INDEX 283
N
Nagano, Admiral Osami 109
Nagasaki 246, 247, 254, 256,
258–259, 260, 263, 273
Nagoya 252
Naha 255
Nancy 200
Nanjing 23, 26, 266, 267
massacre at 26
Naples 165
Narvik 46, 47
Nassau Bay 206
National Front (Nationalists)
(Spain) 24–25
Nationalism 12, 18
Nationalists (China) 220–221,
266–227
NATO 262, 263, 264, 265
Nazi party
and the Jews 134, 135, 272,
273
Nazi camps 136
rise of 12–13, 18, 19, 20–21
and Spanish Civil War 24
treatment of occupied
territories 133
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression
Pact 13, 32–33, 38, 39, 44, 91
Nehru, Jawaharlal 269
Neisse, river 243
Neretva River, Battle of the 176
Netherlands
Allied invasion of Germany
through 195
colonial rule 263, 268, 269
German invasion/occupation
36, 49, 51
Hunger Winter 176, 232
liberation of 200, 201
Operation Market Garden
186–187
see also Dutch East Indies
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Treaty of 15
neutrality 32, 47, 68
New Britain 206, 207
New Georgia 206
New Guinea 105, 124–125, 205,
206–207, 208–209, 246
New Ireland 207
New Zealand, forces from 77,
143, 161, 206, 207
Nijmegen 198, 199
Nimitz, Admiral Chester 127,
205, 211
NKVD 39
Normandy
Allied breakout from 194–195,
200
Battle of 158, 159, 162, 190–191
D-Day Landings 186–187
North Africa 72–73, 123, 1651942 130–131
Italy’s campaigns in 74–75
Operation Torch 146–147
Rommel enters the Desert War
76–77
Rommel’s final advance 142–143
Second Battle of El Alamein
144–145
victory in the desert 160–161
North Korea 268
North Vietnam 269
Northern Cape, Battle of the 141
Northern Expedition 22
Norway
Arctic convoys 140
German invasion/occupation
36, 41, 46–47, 51, 132, 133
resistance 176
SOE activities 139
Novaya Zemlya 141
nuclear weapons 246, 247,
256–259, 262–263
Nuremberg 172, 233
rallies 20–21, 174
trials 174, 262O
Oder, river 238, 242, 243
Odessa 180, 181
oil 70, 72, 83, 90, 109, 149
Okinawa, Battle of 208, 246,
247, 253, 254–255
Omaha Beach 186, 187,
188–189
Oosterbeek 199
Operation Ariel 55
Operation Bagration 181,
182–183
Operation Barbarossa 51, 88,
89, 90–91, 97, 98
Operation Battleaxe 77
Operation Blissful 207
Operation Blue 148, 149, 152
Operation Bodenplatte 235
Operation Brevity 77
Operation Capri 161
Operation Cartwheel 206–207,
211
Operation Chariot 139
Operation Citadel 178
Operation Cleanslate 207
Operation Cobra 191
Operation Colossus 138
Operation Compass 74
Operation Crossbow 193,
235
Operation Crusader 77
Operation Diver 193
Operation Dragoon 166,
195Operation Drumbeat 168, 169
Operation Dynamo 52, 53
Operation Floating
Chrysanthemum 216
Operation Frankton 139
Operation Goodtime 207
Operation Goodwood 191
Operation Gunnerside 139
Operation Hydra 193
Operation Iceberg 254
Operation Ichigo 221
Operation Independence 201
Operation Iskra 94
Operation Ketsu 246
Operation Koltso 153
Operation Lightfoot 144
Operation Lila 147
Operation Manna 203
Operation Market Garden
159, 198–199, 200
Operation Meetinghouse 252,
253
Operation Neptune see D-Day
Landings
Operation Pedestal 86
Operation Pointblank 173
Operation Pugilist 161
Operation Ratweek 202
Operation Rheinübung 67
Operation Rösselsprung 141,
202
Operation Sea Lion 58, 59
Operation Shingle 166
Operation Spring Wind 160
Operation Starvation 253
Operation Steinbock 173
Operation Stream Line Jane 57
Operation Supercharge 144,
145
Operation Tannenburg 39
Operation Thunderclap 236
Operation Toenails 207
Operation Torch 130, 131, 140,
146–147, 161
Operation Typhoon 97
Operation Uranus 152
Operation Victor 249
Operation Weserübung 47
Operation Winter Storm 152
Oppenheim 232
Oran 146
Oran, Battle of 56, 57
Orlovka Salient 151
Orsha 183
Orwell, George 265
Osaka 246, 252
Osnabrück 233
Ostend 194
Ostland 133
Ottoman Empire 14, 15,
17, 19
Ozawa, Admiral Jisaburo
212, 213P
P-51 Mustang 234
Pacific War 104–105, 204–205
Battle of Okinawa 254–255
Battle of Leyte Gulf 214–215
Battle for the Marianas
212–213
Battle of Okinawa 254–255
bombing of Japan 252–253
Guadalcanal 128–129
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
258–259
island-hopping 210–211
Iwo Jima 250–251
Japan invades the Philippines
116–117
Japanese advances 112–113
Japanese setbacks 124–125
kamikaze tactics 216–217
Midway 126–127
Operation Cartwheel
206–207
peace in the Pacific 246,
260–261
Pearl Harbor 110–111
retaking the Philippines
248–249
surrender of Singapore
118–119
US amphibious warfare
208–209
Pact of Steel (1939) 32, 72
Pakistan 262, 268, 269
Palau 116
Palawan Passage, Battle of
215
Palestine
creation of Israel 271
Jewish settlers in 73
Pan-American Security
Zone 64
Panther–Wotan Line 181
Papandreou, Georges 203
Papua 124
see also New Guinea
Paris
capture of 54
liberation of 159, 195
Paris Peace Conference (1919)
15, 17
partisan movements
Communist-led 130, 159,
177, 203
Greek 176, 177, 203
Italian 159, 176, 227, 240 ,
241
Soviet 100, 101
Yugoslav 176, 177, 202, 203,
238
Pas-de-Calais 186
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