The Yanks Are Coming! (54 page)

Seicheprey, France,
75–76
,
102

Seine River,
205

Selective Service Act (1917),
67

Selective Service Board,
249

Serbia, Serbians

    
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and,
14
,
20

    
cause of World War I,
5
,
14–17
,
20–22
,
28

    
Fourteen Points and,
309
,
320–21

    
invasion of,
28–29
,
39

Shantung, China,
321–22

Shearer, Maurice E.,
87

Shenandoah
,
177–78

Shepherd, Lemuel,
86

Sheridan (GM car),
231

Shirer, William,
328–29

Siam,
176

Siberia,
301–3
,
305

Sibert, William,
212–13

Sicily,
203
,
278–79
,
291

Siegfried Line,
107

Silver Star,
150–53
,
288

Sims, William,
71

Singapore,
148
,
176

Sioux, the,
123

Slovaks,
301
,
320–21

Slovenia, Slovenes,
320–21

Smithsonian Museum, the,
114

Smuts, Jan,
316

Social Democrat Party (Germany),
114

Soissons, France,
94–98

South Africa,
33
,
42
,
316

South Dakota,
123

Southerners,
49
,
121
,
145
,
158
,
194
,
252
,
262

South Korea,
162–63
,
263–65
.
See also
Korean War
;
North Korea

Soviet Russia.
See
Soviet Union, Soviets

Soviet Union, Soviets.
See also
Russia, Russians

    
alliance with Hitler,
9

    
Allies and (WWII),
235–36
,
258
,
279

    
post–World War II relationship with,
9
,
162
,
220–23
,
236
,
249
,
259–64
,
280

    
Russian Civil War and,
303–5

Spaatz, Carl “Tooey,”
229

Spads,
229

Spain,
136
,
287

Spanish-American War, the,
66
,
124–27
,
137
,
168
,
183
,
225–26
,
239
,
242
,
283–84

Sperry Rand,
164

Squier, George D.,
228

Staff College (Fort Leavenworth),
168
,
201

Stalin, Joseph,
188
,
249
,
258

Stallings, Laurence,
115

Stanton, C. E.,
70

Stevenson, Adlai,
265–66

Stewart, George Evans,
304

Stimson, Henry,
204
,
216
,
275

St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute,
270

St. Joseph's Seminary,
239

St. Patrick's Cathedral,
243

Summerall, Charles P.,
78
,
95
,
97
,
152–53
,
157
,
178
,
185–86

Sunbeam Motor Works,
228

Sunda Strait,
159

Supreme Court, the,
265
,
281
,
332

Surmelin Valley,
93–94

Switzerland,
31
,
237
,
312

Syria,
322–23

T

Taft, Robert,
265

Taft, William Howard,
148

Tangier,
18

Tennessee,
244
,
248–50

Teutonic Knights, the,
312

Teutons,
7
,
18
,
20

Texas,
60
,
115
,
146
,
149
,
177
,
202
,
211–12
,
236
,
271

Texas National Guard,
115

Thailand,
281

Third Reich,
5
,
232
,
328

Thomason, John,
83–84

Thurmond, Strom,
262

Toland, John,
300

Toulgas, Russia,
304

Trans-Siberian Railway,
303

Transylvania,
39

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the,
72
,
299–300

Treaty of Versailles, the,
21
,
23
,
233
,
307
,
318–19
,
322
,
325
,
330

    
Article
231
of,
23
,
318

Treitschke, Heinrich von,
8

Trenchard, Hugh,
170
,
175

trenches, trench warfare,
35
,
66
,
81
,
84
,
87
,
92–93
,
116
,
150
,
200
,
243
,
271

    
depression in the,
32

    
as different from traditional warfare,
66
,
73–74
,
81
,
83
,
91
,
96
,
131

    
no-man's-land and,
73
,
230

    
stalemate in the,
31
,
34–36
,
40
,
107
,
110
,
115
,
240–41

    
Winston Churchill in the,
39

Tripartite Pact,
216

Trotsky, Leon,
7
,
300

Truman administration,
162–64
,
221
,
264

Truman, Bess (née Wallace),
253–55

“Truman Committee,” the,
257
.
See also
Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program,

Truman Doctrine, the,
259–63

Truman, Harry S.

    
as commander in chief,
258–59
,
262–65
,
280–81

    
early life of,
251–53

    
early political career of,
255–57

    
life after presidency,
266–67

    
as president,
162–64
,
220–23
,
236
,
251
,
258–65

    
presidential campaign of,
262

    
as vice president,
257

    
in World War I,
5–6
,
107
,
251
,
253–54
,
267

Truscott, Lucian,
218

Tunisia,
203

Tupper, Katherine Boyce,
214

Turkey, Turks,
142
,
221
,
259–61
,
287

    
Armenia and,
322

    
Central Powers and,
38–39
,
288

    
Fourteen Points and,
309–10
,
322

    
Gallipoli Campaign and,
31
,
39

    
relationship with Germany,
19
,
38

U

U-boats,
53–59
,
71–74
,
171
,
173
,
287

Ukraine, Ukrainian,
40
,
320–21

United Nations,
163
,
264

United States

    
as “associate” power of Allies (WWI),
9–10
,
69
,
72
,
114–15
,
316

    
debts owed to,
142
,
318–19

    
economy of the,
16–17

    
entrance into World War I,
5
,
10
,
21
,
23
,
42
,
60–61
,
65–67
,
129–30
,
139–40
,
169–70
,
211–12
,
228–29

    
German attacks against the,
53–56
,
59–60

    
Huerta and the,
50–51

    
Mexico and,
198

    
military of the,
56
,
58
,
65–66
,
69
,
72
,
115–16
,
130
,
140
,
170–71
,
204
,
211
,
234

    
neutrality of the,
51–52
,
300–1

    
Philippines and,
158–60

    
relationship with Japan,
143
,
160
,
176
,
248
,
276

    
role in the world
221–22
,
234
,
260–63
,
300–5
,
310
,
314
,
322
,
325
,
330

    
Soviet Union and,
222
,
264
,
280
,
305

    
Treaty of Versailles and,
321
,
325–26

    
war with Spain,
136–37

    
in World War II,
204–5
,
207
,
216
,
218
,
234
,
275

United States Shipping Board Act,
56

United States Trust Company,
236

University of Minnesota,
81

University of Nebraska,
123

U.S. I Armored Corps,
202

U.S. I Corps,
102
,
105–6
,
108
,
117
,
152

U.S. II Corps,
203

    
1st Infantry Division,
203

U.S. III Corps,
108
,
117

U.S. III Corps Area,
154

U.S. IV Corps,
94
,
102

U.S. IV Corps Area,
154

U.S. V Corps,
102
,
108
,
117
,
153
,
185–86

U.S. 1st Cavalry Division,
202

U.S. 1st Division,
73
,
75
,
77
,
94–95
,
102
,
212
,
287

U.S. 2nd Division,
80
,
82–83
,
94
,
185–86

U.S. 3rd Artillery Regiment,
136

U.S. 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines,
85

U.S. 3rd Division,
79
,
92
,
94–95
,
132

U.S. 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard),
332

U.S. 4th Division,
291