, [>], [>], [>], [>]

MacArthur takes bribe from, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

proposes Philippine independence and neutrality, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

 

Reid, Ogden, [>]

Reynolds, David, [>]

Ribbentrop, Joachim von: and declaration of war, [>]–[>], [>]

proposes negotiations with Allies, [>]

Ritchie, Neil (general), [>], [>]

Rochefort, Joseph (commander), [>]

Rogers, Paul P. (private), [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Rommel, Erwin (general), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

defeated at El Alamein, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Eighth Army flees from, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

forbidden to retreat, [>], [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>]

promoted to field marshal, [>], [>], [>], [>]

retreats, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and surrender of Tobruk, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

threatens Egypt, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Romulo, Carlos, [>]

Roosevelt, Anna, [>], [>]

Roosevelt, Eleanor, [>], [>], [>]

and Churchill, [>], [>], [>], [>]

domestic life, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

as FDR’s eyes and ears, [>]

as White House hostess, [>]–[>]

Roosevelt, Elliott: at Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Roosevelt, Franklin D.: addresses International Student Assembly, [>]–[>]

announces war production goals, [>], [>]

as assistant secretary of the Navy, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

attempts to avoid war with Germany, [>], [>]–[>]

attitude toward British Empire, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

and British decolonization, [>]

on British global decline, [>]–[>]

broad war strategy, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

character and personality, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

on Churchill, [>], [>]

Churchill threatens resignation, [>]–[>]

Ciano on, [>]–[>]

and cocktail hour, [>], [>]

conference with Churchill (1942), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

controls Allied war planning and prosecution, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

creates Combined Chiefs of Staff, [>]–[>]

and declaration of war, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

and Doolittle Raid (1942), [>]–[>]

and Dutch royal family, [>]–[>]

and El Alamein, [>], [>]

Elsey on, [>]–[>]

explains the war to the public, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Fireside Chats, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

and first Anglo-American staff conference, [>]–[>]

first war strategy discussion with Churchill, [>]–[>], [>]

on Germany, [>]–[>]

and “Germany First” strategy, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Goebbels on, [>]–[>], [>]

Halifax on, [>]–[>], [>]

Hitler’s personal attack on, [>]–[>], [>]

Hopkins on, [>]

at Hyde Park, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

insists on unity of command, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

and internment of Japanese Americans, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

interviews Hart, [>]–[>]

Jacob on, [>]–[>]

Leahy as chief of staff to, [>], [>], [>], [>]

and Lindbergh, [>]–[>]

love of maps, [>]

on MacArthur, [>], [>], [>]

Mackenzie King and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

management style, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

McCrea on, [>]–[>]

McIntire as physician to, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

and modern warfare, [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

and official secrets, [>]

orders continued resistance in Philippines, [>]–[>], [>]

Pacific war strategy, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Pan-American Union address, [>]

on Patton, [>]

personal preference for Navy, [>]–[>], [>]

physical disability, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

at Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

plans war crimes trials, [>]–[>]

policy toward Japan, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

political longevity, [>]–[>]

postpones meeting with Churchill, [>]–[>]

postwar goals, [>], [>]

and preparation of “Victory Plan,” [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

prepares for war, [>]–[>], [>]

press hostility to, [>]

presses for Indian self-government, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

“Progress of the War” Fireside Chat (1942), [>]–[>], [>]

and proposed landing in France (1942), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

and proposed North Africa landings (1942), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

as public speaker, [>]–[>]

and Quezon, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Quezon attacks, [>]–[>]

reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

reaction to surrender of Tobruk, [>]

reaction to War Department mutiny, [>]–[>]

refuses neutralization of Philippines, [>]

refuses to preemptively attack Japan, [>]–[>]

refuses to rescue Royal Navy, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

rejects isolationism, [>]–[>]

rejects Supreme Allied War Council, [>]

relationship with Churchill, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

relationship with MacArthur, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

relationship with Marshall, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

relationship with Stimson, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

responds to “Japan First” strategy, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

and revision of Atlantic Charter, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

in role as commander in chief, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

Rosenman on, [>]–[>]

Rosenman as speechwriter for, [>]

and Second Front strategy, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

seeks moral superiority in war, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

seeks to broaden Allied coalition, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

sends plea for peace to Japan, [>]–[>]

Sherwood as speechwriter for, [>], [>], [>], [>]

“special sources” of information, [>]–[>]

State of the Union address (1942), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Stilwell on, [>], [>]

Stimson’s resistance to, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

strategy for managing Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

tours U.S. war production, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

use of “Magic,” [>], [>], [>], [>]

use of propaganda, [>]–[>], [>]

use of “Ultra,” [>]

view of American postwar destiny, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

visits Pearl Harbor, [>]

War Department mutinies against, [>]–[>]

War Department’s resistance to, [>], [>]

warns of rumor and misinformation, [>]

and wartime security, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and Washington press conference (1941), [>]–[>]

and White House bunker, [>]–[>]

Wilson on, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr.: at Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Roosevelt, James (captain), [>], [>]

Roosevelt, Sara: death of, [>], [>]

Rosenman, Samuel: on FDR, [>]–[>]

as FDR’s speechwriter, [>]

Roxas, Manuel, [>]

Royal Air Force: in Dieppe raid (1942), [>]

lack of cooperation by, [>]

“terror bombing” of Germany, [>]–[>], [>]

Royal Navy: abandons Indian Ocean, [>], [>], [>]

FDR refuses to rescue, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

German Navy escapes from, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

ignorance of modern warfare, [>]

Japanese Navy decimates, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>]

Stark and, [>]–[>]

Russia. See Soviet Union

 

Safford, Laurance (commander): and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

Sayre, Francis, [>], [>]

Schwien, Edwin (colonel), [>]

Second Front strategy

Churchill opposes, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

FDR and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

Goebbels and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Hitler and, [>], [>]

Mackenzie King opposes, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

Marshall and, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

public pressure for, [>]–[>], [>]

Soviet Union and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Stimson and, [>]–[>]

Willkie and, [>]

The Second World War (Churchill), [>], [>], [>]

sedition: Marshall and, [>], [>]

Stimson and, [>]

Seeley, Sir John, [>]

Selective Service Act (1940), [>], [>]

Stimson and, [>]

Shangri-la (camp), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

McCrea and, [>]–[>]

Sherwood, Robert, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

as FDR’s speechwriter, [>], [>], [>]

on North Africa landings (1942), [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

Short, Walter (general), [>]

Singapore: Australia and, [>]–[>]

Brooke and, [>]–[>]

Churchill demands fight to the death at, [>], [>]–[>]

fall of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

India and, [>]–[>], [>]

Japan attacks, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

Japanese atrocities in, [>], [>]

Percival and, [>], [>], [>]

symbolic and strategic importance of, [>]

Wavell and, [>], [>]–[>]

Smith, A. Merriman: on Churchill, [>]

Smith, Walter Bedell (general), [>], [>]

Smuts, Jan (field marshal), [>]

Soldiers and Statesmen (Robertson), [>]

Soong, T. V., [>]

Soviet Union: breaches Atlantic Charter, [>], [>]

Churchill attempts independent negotiations with, [>], [>], [>]

defense of Stalingrad, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Harriman reports on, [>]–[>]

Japan avoids war with, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

nonaggression pact with Germany, [>], [>]

postwar territorial ambitions, [>], [>], [>]

relationship with U.S., [>]

rise to world power, [>]

and Second Front strategy, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

U.S. military aid to, [>]

war with Germany, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Spain: Germany as threat to, [>], [>]–[>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>]

Speer, Albert, [>]

Spruance, Raymond (admiral): and Battle of Midway (1942), [>], [>]

Stalin, Joseph, [>], [>], [>]

character and personality, [>]

on Dieppe raid, [>]–[>], [>]

Harriman meets with, [>], [>]–[>]

Hitler on, [>]

Hopkins meets with, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

postwar goals, [>]

wants U.S. in the war, [>]

war strategy, [>]–[>]

Stalingrad: Soviet defense of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Stark, Harold R. (admiral), [>], [>], [>], [>]

on Combined Chiefs of Staff, [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

at Placentia Bay summit meeting (1941), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

and Royal Navy, [>]–[>]

and war planning, [>], [>], [>]

Stilwell, Joseph (general): and Chiang Kai-shek, [>]

distrusts Churchill, [>]–[>]

on FDR, [>], [>]

and proposed North Africa landings, [>], [>]

Stimson, Henry, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

attempts to limit North Africa landings, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

character and personality, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

and declaration of war, [>]

defeatist attitude, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

and development of atomic bomb, [>], [>]

and Dieppe raid (1942), [>]

distrusts Churchill, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

and Doolittle Raid (1942), [>]–[>], [>]

and fall of Philippines, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

on first Anglo-American staff conference, [>]–[>]

as governor-general of Philippines, [>]–[>]

inability to admit personal error, [>]–[>]

and internment of Japanese Americans, [>]

and “Japan First” strategy, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Leahy and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

and MacArthur, [>]–[>], [>]

and North Africa landings (1942), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

opposes proposed North Africa landings, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>]

on president as commander in chief, [>]–[>]

and proposed landing in France (1942), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

public criticism of, [>]

reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>]

relationship with FDR, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

resistance to Allied coalition, [>]–[>]

resistance to FDR, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

and Second Front strategy, [>]–[>]

and sedition, [>]

and Selective Service Act (1940), [>]

threatens resignation, [>]–[>], [>]

and War Department mutiny, [>]–[>]

and war planning, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

and White House Map Room, [>], [>]

Stumme, Georg (general), [>]

Suckley, Margaret (“Daisy”), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

and North Africa landings, [>]–[>]

on U.S. war production, [>]–[>], [>]

Supreme Allied War Council: FDR rejects, [>]

Hull presses for, [>], [>]

supreme theater commanders. See unity of command

Sutherland, Richard K. (general), [>]

Sweden, [>]

 

Thoma, Wilhelm von (general), [>]–[>]

Thomas, Elbert D. (senator), [>]

Thompson, Tommy (commander): reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

Thomsen, Hans, [>]

Thomsen, Malvina, [>]

Timoshenko, Semyon (marshal), [>]

Tobruk, surrender of (1942), [>], [>], [>], [>]

Brooke and, [>]

Cadogan and, [>]

Churchill and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Dill on, [>]

FDR’s reaction to, [>]

German reaction to, [>]–[>]

Goebbels and, [>]–[>], [>]

Halifax and, [>]

Harriman and, [>]

Long on, [>]–[>]

Rommel and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Todt, Fritz, [>]

Togo, Shigenori, [>], [>]

Tojo, Hideki, [>], [>]

Tokyo: Doolittle bombs, [>]

Tripartite Pact (1940), [>]–[>], [>]

Truscott, Lucian, Jr. (general), [>]

Tugwell, Rexford, [>]

Tully, Grace, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>]–[>]

Turner, Richmond K. (admiral): and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]

and war planning, [>]

Tydings-McDuffie Act (1934), [>]–[>]

 

Ugaki, Matome (admiral), [>]–[>]

“Ultra” (intelligence): Churchill’s use of, [>]

at El Alamein, [>]

FDR’s use of, [>]

United Nations: Allied coalition as, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

United States: and amphibious warfare, [>], [>]

anti-British sentiment in, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

anti-Japanese sentiment in, [>], [>], [>]

assault on Guadalcanal, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Australia turns to, [>]

British Dominions turn to, [>]–[>], [>]

Churchill shifts blame to, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

declares war on Germany and Italy, [>]–[>]

declares war on Japan, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and defense of India, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Germany declares war on, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

inability to relieve Philippines, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

isolationism in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Japan terminates “peace” negotiations with, [>]–[>], [>]

Japan threatens mainland of, [>], [>]

lack of preparedness for war, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Linlithgow despises, [>]

Long on military isolation of, [>]

military aid to Allies, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

military aid to China, [>], [>], [>], [>]

military aid to Soviet Union, [>]

and neutrality, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

and Philippine independence, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

Philippines as ally of, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

protects Australia and New Zealand, [>]

relationship with Soviet Union, [>]

rise to world power, [>]–[>]

as senior partner in Allied coalition, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

shift in relations with Great Britain, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

threat of air raids on, [>]–[>], [>]

unwilling to preserve British Empire, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Vichy France as possible ally of, [>], [>], [>]

war production, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

unity of command: Brooke opposes, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Churchill and, [>], [>]

FDR insists on, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

Jacob on, [>]

Japan and, [>], [>]

Marshall recommends, [>]–[>]

Navy opposes, [>]

U.S. Air Corps. See U.S. Army Air Forces

U.S. Army: “citizen” character of, [>]–[>]

decrypts Japan’s “Purple” code, [>]

and desert fighting, [>]–[>]

lack of cooperation with Navy, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

North Africa landings as necessary experience for, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

reinforces Philippines, [>]–[>], [>]

Second Armored Division’s tanks reinforce Egypt, [>], [>], [>], [>]

U.S. Army Air Forces, [>], [>]

Arnold builds, [>]–[>]

compared to Japanese Navy, [>]–[>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>], [>], [>]

U.S. Congress: Churchill addresses (1941), [>]–[>]

power to declare war, [>], [>]

reaction to Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>]

wartime security for, [>]

U.S. Conservation Corps, [>], [>]

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff: and “Japan First” strategy, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

Leahy and, [>]–[>], [>]

U.S. Marine Corps: and amphibious warfare, [>]

U.S. Navy: errors of judgment by, [>]

FDR’s personal preference for, [>]–[>], [>]

fleet augmented at Pearl Harbor, [>]

lack of cooperation with Army, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

and needs of modern warfare, [>]–[>]

opposes unity of command, [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

rebuilding of at Pearl Harbor, [>], [>]–[>]

use of air power by, [>]–[>]

U.S. War Department: erroneous predictions by, [>], [>]–[>]

FDR’s reaction to mutiny by, [>]–[>]

mutinies against FDR, [>]–[>]

opposes proposed North Africa landings, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

resistance to FDR in, [>], [>]

unauthorized leaks by, [>], [>], [>]

U.S. War Production Board, [>], [>]

Vichy France. See France, Vichy

“Victory Plan”: FDR and preparation of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

McCormick leaks, [>], [>], [>], [>]

North Africa landings in, [>], [>]–[>]

 

Wainwright, Jonathan (general), [>], [>]

Wake Island: Japan attacks, [>], [>]

Wallace, Henry, [>], [>]

war crimes trials: FDR plans, [>]–[>]

war production: of Canada, [>]

Churchill and, [>]–[>]

FDR announces goals for, [>], [>]

FDR tours, [>]–[>], [>]

of Germany, [>]

Halifax on, [>]

of Japan, [>], [>]

Suckley on, [>]–[>], [>]

of U.S., [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

women in, [>]

warfare, amphibious: Hart on, [>]

U.S. and, [>], [>]

U.S. Marines and, [>]

warfare, modern: Churchill’s ignorance of, [>]

FDR and, [>]

Hart and needs of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Navy and needs of, [>]–[>]

Royal Navy’s ignorance of, [>]

Washington, George, [>], [>]

Watson, Edwin (general), [>]–[>], [>]

at Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>], [>], [>]

Wavell, Sir Archibald (general), [>]

and Hart, [>], [>]

and India, [>], [>], [>], [>]

and Singapore, [>], [>]–[>]

as supreme theater commander, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

Wedemeyer, Albert (colonel), [>]

distrusts Churchill, [>]

and proposed North Africa landings, [>], [>]

Welles, Sumner, [>], [>]

and declaration of war, [>]

drafts Atlantic Charter, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

at Placentia Bay summit meeting, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

Weygand, Maxime (general), [>], [>], [>]

Wheeler, Burton K. (senator): as isolationist, [>], [>]

White House: Churchill’s Christmas visit to (1941–42), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Map Room, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

wartime communications facilities, [>]–[>]

wartime security for, [>]–[>], [>]

Wilhelmina, Queen, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Willkie, Wendell, [>], [>]

proposes MacArthur as “commander in chief,” [>]–[>]

and Second Front strategy, [>]

Wilson, Sir Charles: on Churchill, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

and Churchill’s White House visit, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

on FDR, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Winant, John (ambassador), [>], [>], [>], [>]

Windsor, Duke and Duchess of, [>]

Wolfe, James (general), [>]–[>]

women: in war production, [>]

World War I, [>], [>]

military command in, [>]

World War II: and collapse of British Empire, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

 

Yamamoto, Isoroku (admiral): and Battle of Coral Sea, [>]–[>]

and Battle of Midway (1942), [>]–[>]

and Doolittle Raid (1942), [>]

King and, [>]

and Pearl Harbor attack, [>]–[>]

targets Midway, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

Yorktown (aircraft carrier), [>], [>]

 

Zhukov, Georgy (general), [>]