440 index
Red Army (World War II) , 15 , 162 ,
172–73 , 175 , 183–84 , 190 , 192 ,
194–95 , 198 , 348 , 399 n 206
Reid, Harry , 315
Republican Guard (Iraqi) , 8 , 275 , 295 ,
413 n 5 , 419 n 118
Republican Party , 136 , 354 ( see also
Radical Republicans, Union Party )
during Civil War , 32 , 34 , 39 , 43 , 60 ,
62 , 64–66 , 70–72 , 74 , 76 , 80 ,
181–82 , 349 , 380 n 131
during Vietnam War , 237–38
during World War I , 93 , 121 , 127–29
during World War II , 165 , 187
during Iraq War , 301 , 309 , 311 ,
314–15 , 320–22 , 362
Revenue Act of 1942 , 163
Rice, Condoleeza , 281 , 283 , 290 , 305 ,
311 , 313 , 414 n 29
Richardson, James O. , 144
Richmond , 49 , 55 , 60
Ricks, Th omas , 414 n 24 , 418 n 92
Ridgeway, Matthew , 407 n 97
Robb, Chuck , 315
Roberts, Andrew , 396 n 135 , 398 n 177
Rome , 175
Rommel, Erwin , 156
Roosevelt, Franklin D. , 9 , 18–19 ,
22–23 , 29 , 35 , 136–7 , 141–42 ,
150–51 , 157 , 340 , 346
aids allies , 144 , 148
asserts broad wartime emergency
powers , 146
enjoys broad discretion when
United States enters war ,
199–200
and conservatives , 135–36 , 163–66 ,
181 , 198–99 , 350
and cross-Channel invasion of
France , 171–76 , 194
diff ers with allies over postwar
order , 182–84
and Douglas MacArthur , 148 ,
169–70 , 177–78
and failed plan to pack Supreme
Court , 134 , 136 , 138–39
and George C. Marshall , 150–51 ,
173 , 175–176 , 180 , 192 , 200
identifi es Hitler and Germany as
primary threat , 133–34 , 138 ,
148–49 , 171
and Josef Stalin , 159 , 184–85 , 188 ,
191 , 198 , 398 n 189
learns from Wilson’s mistakes ,
136–37 , 156–57 , 181 , 187–88
loses freedom of action over course
of war , 134 , 156 , 180–81 , 186 , 195 ,
198–200
as military commander in chief ,
134–35 , 168 , 171–80 , 191 , 194–95 ,
200 , 318 , 342
and New Deal , 136 , 168 , 349–50
and peace-building , 134–35 , 176 ,
180 , 182 , 186–88 , 191–92 , 347 , 357
prepares for American entry into
war , 134
and public opinion , 23 , 134 , 139–40 ,
153–54 , 184–85 , 187–88 , 192 , 199 ,
344–45
and race relations , 160 , 166–67
seeks to retain freedom of action ,
134 , 138–39 , 142–43 , 145–47 , 149 ,
151 , 180 , 182 , 195 , 199–200 , 348
and social reform during and after
the war , 163–64 , 168 , 350
sustains support for the war , 195–98
tries to deter Japan in Pacifi c , 137 ,
141–45 , 147–50 , 341 , 352
and unconditional surrender ,
154–55 , 185
view of postwar order , 157 , 178–79 ,
182 , 187 , 191–92 , 347
war goals of , 154 , 156–59
as wartime strategist , 135 , 191–93
war mobilization and fi nance under ,
135 , 150 , 152 , 154 , 160–63 , 173–74 ,
350–51
Roosevelt, Th eodore , 86 , 93 , 102