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Franco, 37
Franco-Prussian War, 24
Frantisek, Josef, 111
Fredendall, Lloyd, 227
Frederick the Great, 352
Free French: at Bir Hacheim, 218–219; and French campaign, 322, 323; and Italian campaign, 305; in Syria, 146
French Army: Czech units in, 63; and German invasion, 99–103; and German invasion of Poland, 71; in 1938, 60; organization of, 91; Soviet opinion of, 153
French Forces of the Interior (FFI), 270
French invasion, 321–326; Italian invasion and, 296–297. See also Normandy invasion
French Navy: after fall of France, 104; interwar, 28; scuttled at Toulon, 228
French North Africa, 139
French Resistance: 267–268, 270–271, 312
Freyberg, Bernard, 177
Fritsch, Werner von, 43–44
Fuller, J.F.C., 27–28
Gamelin, Maurice, 91, 96
Gandhi, Mohandas, 301, 385
Gazala-Bir Hacheim Line, 218
“Gembloux Gap,” Belgium, 92, 95
Georges, Alphonse, 91
German Army (World War II): and assassinations by Resistance, 265; and execution of anti-Hitler officers, 319–320; General staff coup attempt in, 61; invasion of Poland by, 69–76; in Italy, 292, see also Italian campaign; in 1938, 60–61; and Normandy invasion, see Normandy invasion; and purge of officers corps, 43–44; on Russian Front, see Russian front, Soviet invasion; Russians recruited into, 197; toll of war on, 233–234
German High Seas Fleet, 124. See also German Navy
German Navy: and Battle of Britain, 106–107; battleships vs. submarines, 123–124; and invasion of Norway, 86, 88, 107; and invasion of Poland, 71
Germany: collapse of democracy in, 37–41; defaults on war reparations, 52; democracy in, 37; disarmament after World War I, 18–19; effects of World War II, 378; interwar French and British attitudes toward, 29–32; and peace treaties after World War I, 15–19; postwar plans for, 381–382, 384; postwar relations with USSR, 18; and Treaty of Rapallo, 49; and Triple Alliance, 33; Versailles Treaty and, 39. See also Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
Ghormley, R. L., 250, 253
Gibson, Violet, 35
Gilbert Islands, 200, 201, 258–260
Giraud, Henri, 92, 184, 228, 229
Glassford, William, 205
Goebbels, Josef, 190, 360
Goering, Hermann, 40, 111, 144, 189–190, 198, 240, 280, 362
Gort, Lord John, 89, 96
Gothic Line, 308
Graziani, Jean, 140
Great Blood Purge, 42
Great Britain: and attempted coup against Hitler, 61; casualties of, 379; colonial problems of, 384–385; and Crete, 145–146; declaration of war against Germany, 15; and defense of Norway, 86–87; and Dunkirk evacuation, 97, 98–99; East African theater and, 146; and fall of France, 108; and German blitzkrieg in Poland, 73, 75–76; and German occupation of Austria, 56–57; and German occupation of Czechoslovakia, 58–62; and German occupation of Rhineland, 43; Greece and, 143–144; interwar air force, 31–32; interwar domestic and foreign policy, 29–31, 54; interwar military policy, 30–32; interwar relations with France, 29–32; and Italian takeover of Ethiopia, 36; and Japanese Pacific offensive, see Japanese Pacific offensive; Mediterranean strategy of, 137, 139; naval blockade of Germany, 83–84; and Norsk Hydro Plant in Norway, 268–269; offensive in Burma, 256–257; and planned defense of France, 77, 79; possibility of invasion of, 31; post-World War I, 22; Resistance in Europe and, 266–267; and Singapore, 202; and Soviet-Nazi nonaggression pact, 65–66; supremacy at sea of, 124; U.S. aid to, 119–120; war aims of, 176–178; war contribution of, 177–178; and Washington Conference, 19; and Western Desert battles, 147–149; and Yugoslavian Resistance, 263. See also Battle of Britain; North African theater; Western Allies
Greece: battles in, delay of North African campaign and, 141, 147, 217; German invasion of, 143–144; Italian invasion of, 142; and Italian occupation of Corfu, 35
Greenland, U. S. takeover of, 120
Guadalcanal, 214; battle of, 251–255; effect of victory at, 260
Guam, 200, 201, 337, 338, 340
Guderian, Heinz, 27, 94, 96, 100–101, 233
Gustav Line, 301, 302–306
Guzzoni, Alfred, 293, 294
Gypsies, 195, 198
Haakon VII (king of Norway), 87
Hacha, Emil, 63
Halder, Franz, 61, 237
Halifax, Lord,