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America First Committee,
41
,
48
,
120
,
134
,
500

“American Century,”
357

American Civil Liberties Union,
216

American Dilemma, An
(Myrdal),
472

American Jewish Congress,
395

American Labor party,
277
,
281

American Legion,
220

Andaman Islands,
202
,
222
,
414
,
415

Anderson, Sir John,
457

Anderson, Maxwell,
271

Anglo-American-Canadian policy committee,
457

Angola,
397

Ann Arbor, Mich.,
466

Anti-Comintern Pact, 1936,
19

Antigua,
25

Anti-Semitism,
280
.
See also
Jews

ANVIL,
414
,
415
,
439
,
440
,
478-480

Anzio,
438-440
,
446

Appeasement,
28

Appropriations Committee (Senate),
432

Arabs,
397
,
578-579
.
See also
Ibn Saud

Arakan, Burma,
541

ARCADIA
Conference,
178-190
,
229
,
247

Archangel,
113
,
153

Arctic Sea,
243
,
310

Ardennes,
553
,
558

Argentia meeting,
125-131
,
132
,
134
,
135
,
136
,
178
,
475

Argentina,
57

Arizona
, U.S.S.,
162

Arkansas River,
510
,
528

Arkansas Valley development,
301

Army, U.S.,
246
,
349
,
470-472
; First Army,
482
; Third Army,
482
; Fifth Army,
321
,
394
,
438
; Seventh Army,
382
; II Corps,
326
,
329
; Corps of Engineers,
251
; 36th Division,
438
; 7th Infantry Division,
489
; 9th In­fantry Division,
321
; Ordnance,
250
,
344
; Specialized Training Program,
464
; War Plans Division,
229
. See
also
Combined Chiefs of Staff; Joint Chiefs of Staff, American

Army Air Force.
See
Air Force, U.S.

Army-Navy Joint Board,
182

Arnold, Henry (“Hap”),
183
,
316
,
318
,
402
,
407
,
446
,
490
,
494

“Arsenal of Democracy” speech.
See
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano:
oratory

Artificial harbors,
477

Asia.
See
Far East; Pacific theater;
and names of specific Asian countries
Athens,
538
,
565

Atlanta
Constitution
,
599

Atlantic bases, acquisition of,
160

Atlantic Charter,
128
,
130
,
132
,
183
,
187
,
242
,
243
,
362
,
379
,
380
,
384
,
467
,
534
,
547
,
560
,
572
,
583
,
592
,
593
; quoted,
130-131

Atlantic Convoy
(film),
271

Atlantic First strategy,
86
,
87
,
91-92
,
101-107
,
112
,
115
,
128
,
150
,
179
,
181
,
188
,
189
,
207
,
217
,
231
,
242-243
,
312
,
314
,
319
,
422
,
546
,
593
,
609

Atlantic theater,
10
,
12
,
13
,
65
,
69
,
77
,
79
,
80
,
87
,
89-91
,
92
,
98-104
,
110
,
111
,
127
,
139-141
,
142
,
143
,
147-148
,
173-174
,
180
,
243-245
,
308
,
309
,
327
,
328
,
368
,
474

Atlas Mountains,
317
,
324

Atomic bomb,
249-252
,
345
,
455-459
,
546
,
550
,
558
,
587
,
591
,
596
,
608

Attlee, Clement,
10
,
241

Attu,
226
,
383

Augusta
, U.S.S.,
125
,
126
,
129
,
475

Austin, Warren,
426
,
594

Australia,
20
,
90
,
156
,
181
,
185
,
186
,
203-204
,
207
,
209
,
223
,
225
,
248
,
266
,
283
,
382
,
390
,
444
,
488

Austria,
15
,
365
,
519

Auto Workers (union),
193

Automobile industry,
118

Avery, Sewell,
454-455

Axis.
See
Germany; Italy; Japan

Azores,
65
,
105
,
127
,
180
,
352
,
353

B-18’s,
346

B-24 Liberators,
346

B-29’s,
558

Badoglio, Pietro,
384
,
385
,
391-394
,
422
,
548
,
608

Bailey, Josiah,
98

Balaklava,
578

Bali,
223

Balkans,
14
,
15
,
17
,
64
,
65
,
71-72
,
73
,
74
,
75
,
77
,
94
,
100
,
305
,
308
,
314
,
369
,
392
,
408
,
479
,
483-484
,
518
,
537
,
545
,
557

Ball, Joseph H.,
426
,
526
,
594

Baltic,
17
,
94
,
102
,
187
,
365
,
409
,
413
,
557
,
582

Baltimore
, U.S.S.,
488
,
489
,
496

Baltimore
Sun
,
22
,
119

Bangkok,
203

Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
514

Bankhead, William B.,
427
,
506

Bankhead bill,
340

Banking and Currency Committee (House),
197
; (Senate),
40

“Barbarossa” (German plan to crush

Russia),
68
,
72
,
106
.
See also
Russia: German invasion

Barbary Coast,
403

Barclay, Edwin,
324

Barkley, Alben W.,
40
,
48
,
164
,
197
,
258
,
427
,
429
,
433
,
434
,
435-436
,
437
,
504
,
506
,
533

Barton, Bruce,
98

Baruch, Bernard,
52-53
,
60
,
62
,
247
,
259
,
334
,
339
,
340
,
352
,
432
,
449
,
451
,
581

Bastert, Russell,
551

Bastogne,
554

Bataan Peninsula,
206
,
207
,
226

Bathurst,
316
,
324
,
390

Bean, Louis H.,
524

Beard, Charles A.,
516

Beaverbrook, Lord,
153
,
179
,
182
,
334

Becker, Carl,
516

Belgium,
33
,
80
,
185
,
365
,
474

Belgrade,
71-72

Beneš, Eduard,
300

Bengal,
381

Bengal, Bay of,
202
,
222
,
231
,
376
,
404
,
405
,
411

Benghazi,
76

Bennett, John J.,
277

Berchtesgaden,
330
,
477

Bering Strait,
368

Berle, Adolf A.,
129
,
398
,
580
,
603

Berlin,
17
,
80
,
446
,
557
,
582
,
585
,
599
Bermuda,
266
,
396
,
580

Bessarabia,
15

Beveridge, Sir William,
361

Biak Island,
444
,
487

Biddle, Francis,
164
,
214
,
215
,
216
,
217
,
337
,
453
,
455
,
594

Big Three meetings.
See
Casablanca Conference; Teheran Conference; Yalta Conference

Big Four (China, Great Britain, Russia, United States),
358
,
359
,
366
,
404
,
409
,
427
,
515
,
516
,
544
,
547
,
549
,
604
,
609
.
See also names of specific countries

Bilbo, Theodore G.,
427

Bill of Rights,
214
,
386
; second, proposed,
560

Biscay, Bay of,
87

Bismarck
(German battleship),
99-100
,
126

Bismarck Archipelago,
202

Bitter Lake,
578

Bituminous-coal mines,
335

Bizerte,
285
.
298
,
326
,
329
,
330

Black Americans: discriminationagainst, in industry,
54
,
264-265
,
421
,
462-463
,
466
,
510
; Federal Employ­ment Practices Committee and,
124
,
264-265
,
421
,
462
; importance of, to the war effort,
271-272
,
385
; integra­tion as postwar problem,
466
; lynch­ing of,
388
; migration of, to cities,
355
,
461
,
462
; plight of, in the U.S.,
54-55
; problems of, mentioned by Gandhi in letter to F.D.R.,
239
; race riots involving,
388
,
466
; refused admittance to white universities,
462-463
; right of, to jobs,
510
; and F.D.R.,
123-124
,
265-266
,
463
,
472
; Eleanor Roosevelt as spokeswoman for,
8
,
59
,
123
,
124
,
266
,
472
; in the services,
54-55
,
265-266
,
471-472
,
512
; shifting to Republican party,
280
; and the South,
431
,
461
,
462
; tendency to vote Democratic,
524
; transitional period for,
262
,
462-463
; urge President to abolish discrimina­tion in federal agencies,
123
; vote for F.D.R.,
530
; Willkie as champion of,
499
,
512

Black Sea,
237
,
564

Blair House,
451

Bloom, Sol,
40
,
45
,
164

“Blue Print for Extermination,”
395

Board of Economic Warfare (BEW),
341

Boeing plant, Seattle,
269
,
334

Boettiger, John,
269
,
406
,
414
,
579

Boettiger, Mrs. John.
See
Roosevelt, Anna

Boettiger, John, Jr. (Johnnie),
532
,
579

Bohlen, Charles E.,
406

Bohr, Niels,
249-250
,
457
,
458
,
459
,
591

Bombay Harbor,
549

Bombing: of Belgrade,
71-72
; of Chungking,
81-82
; of Europe,
484
; of France, planned,
305
; of Germany,
17
,
237
,
244
,
325
,
345
,
346
,
370
,
371
,
445-446
,
554
,
557
,
595-596
,
601
; of Great Britain,
9
,
29
,
33
,
78
,
79
,
558
; of Japan,
86
,
224
,
344-345
,
346
.
445
,
486
,
558
,
588
,
595-596
,
599
; of Rome,
383

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