Short History of World War II - James L. Stokesbury [228]
Halsey, William F., 253, 258, 343, 344, 345
Hamburg, Germany, destruction of, 284–286
Hankow, China, 161–162
Hapsburg Empire, 55, 57
Harris, Arthur (“Bomber”), 32, 277–279, 286
Heavy water. See Norsk Hydro Plant
Helfich, Conrad, 206–207
Helsinki, Finland, air attacks on, 80
Henlein, Konrad, 58
Heydrich, Reinhard, 198, 265
Himmler, Heinrich, 190–191, 198, 265
Hindenburg, Paul von, 38, 40, 42, 242
Hirohito (Emperor of Japan), 44–45
Hiroshima, atomic bombing of, 375
Hitler, Adolf, 21; nd Allied advance toward Germany, 358; and Allied invasion of France, 322; annexation of Austria by, 44; assessment of Great Britain and France by, 47; assessment of U.S. by, 50–53; attempted coups against, 61, 319–320; attitude toward Italians, 292; attitude toward U.S., 116; background, 39–40; and Battle of the Bulge, 352–355; and Battle of Stalingrad, 240; British attitude toward, 30–31; as cause of World War II, 54; and Chamberlain, 59–62; as commander in chief, 235; and Crete, 144; and defense of France, 318; and delayed invasion of France, 77; dismisses generals, 232–233, 237; and Dunkirk evacuation, 98–99; on duration of Third Reich, 260; at fall of France, 103; and French and British declarations of war, 66; and German rearmament, 18; Great Blood Purge of, 42; and Italian campaign, 299; jailed, 40; in last days of war, 349, 351–353; and Luftwaffe, 107; meeting with Molotov, 150; ministers of, 189–191; and Munich meeting, 61, 62; Nazi Revolution of, 41–44; and North African strategy, 219; oath of, 42; offensive at Alsace-Lorraine, 356–357; orders destruction of Paris, 322; pact with Stalin, see Russo-Nazi Nonaggression Pact; peace offers, 89, 93; purge of officers corps, 43–44; relations with Mussolini, 35; and Rommel, 222; and Roosevelt’s death, 361; and Soviet front, see Russian front; and Soviet pacts with former Baltic provinces, 79; strategy for defense of France, 313; suicide of, 362; takes power in Germany, 39–41; and Versailles agreement, 30; and von Rundstedt, 312
Hitler Line, 306
Ho Chi Minh, 385
Hodges, Courtney, 321, 324, 353, 357–358
Hoeppner, Ernst von, 233
Holland: and defense of France, 91–94; and Indonesian nationalists, 385; invasion of, 94–95; liberation of, 359
Hollandia, New Guinea, 334
Homma, Masaharu, 210, 211–212
Hong Kong, surrender of, 201
Hopkins, Harry, 184
Hornet (U. S. aircraft carrier), 215, 216, 253
Hoth, General, 242
Hube, General, 294
Hungarian armies, battle of Stalingrad and, 238
Hungary, 61, 349
Huntziger, Charles, 92, 96
Hurricane (aircraft), 107, 109, 128
Iberian Peninsula, 246
Iceland, U. S. troops in, 120
Imperial Navy. See Japanese Navy
Imphal, Burma, Battle of, 331–332
Incendiary bombs, 285, 373
India, British rule of, 30, 385
Indochina, 164, 165, 166, 385
Indonesia, 385
Intelligence operations, Allied: British breaking of German coding system, 114; and German invasion of Soviet Union, 153; and German strength prior to invasion of Poland, 76
Intelligence operations, German: prior to invasion of Poland, 76; and Stalingrad, 239
Inventions: and bombing campaigns, 276–277, 281; drop-tank, 283–284; of Nazis, 351
Iraq, British occupation of, 146
Ireland, 30
Irish Free State, and Battle of the Atlantic, 125
Iron ore, Swedish, 83–84, 88
Ironbottom Sound, 253, 254
Isonzo River, Yugoslavia, World War I battles of, 33
Italian Air Force, 246–247
Italian Army: in East Africa, 140–141, 146; invasion of Ethiopia, 35–36; invasion of Greece, 142; occupation of Europe, 188; on Russian Front, 292; surrender of, 360; and war in Mediterranean, 138–142; in World War I, 33. See also Italian campaign; North African theater
Italian campaign, 287–309; Anzio and Cassino, 301–306; compared with World War I battles, 299; and Gustav Line, 301–306; May offensive, 305–306, 307; and Northern Italy, 307–308; results of, 308–309
Italian Navy: in Eastern Mediterranean, 141; and Taranto, 140
Italian partisans, 273, 359–360
Italy: after World War I, 21–22; bombing of, 282; defection from Axis, 249; effects of World War II, 378; and fall of France, 102–103; fall of Mussolini,