The Yanks Are Coming! (56 page)

    
troops not fighting on the,
37
,
97
,
303

Westerns (genre),
146
,
224

Westminster College,
259

West Point,
164
,
182
,
194
,
210
,
252–54
,
286
.
See also
Academy, the

    
examination for,
122
,
147–48
,
150

    
graduates of,
77
,
92
,
136–37
,
205
,
242

    
instructors at,
124
,
141
,
153

West Texas Military Academy,
146

White, Henry,
313

White House, the

    
Calvin Coolidge in,
255

    
Franklin Roosevelt in,
215
,
257–58
,
276

    
Harry Truman in,
258
,
265

    
Theodore Roosevelt in,
285

    
Woodrow Wilson in,
43
,
129

White Russians,
298
,
300–5

Whittlesey, Charles W.,
110–14

Wilhelm II (Kaiser),
6
,
21
,
39
,
56–58
,
65
,
114
,
297–98

    
“diplomacy” of,
17–20
,
26

    
exile of,
312

    
military of,
29
,
76
,
329

Wilhelm Line, the,
102–3

Wilhelm, Prince,
37

Williams, Clarence C.,
68
,
82

Wilson, Hugh,
274

Wilson, Woodrow

    
administration of,
45–49
,
53
,
68
,
71
,
217

    
as commander in chief,
66–68
,
100
,
114
,
130
,
139–40
,
246
,
286
,
297
,
302

    
entrance into World War I,
59–60
,
67

    
foreign policy of,
43–45
,
51–52
,
54–56

    
Fourteen Points of,
114
,
307–11

    
naval power under,
56–59

    
neutrality of,
5
,
44
,
52
,
56–58
,
65

    
post–World War I negotiations and,
307–26

    
Russian Revolution and,
297–305

    
stroke suffered by,
321

    
view of America's role in the world,
5
,
49–52
,
56
,
59–61
,
304–5
,
311

Wise, John,
210

Wood, Leonard,
129
,
149
,
197

Woollcott, Alexander,
243

World War I.
See also
First World War
;
Great War, the

    
American military in,
184
,
220
,
249
,
251
,
267
,
291

    
causes of,
22

    
German military in,
232

    
popular view of,
4–5

World War II.
See also
Second World War

    
Alvin York's thoughts on,
249

    
American involvement in,
10
,
290

    
casualties in,
234

    
relationship to World War I,
330

    
Winston Churchill's thoughts on,
330

World War III,
264

Y

Yokohama, Japan,
298

York, Alvin, C.

    
early life of,
243–45

    
just war and,
9
,
245

    
life after World War I,
247–50

    
Meuse-Argonne Campaign and,
1–4
,
246

Younger, Edward F.,
331

Yountville Soldier's Home,
114

Ypres, Belgium,
75

Yugoslavia,
14
,
278
,
321

Z

Zimmermann, Arthur,
59–60

Zimmermann Telegram,
59–60

Zionism, Zionist,
222–23
,
323