282 INDEX
Keise Shima 254
Kellogg-Briand Pact 16
Kennedy, John F. 207
Kenya 74, 75
Kerama Islands 254
Kerch 97, 98–99, 101, 148
Keren 75
Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert
165, 166, 167, 240
Ketzin 242
Kharkov 100, 101, 148, 149,
152, 153
Kiev 88, 90, 91, 98, 179, 181
Kim Il-sung 268
King, Major General Edward
117
Kiyan Peninsula 255
Klin 101
Klopper, General 142
Kohima, Battle of 205, 218
Kokoda Trail 105, 124, 206
Kokura 258, 259
Kolombangara 206
Kone 252
Konev, Marshal Ivan 238, 242,
243
Konoe, Fumimaro 110
Korea 223, 273
Korean War 263, 268, 269
Krasnograd 153
Kriegsmarine
and Arctic convoys 140–141
Battle of the River Plate
42–43
last remnants of 235
sinking of the Bismarck
66–67
Kristallnacht 30–31, 134
Kuribayashi, Tadamichi 250,
251
Kursk 96, 158
Battle of 178–179, 181, 182
Kwajalein Atoll 205, 211
Kyushu 252, 254, 255L
La Rochelle 194
Lae 206
Lagoda, Lake 94
landing craft 208
Langsdorff, Captain Hans
42, 43
Laos 106, 269
Latvia 14, 15, 19, 44, 88, 182
Laurel, José P. 116, 223
Lausanne, Treaty of 14, 80
Laval, Pierre 132
League of Nations 12, 13,
16–17, 28, 29, 271
Lebanon 82Lebensraum 88, 91, 133
Leipzig 234
LeMay, General Curtis 252
Lend-Lease 68, 70–71, 162
Leningrad 88, 90
Siege of 89, 91, 94–95, 101,
181
Leningrad Symphony
(Shostakovich) 274
Leyte Gulf, Battle of 205, 214–215,
216, 249, 251
Liaoning-Shenyang campaign 266,
267
Libya 28, 72, 74, 76, 79, 145
Liège 194
Lingayen Gulf 116, 248, 249
Liri Valley 167
Lithuania 14, 15, 19, 29, 33, 44,
88, 89, 182
“Little Boy” bomb 258
Liverpool 61
Lloyd-George, David 15
Lockheed P-38 Lightning 206,
207
Lofoten Islands 139
London
Baby Blitz 173
the Blitz 59, 60–61, 63, 273
V-weapons 192
VE Day 244–245
Long March 23
Long Range Penetration
groups 218
Louisiade Archipelago 125
Ludwigshafen 172
Luftwaffe
Allied bombing of Germany
172, 173
Arctic convoys 140, 141
Battle of Britain 58–59
the Blitz 61
Dunkirk 53
Eastern Front 150, 151, 179
loses air war 234–235
Lütjens, Admiral Günther 67
Luxembourg 132, 226, 228
German invasion 36, 49
Luzon 112, 116, 205, 248, 249,
251M
Maas, river 201
Macau 112
MacArthur, General Douglas
116, 117, 205, 206, 207,
214, 248, 249, 261
McAuliffe, General Anthony
228
Madagascar 121
Madagascar, Battle of 57Madang 206
Maginot Line 36, 49, 54
Maikop 149
Majdanek 183
Makin Atoll 204, 211
Malaya 107, 109, 110, 112, 113 ,
118, 121, 269
Malta 72, 73, 84, 138
convoys 84
Siege of 86–87
Manchester, William 254
Manchu (Qing) dynasty 22
Manchuria
Chinese Civil War 266, 267
Japanese invasion of 17, 22,
23, 26, 107, 110, 223
Soviet invasion of 246, 247,
260
Mandalay 120, 121, 218, 246
mandate system 17, 223
Manhattan Project 247, 256–257
Manila 112, 113, 116, 117, 248,
249
Mannerheim Line 44, 45
Manstein, Field Marshal
Erich von 152, 178
Mao Zedong 22, 23, 262, 263,
266 , 267
March on Rome 18
Mareth Line 161
Mariana Islands 204, 205, 211,
251, 252, 253
Battle for the Marianas 212–213,
214
Marines 68–69, 128–129, 205,
208–209, 211, 250, 251
Marseilles 195
Marshall Islands 205, 208, 211,
213
Marshall Plan 262, 264, 265
maskirovka 182
Meatgrinder (Hill 382) 251
Mecklenburg 242
Medenine 161
Mediterranean region 72–73
Eastern Mediterranean 82–83
Germany pushes south 80–81
Italian Campaign 164–167
Operation Torch 146–147
war in the Mediterranean
84–85
see also Greece; Italy;
North Africa
Medjez el Bab 147, 160
Memel 29
Merrill, General Frank 218
Mersa Matruh 143
Messe, General Giovanni
160
Messina 164
Metaxas, General Ioannis 19,
79Metaxas Line 80
Metz 195, 200
Meuse, river 228, 229
Middle East 57, 72, 73, 82 , 263
Midway Atoll 110, 124
Midway, Battle of 126–127
Mihailović, Colonel Draža 203
Milan 240
military casualties 272, 273
Milne Bay 124, 125
Mindanao 116, 117
Mindoro, Battle of 248
Minsk 91, 98, 183
Mitsuri, Lieutenant General
Ushijima 254
Mogadishu 75
Molotov, Vyacheslav 33, 38
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
see Nazi-Soviet
Nonaggression Pact
Monastir 80, 81
Mongolia 106
Monte Cassino 166, 167
Montevideo 43
Montgomery, Field Marshal
Bernard 131, 143, 164, 191,
195, 198, 199, 232
Second Battle of El Alamein
144–145
victory in the Desert 161
Morocco
Operation Torch 146–147, 161
Spanish Civil War 24, 25
Moscow
German advance on 88, 89,
91, 96–97
relief of 100–101
Moscow Peace Treaty (1940)
45
Moscow Summit (1941) 162
Moselle, river 195, 200
Motobu Peninsula 254
Mount Suribachi 250
Moyale 74
Mulberry harbors 187
Munich 233
Munich Agreement 29, 32,
33
Murmansk 140, 141
Mussolini, Benito
declares war 72, 86
deposed 158, 164
execution of 227, 241
and Greece 79
imperial ambitions 13, 74,
84
and propaganda 177
Republic of Salò 240
rise to power 12, 18, 19,
28
Rome-Berlin Axis 32
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