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Ito, Selichi, 371
Iwo Jima, Battle of, 336, 367–369
Japan: aggressor role of, 44–46, 167; after German surrender, 364–376; Allied ultimatum to, 374; atomic bombing of, 375–376; bombing of, 364, 366, 372–373; collapse of, 372–376; decision to bomb Pearl Harbor, 165–167; effects of World War II on, 378; interwar period in, 44–45; invasion of China by, 45–46, 52, 57, 161–165; invasion of Manchuria, 45; and Marine landing at Guadalcanal, 250–251; occupation of French Indochina by, 166; pact with Germany and Italy, 164–165; planned Allied invasion of, 372–374; postwar plan for, 382–383; relations with U. S. prior to Pearl Harbor, 161–171; and Russo-German Nonaggression Pact, 150, 152, 163; in Showa period, 44–46; surrender of, 375–376; treaty with Soviet Union, 153; U. S. attitude toward expansionism of, 165–167; and Washington Conference, 19
Japanese ideology: and suicide, 337, see also Kamikaze; on surrender, 211, 213, 337
Japanese Navy: at Battle of Leyte Gulf, 342–345, 346; at Battle of Midway, 214–215; and Southeast Asia, 163–164; suicide attack on Okinawa, 371
Japanese Pacific offensives, 200–216; American reaction to, 212–213; and Battle of Coral Sea, 213–214; and Battle of the Java Sea, 206–207; and Battle of Midway, 214–216; and British surrender of Hong Kong, 201; and Burma, 207–208; and East Indies, 204–207; and fall of Malaya and Singapore, 201–204; and Philippine Islands, 208–212; plan for, 200–201; purpose of, 200–201
Java, 205–206
Java Sea, Battle of, 206–207
Jet fighters, first, 282, 351
Jews: in Czechoslovakia, 63; in Denmark, 273; Nazi extermination of, 39, 42, 197–199; in Nazi-occupied Austria, 56; in Poland, 195; resistance to extermination of, 264; Warsaw ghetto uprising of, 272
July Plot, 319–320
Jungle fighting, 203–204
Kamikaze, 345, 346, 364, 368, 370, 371–372
Kaminski, Brigade, 272
Kanalkampf, 108–110
Kant, Immanuel, 388
Kapp Putsch, 39
Karelian Isthmus, Finland, 80, 82
Kasserine Pass, Battle of, 230
Katyn Forest, Poland, mass graves in, 196
Keitel, Wilhelm, 44
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 17
Kennan, George F., 116, 386–387
Kennedy, Joseph P., 104, 113
Kesselring, Albert (“Smiling Albert”), 221, 292, 294, 298–299, 302, 306, 308–309, 350, 358
Kharkov, Soviet Union, 235–236
Kiev, Soviet Union, 152, 157
Kincaid, Thomas C., 253, 342, 343, 344, 345
King, Ernest J., 249
Kiska Island, battle of, 257
Kleist-Schmenzin, Ewald von, 61
Kluge, Hans von, 318, 320, 322
Koga, Mineichi, 335, 337
Koiso, Kuinaki, 367
Kokoda, Australian offensive in, 255
Konev, Ivan, 355
Konoye (Emperor of Japan), 166
Kordt, Dr. Erich, 61
Krueger, Walter, 342–345, 347
Kuribayashi, Tadamichi, 367
Kurita, Takeo, 342, 343, 344
Kursk, Soviet Union, tank battle at, 242–243
Kwajalein Lagoon, Marshall Islands, 335–336
Ladoga, Lake, Finland, 80, 81
Landing Ship Tank (LST), 303
Langsdorf, Hans, 132–133
Lattre de Tassigny, Jean de, 323, 346, 356, 359
Latvia, 79
Laval, Pierre, 226
League of Nations: and disarmament proposal of 1932, 20; German admission to, 16; and German occupation of Rhineland, 43; Germany leaves, 42; and Italian invasion of Ethiopia, 35–36; and Italian occupation of Corfu, 35; Italian withdrawal from, 37; and Japanese aggression, 44, 45; and Locarno conference, 16–17; Soviet Union and, 49
Leclerc, Charles, 322, 323
Leeb, Ritter von, 100, 152, 157
Leigh-Mallory, Sir Trafford, 313
LeMay, Curtis, 373
Lend-Lease Act (1941), 118, 119–120, 122
Lenin, 48
Leningrad, Soviet Union, battles at, 79, 152, 158, 241, 243
Leyte Gulf, Philippines, Battle of, 342–345
Leyte Island, Philippines, Battle of, 345–347
Libya, 36, 140
Liddell Hart, B. H., 27–28
Lidice, Czechoslovakia, massacre of, 265
Liebknecht, Karl,