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siege of 194
Dutch East Indies 105, 106, 107,
109, 110, 112, 113, 268, 269E
Eagle Attacks 58
EAM 176, 203
East Africa 28, 72, 75
East Germany 262, 263
East Prussia 182, 183
Eastern Dorsale 161
Eastern Front 90–91, 94–101, 130,
131, 148–153, 158, 159, 178–183,
238–239, 272, 273
see also Soviet Union
Éboué, Feliz 57
Ebro, Battle of the 24, 25
economic recovery, post-war 263
Eden, Anthony 62
Egypt
Italian offensives 72, 74, 79,
84, 85
Western Desert 76–77, 130,
142–145, 146
Eindhoven 198, 199
Einsatzgruppen 98–99
Eisenhower, General Dwight D.
139, 147, 159, 186, 195, 232,
233, 243, 244
El Adem 142
El Agheila 76, 77, 142, 145
El Alamein
First Battle of 143
Second Battle of 130, 131,
144–145, 146, 147, 161, 170
El Hamma 161
ELAS 203
Elbe, river 226, 232, 233, 238, 242
Emergency, Malayan 269
emigration 272
Empress Augusta Bay, Battle of 207
English Channel 49, 186–187
Enigma machines 65, 170
Enola Gay 258
Eritrea 74, 75
espionage 139
Esteva, Admiral Jean 161
Estonia 14, 19, 44, 88
Ethiopia 57, 123
Italian invasion of 13, 28
Italians expelled from 74, 75
Europe
1939–1941 36–41, 44–55, 58–63,
78–87
1942 130–131, 130–139
1943-1944 158–159, 164–167,
172–177, 182–203
1944-1945 226–245
countdown to war 32–33
dictatorships 18–21expansionism in 28–29
inter-war 12–13
Iron Curtain 264–265
legacy of World War I 14–15
new order in 132–133
post-war 160–161
price of war 272, 273
VE Day 244–245
European Coal and Steel
Community 263
evacuations
of civilians 36, 41, 92
of Soviet industrial areas 97
HMS Exeter 42, 43
SS Exodus 271
extermination camps 130, 131,
134, 135, 136, 183, 226–227F
Falaise Pocket 191, 194
Falange 24
Fascism 12, 18–19, 24, 28,
29, 79
“Fat Man” bomb 259
Feodosiya 101
Ferrara 241
Final Solution 130, 134
Finland
nationalism 18
Operation Barbarossa 90, 91,
94
post World War I 14, 15
Soviet invasion 17, 36, 44–45,
89
Finschhafen 206
Florence 167, 240
Flying Tigers 106
forced labor 39, 92, 133, 135,
204, 223
Fort Capuzzo 74
Fort Eben Emael 49
France
African colonies 56–57
Allied advance on Germany
200, 201
Allied Breakout from Normandy
194–195
Battle of Normandy
190–191
Battle of 49
colonial rule 262, 263, 268, 269
D-Day Landings 186–187
division of 55
fall of France 37, 54–55
German invasion/occupation
36, 41, 51, 53, 54, 132
legacy of World War I 14, 15
liberation of 195, 200
outbreak of war 36
see also Free French; Vichy FranceFranco, General Francisco 18,
19, 24–25, 263
Franco-German Armistice
(1940) 54
Free French 56, 57, 73, 77, 82,
147, 161, 177
French Army 200
French Equatorial Africa 56
French Expeditionary Corps 166,
167
French Indochina 104, 106, 107,
109, 222
French Navy 56, 57, 147
French Resistance 54, 177, 195
French Somaliland 57
fuel shortages, German 234, 235G
Gabon 56
Gaeta 167
Gallabat 75
Gandhi, Mahatma 123 , 269
Gazala, Battle of 142, 143
Gazala Line 142–143
Geneva Convention 154
Genoa 240
George Cross 86
German Navy see Kriegsmarine
Germany
advance to Stalingrad 148–149
Allied advance on 194–195,
198–199, 200–201, 242–243
Allied bombing 158, 159, 172–173,
226, 272, 273
Allied occupation 227
Allies cross Rhine 232–233
Arctic convoys 140–141
in the Atlantic 42–43, 66–67
Battle of the Bulge 228–229
Battle of Normandy 190–191
casualties 179, 182, 229,
272, 273
civilian casualties 92, 159, 173,
234, 235, 236
D-Day 188–189
declares war on US 104–105, 111
defeat 226–227
defiance 1943–1944 158–159
expansionism 28–29, 32, 91
Fall of Berlin 242–243
first phase 1939-1941 36–37
and Greece 79, 203
Holocaust 130, 134–135
home front 92 , 226
invasion of Poland 38–39
invasion of the Soviet Union
88–91, 94–99, 100–101, 130,
131, 148–153, 178–183
Italian 164–167, 240–241
Kristallnacht 30–31, 134legacy of World War I 14–15
loses air war 234–235
in the Mediterranean 72–73,
80–87, 164–167
in the Middle East 82–83
in North Africa 72–77, 130–131,
142–147, 160–161
occupied territories 132–133
offensive in the West 48–49
phony war 41
plot to kill Hitler 196–197
post-war 263
post-war occupation zones
230, 262, 264, 265
POWs 154
resistance movements 176–177
rise of Nazi Party 12–13, 18,
19, 20–21
Soviet advance on 238
Stalingrad 150–153
unconditional surrender 227,
244, 246
V-weapons 192–193
war industry 174–175
Warsaw Uprising 184–185
and Yugoslavia 202, 203
Giap, General Vi Nguyen 268
Gibraltar 57, 72, 84
Gideon Force 75
Gilbert Islands 113, 204, 208,
211, 213
Goebbels, Joseph 20 , 21, 177,
197, 243
Gold Beach 186, 187
Gorbachev, Michail 265
Göring, Hermann 59, 196
Gothic Line 166, 167, 240
Goubellat 160
Graf Spee 42, 43
Great Depression 12, 19
Great Wall of China 220
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere 106, 107, 223
Greece 84, 161, 202–203, 227
Civil War 203, 264, 265
diversion of Allied troops
from Africa to 76
Greco-Italian War 78–79
Italian and German invasions/
occupation 72, 73, 80–81,
132, 203
Metaxas dictatorship 19, 79
partisans 159, 176, 177
Grynszpan, Herschel 31
Guadalcanal 105, 125, 128–129,
204, 206, 208
Guam 112, 113, 205
Battle for 212, 213
Gubbins, Sir Colin 139
Guderian, General Heinz 100
Guernica 24, 25
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