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Anglo-French relations: and Dunkirk evacuation, 98–99; and fall of France, 101; interwar, 29–32

Anglo-German Naval Agreement (1935), 30, 43

Anti-Communist Pact (1937), 37. See also Axis Pact

Anti-Semitism. See Jews

Anzio, Italy, landing at, 302, 303

Appeasement policies, 56–57; at Munich, 61, 62

Arcadia Conference (1941), 184, 223

Ardennes Forest, Belgium, 26, 94, 96. See also Battle of the Bulge

Arnhem, Battle of, 325–326

Arnim, Jurgen von, 230

Aryan types, in Nazi ideology, 191–192

Atlantic Charter, 120–121

Atomic bomb, American use of, 374–375

Attlee, Clement, 187

Auchinleck, Sir Claude (“Auk, the”), 148, 219, 220

Auschwitz, 198

Australia: Japanese threat to, 213–214; in offensive in Pacific, 255, 334; and South African theater, 222

Austria, 35, 37, 55–57. See also Austro-Hungarian Empire

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 21, 33, 55

Axis, 45, 219–220, 292. See also Italy; Japan; Nazi Germany; World War II

B-25 bombers, 213

B-29 Superfortress, 366

Badoglio, 295, 296

Bali, Japanese conquest of, 205

Balkans, 140–141, 247, 383; See also Greece; Yugoslavia

Baltic republics. See Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania

Bataan, 209–211

“Bataan Death March,” 211

Battle of the Atlantic, 123–126; British ships lost during, 128; famous battles of, 131–136; U-boats sunk in, 126–127; and U.S. entry into war, 130 Battle of Britain, 105–114, 275; and aircraft production, 110; impact on U.S., 118–119; military effects, 115; Soviet attitude toward, 150

Battle of the Bulge, 352–355

Bavaria: Beer-Hall Putsch, 40; Soviet Government in, 39

Beaverbrook, Lord, 110

Beck, Ludwig, 61

Beer-Hall Putsch, 40

Belgium: German invasion of, 43, 91–98; liberation of, 324–326; and Maginot Line, 25–26; Resistance in, 273

Belgrade, Yugoslavia, bombing of, 143

Belsen, 198

Benedictine Abbey, Cassino, Italy, 301; bombing of, 304

Berlin, Germany: Allied-Soviet race toward, 356, 360–362; bombing of, 112, 113, 280, 282; Russian invasion of, 361–363

Biak (Schouten Islands), 334–335

“Big Four,” 382

Big Three. See Allied conferences; Churchill; Roosevelt; Stalin

Bir Hacheim, Battle of, 218–219

Bismarck, sinking of, 133–135

Blamey, Sir Thomas, 372

Blomberg, General von, 43–44

Bloody Nose Ridge. See Urumbrogol Mountain

Bock, Feodor von, 69, 94, 100, 152

Bolero Conference (1942), 184, 223–224

Bombing: of Bataan, 211; of Belgrade, 143; of Berlin, 112, 113, 280, 282; of Canton, 161; of Ceylon, 208; of Cologne, 277–279; of Coventry, 114; of Darwin, 205; of Finnish cities, 81; of Germany, see Strategic bombing campaign; of Helsinki, 80; of Japan, 364, 366, 367, 372–373; of London, see Battle of Britain; of Norsk Hydro Plant in Norway, 268–269; of Pearl Harbor, see Pearl Harbor bombing; of Philippines, 208–209; of Rotterdam, 95; of Tokyo, see Tokyo

Bonin Islands. See Chichi Jima; Iwo Jima

Borneo, 205, 372

Bradley, Omar, 318, 320, 321, 324, 351, 353, 354

Brauchitsch, General von, 44, 232

Braun, Eva, 362

British Army. See British Expeditionary Force; Great Britain and under names of campaigns, i.e., Italian campaign; North African theater, etc.

British Broadcasting System (BBC), broadcasts in occupied Europe, 264

British Expeditionary Force (B. E. F.): and defense of France, 77, 79, 89, 92; and invasion of Belgium, 96

British Somaliland, 140

Brooke, Sir Alan, 184, 313

Brooke-Popham, Sir Robert, 202, 205, 219

Brownshirts (Italy), 40

Broz, Joseph. See Tito

Brussels, Belgium, 324–325

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 370, 371

Budapest, Hungary, 356

Bulgaria, 142, 143, 144

Burma, 329–332, 372; British offensive in, 256–257; Japanese conquest of, 207–208

Burma Road, 207, 330–331, 332

Caen, France, Battle of, 317–319

Callaghan, D. J., 253, 254

Canadian Army: and Dieppe raid, 224; and drive into Rhine, 357; and invasion of Belgium, 324; and liberation of Holland, 359. See also French invasion

Canton, China, 161

Cape Engano, Battle of, 344

Casablanca: American landing at, 227; Conference, 130, 184–185

Casseurs Ardennes, 96

Cassino, Italy, Battle of, 176–177, 301, 302, 304–306