Short History of World War II - James L. Stokesbury [234]
Ryder, Charles, 226
Rzhev, Soviet Union, Russian offensive at, 241
SA, 190
Saipan, Marine landing on, 336–337
Salo Republic, 308, 359–360
Salonika, Greece, German occupation of, 144
Sarawak, 205
Sardinia, proposed landing at, 246
Scandinavian countries. See Finland; Norway; Sweden
Scharnhorst (German battleship), 133, 135–136
Schleicher, Kurt von, 41, 42
Schlieffen Plan, 26, 92, 94
Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 56
Schutzstaffel. See SS
Schweinfurt, Germany, bombing of, 283
“Scorched earth” policy, 196
Second Front. See Normandy invasion
Seeckt, Hans von, 39
Seine, crossing of, 322
Selassie, Haile, 36
Selective Training and Service Act (1940), 119, 120
Senger und Etterlin, General von, 261
Sevastopol, Soviet Union, German invasion of, 236
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 56
Shanghai, China, Japanese invasion of, 45, 46
Shima, Kiyohida, 343, 344
Shuri Line, 370–371
Sicily, invasion of, 246–249, 292–295
Sidi Barrani, Egypt, 140
Simpson, William, 353
Singapore: historical background, 202; surrender of, 201–204
Sino-Japanese War (1894–95), 44
Skorzeny, Otto, 353–354
Slavs, Nazi persecution of, 195–197
Slim, William, 329–330, 331, 332
“Slot, the” (Solomon Island channel), 251, 252, 255
Slovakia, separatist movement in, 62–63
Smigly-Rydz, Edward, 72
Smith, Holland, 336
Smolensk, Soviet Union, 152
Snorkel breathing tube, submarine warfare and, 131
Sobibor (concentration camp), 198
Solomons, 213–214. See also Guadalcanal
South Africa, interwar riots in, 30
Southeast Asia: Japanese invasion of, 247; Japanese shipping and, 163–164; post-World War II, 385. See also Japanese Pacific offensives
Southern Resources Area of Pacific, 200–201
Soviet front. See Russian front
Soviet invasion, 154–160; advances by Germans, 154–155, 157–158; and British aid to Russians, 159–160; collapse of, 160; decision on, 150, 152; German plan for, 152–153; impact on North African theater, 217; military strengths
Soviet invasion (cont.) at, 153–154; Nazi and Communist propaganda during, 156–157; slowdown of, 159–160; Soviet knowledge of, 153–154. See also Red Army; Russian front
Soviet Union: attitude of Axis powers toward, 47; casualties, 379–380; and dissolution of Comintern, 382; and expected German attack on Poland, 64–66; and German disarmament after World War I, 20; German invasion of, see Russian front; Soviet invasion; guerrilla operations in, 267; Hitler’s assessment of, 47–50; interwar foreign relations of, 49; invasion of Poland by, 75; mutual-assistance pact with Czechoslovakia, 58; mutual defense pacts with former Baltic provinces, 79; Nazi occupied areas of, 196–197; neutrality of, 153; persecution of Poles by, 196; planned invasion of Japan, 373–374; postwar demands of, 382–384, 387–388; post-World War I relations with Germany, 18; prior to German invasion, 115–116; relations with Japan, 115–116; role in World War II, 182; and Spanish Civil War, 26–27; treaty with Japan, 153; Treaty of Rapallo with Germany, 49; under Stalin, 48–49; U. S. Lend-Lease credit to, 122; war aims of, 181–183; western assessment of, 49–50. See also Red Army; Russian front; Russo-Finnish War; Russo-German Nonaggression Pact; Soviet front; Soviet invasion
Spain: collapse of democracy in, 36–37; Franco’s declared neutrality of, 246
Spanish Civil War, 36–37, 49, 56–57
Spanish Morocco, coup in, 36
Spanish soldiers, fighting in Russia, 235
Sparticists (Germany), 38–39
Spears, General, 101
Special Operations Executive (SOE), 266–267, 268
Speer, Albert, 234, 279–280
Sprague, Clifton, 344–345
Spruance, Raymond, 337–338
SS, 190–191, 272–273
Stalin, Joseph: on China in world organization, 186; compared with Churchill, 178; internal regime of, 48–49; and invasion of southern France, 307; and Polish Resistance, 272–273; pressures for Second Front, 310; promises Russian offensive, 243–244; and propaganda during Nazi invasion, 157; proposals for postwar settlements, 382; purges of, 49, 82; Roosevelt and, 181; and Russo-Finnish War, see Russo-Finnish War; war aims of, 182–183. See also Allied conferences; Allies; Big Three; Big Four