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Index

aerial bombardment 1, 71, 92, 147, 163, 174, 283, 404, 457–8, 468

in Britain 91, 103, 104, 106, 142

in China 248, 250

in Germany 159, 349, 380–82, 387

in Japan 252, 256, 308–9, 314

in New Guinea 296, 297

in Soviet Union 195, 197, 198, 318, 322, 326, 346

Africa 3, 72, 103, 106, 120, 121, 123, 124, 126, 132, 141, 154, 476, 488, 489, 500

rationing in 136

agribusiness 80, 82, 84, 162, 445, 480

agricultural revolution 9, 11, 75, 78, 85, 91, 92, 138, 265–6, 245, 491–2, 494

agricultural mechanization 9, 81, 84, 91, 92, 444–5, 482, 491

agricultural productivity 27, 45, 51, 71, 78, 82, 85, 89, 93, 94, 98, 138, 155, 164, 169, 172, 221, 229, 232, 251, 258, 266, 491, 492, 501

agricultural withdrawal into subsistence 162–3, 233, 262

agricultural workers 9

braceros
80

schoolchildren as 79, 95, 231

shortages 24, 9, 11, 24, 44, 61, 75, 78–9, 81, 84, 95, 125, 134, 135, 158–60, 170, 217, 229, 244, 251, 258, 278, 456

women as 79, 84, 86, 94, 159, 160, 170, 186, 222, 230, 231, 456, 470

Algeria, 113, 126

Allied liberation of Europe 7, 176, 177, 474

anti-Semitism
see
Holocaust, Jews

arable farming 4, 89, 93, 95, 98, 175, 229, 262, 389, 491

Argentina 19, 68, 101, 109, 114, 125, 262, 472

restructures food industry 8, 99

armaments industry/ production 29, 110, 159, 191, 223, 232, 242, 269, 326, 332, 333, 335, 429

Atlantic, battle of

during First World War 23

during Second World War 68, 101, 102–3, 107, 115, 116–17, 271, 381

Atlantic Charter 481

atomic bomb 275, 309, 311, 312, 314, 316, 464, 468, 483

Australia 19, 21, 67, 68, 84, 118, 120, 125, 128, 129, 152, 232, 247, 283

and United States 121, 444, 446–50, 488–9, 492–3, 496

contribution to war 443–4

pre-war diet 351, 401

rationing in 394, 447

restructures agriculture 8, 97–8, 445–6

wartime improvement in diet 394

Australian army 294, 296, 297, 298, 298, 384, 403

and food/rations 14, 385, 401–2, 406–11, 414, 437, 441, 446–7

autarky 2, 31, 64, 229, 237, 472

Germany and 28, 33, 64, 156, 347, 354, 355, 357–8

Backe, Herbert 5, 32–8, 47, 155, 156, 164, 165, 178, 180, 182, 183, 187, 189, 190, 191, 194, 203, 204, 209, 210, 214, 216, 217, 269, 347, 368, 370

bacon 18, 67, 94, 98, 102, 115, 133, 149, 158, 162, 175, 334, 351, 356, 361, 375, 388, 392, 400, 405, 415, 436, 437, 441, 447, 493, 506

Barbarossa decree 185

barley 19, 25, 53, 68, 70, 92, 93, 130, 157, 197, 213, 234, 246, 277, 278, 280, 282, 287, 290, 291, 377, 379, 382, 471, 498, 540n, 543n

Bataan peninsula 245, 462

Bechuanaland 120, 121, 123, 124, 404, 411

beef 3, 19, 51, 67, 83, 99, 109, 112, 170, 175, 222, 276, 279, 356, 365, 412, 413, 421, 431, 440 447, 449, 450, 451, 472, 541n

bully/corned 14, 85, 99, 111, 115, 145, 283, 284, 301, 377, 385, 403, 404, 405, 432, 450, 451, 455, 457, 461

Belgium 7, 34, 46, 164, 168–9, 171, 174, 178, 208, 477, 479, 480

Belorussia 36, 186, 190

beriberi 240, 245, 275, 299, 311

Berlin 24, 41, 170, 182, 209, 218, 347, 355, 376, 377, 379, 425

Beveridge Report 397, 434

biofuels 4, 500, 501

birth rate 25, 311, 344

birth weight 265, 468

black market 37, 73, 97, 131, 136–7, 178, 204, 256, 262, 374

in Britain 374–6

in General Government 206–7, 212, 218

in Germany 162, 356, 360, 374–8, 283, 468

in India 122, 146, 147

in Japan 242, 288–9, 306, 309

in occupied Europe 163, 166, 169, 170, 171, 175, 176, 178

in occupied south-east Asia 237, 239, 243

in occupied Soviet Union 191, 215, 216, 217

in Soviet Union 321, 338

in the United States 432

blockade 23, 30, 259, 302

during First World War 23–4, 25

of Allies 8, 26, 110, 113

of Japan 8, 115, 229, 230, 232, 235, 238, 239, 242, 273, 286, 290, 303, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 314

of Nationalist China 8, 11, 66, 141, 251–2

of occupied Europe 8, 23, 35, 66, 156, 166, 167, 168, 175, 178, 298, 358

of south-east Asia 238, 243

of Ukrainian cities 5, 213, 214, 263

Blunt, Maggie Joy 106, 115, 391

Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Werner von 192, 377

Bräutigam, Otto 187, 197

Brazil 2, 87, 500

bread 4, 9, 14, 18, 19, 21, 25, 87, 125, 202, 207, 238, 240, 243, 271, 275, 282, 412, 415, 422, 448, 464, 480, 494, 496–7, 501

in Britain 13, 20, 89, 90, 93, 94, 96, 105, 115, 348, 351, 363, 365, 366, 386, 387–9, 390, 392, 398, 400, 420, 472, 474

in Germany 21, 22, 25, 28, 164, 181–2, 203, 212, 217, 218, 347, 354, 357–8, 359, 368, 370, 373, 379, 380, 381, 383, 437, 449, 468, 480, 494

in Italy 173, 174

in Japan 282, 288, 307, 497–8

in Middle East 129, 131, 404

in occupied Europe 163, 166, 169, 176, 178, 195, 196, 197, 199, 479

in occupied Soviet Union 39, 184, 192, 322

in Pacific 408, 410, 411, 450, 457, 460, 461

in Soviet Union 12, 219, 224, 225, 268, 319, 320, 321, 328, 329–30, 331, 333, 334, 335, 337, 338, 339, 437, 470, 471

in United States 421, 423, 436, 478

rationing 89, 164, 173, 181, 182, 202, 212, 217, 381, 329–30, 334, 335, 338, 339, 363, 472, 485

bread grains 9, 29, 93, 96, 157, 159, 162, 186

Britain 2, 16, 34, 36, 62, 64, 67, 68, 69, 89, 103, 104–5, 110, 120, 164, 167–8, 177, 228, 248, 339, 340, 358, 399, 432, 444

agriculture 22, 73, 89–96, 101, 155, 229, 231

and its Empire 120–54, 156, 488

and First World War 23–4, 50, 104, 501

and United States 69, 76, 81, 96, 103, 108–15, 139, 141, 154