Short History of World War II - James L. Stokesbury [231]
Nagasaki, Japan, atomic bombing of, 375
Naha, Okinawa, 371
Nanking, China, Japanese occupation of, 46
Napoleon, 55, 263, 286
National Liberation Front, Yugoslavia, 270
National Redoubt, myth of, 360
National Socialist German Workers’ Party, 39–41. See also Hitler, Adolf; Nazi Germany
Nationalists: in China, see China; in Spain, 37
Naval battles: Battle of the Atlantic, 123–130; and convoy system, 125–126; Coral Sea, 213–214; in East Africa, 140; Guadalcanal, see Guadalcanal; Java Sea, 206–207; Leyte Gulf, 342–345; Philippine Sea, 337–339; and submarines vs. battleships, 123–124; and World War I experience, 124–125; and wolf-packs and hunter-killer groups, 129–130. See also Japanese Pacific offensives
Nazi Germany: assessment of French strength by, 93–94; attacks on U. S. shipping, 120, 121–122; attempted coup in, 319–320; “Axis” Pact with Japan, 45; and Battle of Britain, see Battle of Britain; and Blitzkrieg in Poland, 69–76; domestic opposition in, 199; and fall of France, 99–103; after French invasion, 326; invasion of, 324; invasion of Czechoslovakia, 57–63; invasion of Greece, 143–144; invasion of Holland and Belgium, 94–96; invasion of Norway, 84–88; invasion of Soviet Union, see Soviet invasion; invasion of Yugoslavia, 143; last survival struggle of, 349–363; and Mediterranean war, 142; occupation of Austria, 56–57; occupation of Europe by, see Occupied Europe; occupation of the Rhineland, 43; plan for French invasion, 93–94; preparations for war on Poland, 63-66; production capacity after Allied bombings, 279–280; race for atomic bomb, 374; relations with Austria, 55; reliance on disagreements between Allies, 351–353; resistance movement in, 262; Russian advance into, 356; and Spanish Civil War, 37; and Sudeten Germans, 58; surrender of, 363–364; union between Austria and, 56; and Vichy French Government, 226, 228. See also German Army; Hitler, Adolf; Nazi ideology
Nazi ideology: and European reaction to occupation, 261–262; extermination policies, 195–196; impact on Soviet invasion, 156–157; and occupied Europe, 188
Nazi party, of Austria, 55, 56
Nazi Party, Germany: Beer-Hall Putsch, 40; in elections of 1928, 41; in elections of 1930, 41; Hitler’s purge of, 42
Nazi Party, Sudeten, 58
Netherlands. See Holland
Neutrality: of Belgium and the Netherlands, 91; of northern countries, 83–84; of Sweden and Norway, 83–84; of U.S., 115, 116–122
Neutrality Acts (U.S., 1935–37), 52–53, 116–117, 118, 122
New Guinea, battles in, 334, 335
New Zealanders, in North Africa, 222
Night of the long knives. See Great Blood Purge
Nimitz, Chester, 248, 258, 333, 335, 340, 369
Nishimura, Admiral, 342, 343, 344
Nomura, Kichisaburo, 166
Normandy, invasion, 310; Allied commanders of, 313–314; artificial harbors for, 311, 312; and battle of Caen, 317–318; date of, 314; decision on, 184; Dieppe raid and, 224; drive from, 317–319, 320–321; fighting at, 315–316; and French Resistance, 267–268, 270–271; German disagreements over, 312–313; materials and manpower for, 314–315; vs. North African offensive, 223–224; plan for, 245–247, 311–315; postponements of, 310–311; and simultaneous invasion of southern France, 307; Soviet offensive timed with, 243–244
Norsk Hydro Plant, Norway, 268–269
North African theater, 217–231; Allied pursuit of German armies in, 222–223; battle of Alam el Halfa, 220–221; Battle of Kasserine Pass, 230; British bomber bases in, 282; British offensive in, 221–223; Churchill appoints new commanders in, 220; and decision to hold Crete, 145; decision to invade, 185; delayed invasion of, 140–141; German activity in, 142; German defeat in, 230–231; invasion of, 223–231; preparations for British counteroffensive,