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286 INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Battle of Normandy 191

bombing of Germany 172–173,

234–235

bombing of Japan 252–253

casualties 186, 187, 200, 208, 211,

212, 246, 249, 254

Cold War 262–263

D-Day Landings 186–187

Hiroshima and Nagasaki 258–259

home front 114–115

joins war 68–69, 104, 110, 111, 168

Lend-Lease 70–71

in the Mediterranean 164–167, 241

neutrality 68, 70

Normandy breakout 194–195

in North Africa 146, 147

Omaha Beach 188–189

Operation Cartwheel 206–207

Pearl Harbor 110–111

in Southeast Asia 218

support for China via The Hump

220, 221

War in the Pacific 104–105, 113,

116–117, 124–129, 205, 206–213,

248–255

western Atlantic patrols 65

Untermenschen 91

US Air Force (USAAF) 172–173,

234–235, 252–253

US Navy 110–111, 211, 212–215, 249,

253

Utah Beach 186, 188

V

V-weapons 192–193, 234, 235

Valletta 86–87

VE Day 227, 244–245

Vella Lavella 206

Vemork heavy water plant 256

Versailles, Treaty of 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,

20, 28, 29

Vichy France 37, 54, 55, 57, 72–73, 82,

83, 107, 132, 146, 161

end of 132, 147

Vienna 227

Vietnam 106, 262, 263, 269

Vistula, river 182

Vitebsk 183

Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy 79

Volga, river 130, 150, 151

Volkhov Front 94, 101

Voronezh 153, 178, 179

Vosges mountains 195

Vyazma 96, 100, 101

W

Waal, river 198

Waffen-SS 132

Wainwright, General Jonathan

Mayhew IV 116

Wake Island 110, 113

Walcheren Island 200

Wall Street Crash 12, 18, 19, 20

war crimes trials 262

Warsaw 38, 159, 182

Warsaw Ghetto 39, 134, 136–137

Warsaw Pact 262, 264, 265

Warsaw Uprising 176, 184–185

Washington Conference 186

Wavell, General Archibald 77

Weidling, General Helmuth 243

Weimar Republic 12

West Germany 262, 263, 264

Western Desert Campaign 73

Western Front see Europe

Westwall (Siegfried Line) 199, 200

White Rose group 176, 177

Wilhelm II, Kaiser 14

Wilson, Lieutenant-General Henry

Maitland 80, 81

Wilson, Woodrow 15, 17

Wingate, General Orde 218

Winter War (Finland) 44–45, 89

Wissenthak, Simon 135

Wolf’s Lair 197

women

conscription 62

in industry 92–93, 114–115, 204

votes for 263

World War I, legacy of 12, 13, 14–15,

17

X

Xuzhou 266, 267

Y

Yalta Conference 226, 230–231, 232,

265

Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku 104, 124 ,

126, 127, 204, 206, 207

Yamashita, General Tomoyuki 118,

249

Yan’an 267

Yangtze, river 266, 267

Yellow River 267

Yonai, Admiral 214

USS Yorktown 126, 127

Yoshijiro, General Umezu 261

Yuan Shih-k’ai 22

Yugoslavia 202–203

German invasion of 72, 80

legacy of World War I 14, 15

liberation of 203

Partisans 159, 176, 177, 238

and Soviet Union 238, 263, 264

Z

Zagreb 80

Zhukov, General Georgy 24, 96, 101 ,

152, 183, 238, 242–243

Zionism 271

Dorling Kindersley would like to thank the following people for their

help in the preparation of this book: Phil Gamble for additional map

design; Steve Crozier for image retouching; Garima Agarwal, Simar

Dhamija, and Bianca Zambrea for design assistance; Jaypal Singh

Chauhan for DTP assistance; Martyn Page and Kate Taylor for editorial

assistance; Katie John for proofreading; and Helen Peters for indexing.

Additional map references: maps courtesy of the USMA, Department

of History; contains map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Editors’ note: place names are mostly given in their contemporary forms,

except China, where Pinyin Romanization is used. Tonnage is given in

metric tonnes and US tons.

The publisher would like to thank the following for their kind permission

to reproduce their photographs:

(Key: a-above; b-below/bottom; c-centre; f-far; l-left; r-right; t-top)

2 Dorling Kindersley: Wardrobe Museum, Salisbury. 4 Getty Images:

Bettmann (tl); Henry Guttmann Collection / Hulton Archive (tr). 4-5 Getty

Images: Ullstein bild Dtl.. 5 Getty Images: Henry Guttmann Collection /

Hulton Archive (tl); J. R. Eyerman / The LIFE Picture Collection (tr). 6 Getty

Images: Sgt Robert Howard / Hulton Archive (tl, tr). 6-7 Getty Images:

Ullstein bild Dtl.. 7 The US National Archives and Records Administration:

Photographer: Joe Rosenthal (tl). 8-9 John Calvin / http://www.wwii-photos-maps.

com. 10-11 Getty Images: Bettmann. 12 Getty Images: Photo 12 / UIG (tl). 13

Getty Images: De Agostini / Biblioteca Ambrosiana (cr); Popperfoto (tl). 14

Getty Images: Swim ink 2 llc / Corbis Historical (tl). 15 Getty Images:

Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group (br). 16 Alamy Stock

Photo: Photo 12 (tl). 18 Getty Images: Stefano Bianchetti / Corbis Historical

(bl). 19 Alamy Stock Photo: IanDagnall Computing (br). 20-21 Getty Images:

Bettmann. 20 Getty Images: Bettmann (bc); Adoc-photos / Corbis Historical

(cl). 22 Alamy Stock Photo: Granger Historical Picture Archive (bc). Getty

Images: Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group (tr). 24 Alamy

Stock Photo: Pictorial Press Ltd (bl). Getty Images: Ullstein bild Dtl. (br). 26

akg-images: Pictures From History (bl). 26-27 Imperial War Museum. 28

akg-images: (tr). Getty Images: Keystone / Hulton Archive (bc). 30-31

Bridgeman Images: Pictures from History. 31 Bridgeman Images: Pictures

from History (br). Dorling Kindersley: By kind permission of The Trustees of

the Imperial War Museum, London (cr). 32 Getty Images: Print Collector /

Hulton Archive (bc). 33 Getty Images: Michael Nicholson / Corbis Historical

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