Midway, Battle of, 94, 186–189

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 65, 255

Montgomery, Bernard, 95, 103, 107, 109, 112, 117, 120, 133

Munich Conference, 58, 82

Murrow, Edward R., 86

Mussolini, Benito, 43–47, 57, 59, 122, 123

Nagasaki, 215

Nagumo, Chuichi, 171, 173, 186–189, 193

Nanjing, rape of, 162–164

National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party, 49, 55

New Deal, 81

Nihongi, , 151

Nimitz, Chester W., 183–187, 193, 195, 196, 202

Nixon, Richard, 261

Normandy, Battle of, 125–137

Okinawa, Battle of, 212–215

Pact of Steel, 60

Page, Walter H., 10, 14, 19

Papen, Franz von, 54

Paris Peace Conference, 27, 28, 60, 259

Patton, George, 96, 97, 111, 114, 120, 121, 137, 141

Paulus, Friedrich, 106, 107

Pearl Harbor, 93, 151, 170–175, 183, 186, 189

Percival, Arthur, 178

Pershing, John, 18

Petain, Henri-Philipe, 62, 100

Pohl, Hugo von, 12

poison gas, 7, 46

Port Moresby, 184, 185, 200, 201

Pyle, Ernie, 113, 116, 126

Rabaul, 184, 191, 197, 199, 201, 202

Red Cross, 17

Roehm, Ernst, 55

Rommel, Erwin, 94, 95, 100, 102–115, 133, 134, 136, 137

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 80, 197

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 55, 59, 65, 68, 78–83, 85, 86, 88, 89, 91, 95, 101, 105, 126, 127, 132, 139, 166, 172, 174, 194, 224, 254, 257

Roosevelt, Teddy, 2, 8, 20, 35, 98

Root, Elihu, 11, 250

Runstedt, Karl von, 134, 139

Sarajevo, Bosnia, 5

Selassie, Hailie, 46

Self-determination, 139, 249, 251

Shirer, William, 77

Siam-Burma Railroad, 182

Simonds, Frank, 11, 17

St. Mihiel, Battle of, 24, 111, 217

Stalin, Josef, 55, 66–68, 105, 106, 126, 139, 141, 214, 257

Stalingrad, Battle of, 105, 106, 117, 118, 139, 140

Stark, Alexander, 88, 98

Stettinius, Edward, 257

Stimson, Henry, 42, 86, 88, 91, 230, 234, 239

Stone, William, 13

Suez Canal, 94

Suzuki, Kantaro, 213, 214, 238

Taft, William Howard, 2, 8, 20

Tarawa, Battle of, 202–205

Teheran Conference, 126–127