Short History of World War II - James L. Stokesbury [226]
Demobilization, 380–381
Dempsey, Miles C., 321, 324, 357
Denmark: German occupation of, 84, 85; underground, 273
Depression: and French military preparedness, 25; and Hitler’s rise to power, 41; impact on Austria, 55–56; and Mussolini’s rise to power, 35; and U. S. foreign policy, 52; war industry and, 122
Desert Fox. See Rommel, Erwin
Devers, Jacob, 324, 351, 358
Dieppe raid, 224
Dietrich, Sepp, 353, 354
Diplomacy: and Chamberlain-Hitler meetings, 59–62; and Locarno system, 16–17; post-World War I, 16–17; U.S.-Japanese, 165–167. See also Allied conferences
Dirlewanger Brigade, 272–273
Disarmament, post-World War I, 18–19
“Displaced Person” camps, 381
Dnieper Line, 243
Doenitz, Karl, 362–363
Dollfuss, Englebert, 56
Doolittle, James, 214
Doorman, K. W. F. M., 204–205
Dowding, Sir Hugh, 109
Draft, in U.S., 119. See also Military conscription
Dresden, Germany, bombing of, 286
Dual Monarchy, Empire of Austria and Kingdom of Hungary, 55
Dunkirk, 97, 98–100
Dutch East Indies, 163–164, 200
Dutch resistance, 265. See also Holland
“Dyle Line,” 92
Eaker, Ira C., 280
East African campaigns, 140, 146
East Indies, 204–207
Eastern Europe, 262. See also under individual names of countries of
Egypt, 140. See also Mediterranean war
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 298, 324, 326; and Battle of the Bulge, 354; as commander of French North African campaign, 224; Darlan and, 228–229; and decision on Berlin invasion, 360; and drive into Rhine, 357–359; and invasion of Sicily, 293; and invasion of southern France, 323–324; and Normandy invasion, 314; and planned drive into Germany, 350–351; as Supreme Commander of Mediterranean theater, 185
Elbe, crossing of, 361
English Channel, 31; and defense of England, 105–107; and Dunkirk evacuation, 97, 98–99; and Normandy invasion, 311. See also Battle of Britain
Enterprise (U. S. aircraft carrier), 215, 216, 253
Estienne, Jean, 27
Estonia, 79
Ethiopia, Italian invasion of, 35–36
Europe. See European democracies; European front; Occupied Europe; and under individual countries of
European democracies: interwar collapse of, 33–46; and prevention of World War II, 21–32
European front: Allied drive into Rhineland, 357–359; Battle of the Bulge, 352–355; collapse of Mussolini’s Salo Republic, 359–360; Eisenhower’s strategy for, 350–351; German collapse, 349–363; Soviet advances on, 349, 355–356, 361–363
Evacuation: at Guadalcanal, 255; at Sicily, 294. See also Dunkirk
Falkenhorst, Nikolaus von, 84, 157
Far East: Japanese in, 115; U. S. defenses in, 166; U.S. pre-World War II attitude toward, 52
Fascist Grand Council, Italy, fall of Mussolini and, 295
Fascists, takeover in Italy, 34–36
Fegen, Fogarty, 133
Filipino troops, in Battle of Bataan, 210–212
Finland, 118
Finnish Civic Guards. See Russo-Finnish War
Finnish soldiers, and German invasion of Soviet Union, 157
Fire bombing, 278, 285
Fiume, 35
Fletcher, F. J., 250, 251, 253
Flying Fortresses, 268, 281
Flying Tigers, 256
Formosa, 200, 208–209
“Fortress Holland,” 92, 95
Four Freedoms, 119, 121
France: and air war, 275; and Allied war aims, 183; and Anglo-German Naval Agreement, 30; army mutiny of 1917 in, 22; and Battle of the Atlantic, 128, 135; casualties in, 379; declaration of war against Germany, 15, 66; and disarmament proposals, 20; fall of, 99–103, 118, 153, 163; and German blitzkrieg in Poland, 73, 75–76; German occupation of, 43, 56–57, 58–62, 261–262; Indochina and, 385; interwar military forces of, 28–29; interwar relations with Great Britain, 29–32; and Italian takeover of Ethiopia, 36; Kellogg-Briand pact with U. S., 17; military policies after World War I, 23–29; planned defense of, 77, 79, 89, 91–94; post-World War I policies, 16–18, 22–23; post-World War II conditions in, 22–29; pro-German collaborators in, 263; and Soviet-Nazi nonaggression pact, 65–66; surrender of, 101–104. See also French Army; French invasion; Free French; French Resistance; Mediterranean war; Normandy invasion; Western