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weapons procurement policy of, 120, 121–23

and World War I entry, 108, 115–16

and World War I neutrality, 110–15

Witte, Sergei, 72

Wobblies, 125

Wolseley, Garnet, 36

Woman Rebel, The
, 184

Women, in labor market, 353–54

Wood, Leonard, 26, 27, 29, 30, 128

Woodville, Richard Caton, 38

Woolworth (F.W.), 228–29

Works Progress Administration (WPA), 252

World Disarmament Conference of 1932, 167–68, 258

World War I

aftermath for Europe, 138–39

Belgian invasion, 85–90

Christmas truce, 99–100

Churchill in, 328

colonial troops in, 100–101, 102, 104

Eastern Front, 106, 126–27, 140

economic costs of, 70–72

Europe at outbreak of, 71–73, 75–79

final advance, 134, 135–37

military tactics in, 90–92

miscalculations of belligerents in, 83–86

and obsolescence of war theory, 69–70, 75

outbreak of, 79–83

poison gas in, 101–2

and Russian ceasefire, 126–27, 147, 154

Schlieffen Plan, 81, 87, 92–99, 106

surrender of Germany, 137

trench warfare, 102–4

U–boat attacks, 110–12, 115, 120, 169–70, 171

United States in

air war, 129, 131, 135

at Belleau Wood, 129–30

censorship during, 124–25

entry, 108, 115–16

financing of, 123

heroic exploits, 133–34, 137–38

independent command of, 126, 127, 132

loss replacements, 135

MacArthur's exploits in, 394–95

and merchant shipping, 120–21

Meuse-Argonne offensive, 129, 131, 132, 135

military production, 120, 121–23

neutrality, 110–15

Pershing's command, 126, 127, 128–29, 131–32

regiment formation, 134–35

tactics of, 128–29, 131, 135

veterans of, 137

war of attrition, 104–6

See also
Versailles Conference

World War II

aftermath in Europe, 310–11

air power in, 357–59, 381–84

Allied command, 376–77, 378, 406–9, 412–13

and American exceptionalism, 9–10

Ardennes offensive, 412–13

Battle of Britain, 326–30

Berlin, fall of, 413–14

Casablanca Conference, 401–2, 403

in Crete, 335–36, 374

D-Day invasion, 409–10

Eastern Front, 337–41, 343–47, 369–73, 380, 382, 397–400, 403–4, 410

espionage in, 327, 331–32, 397

“Europe First” strategy in, 376, 393

financing of, 290

Free French forces in, 336

French collapse, 319–26

in Greece and Balkans, 334, 335, 337, 374

Holocaust during, 329, 360, 383, 384, 387–90

human cost of, 414

Italian campaign, 403, 404

in Middle East, 336, 373–74, 375–76

and military production.
See
Military production

moral considerations in, 419–22

naval power in, 356–57, 375, 400

in North Africa, 334–35, 376–78

Norway invasion, 317–19

outbreak of, 296

“Phony War,” 313, 317

raw materials needs as motive for war, 311–12

submarine warfare in, 313, 331

surrender of Germany, 414

Tehran Conference, 402–3

U.S. entry, 308

U.S. military capability, 379–81

U.S. military preparedness, 332–34

Yalta Conference, 403, 414

See also
Pacific War

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 7, 64–65, 66, 68

Wright brothers, 177

Wurch, Ernest, 78

Yalta Conference, 403, 414

Yamamoto, Isoroku, 60, 171, 349, 350–51, 352–53, 367, 400

Yamashita, Tomoyuki, 362

Yellow fever, 29–30, 50, 54–55

York, Alvin, 133, 137–38

Young, Owen, 216, 217

Ypres, Battle of, 99, 101, 102, 103, 105

Yuan Shikai, 209

Yugoslavia, 164, 165, 256, 271, 273, 335, 411, 414

Zapata, Emiliano, 107

Zeitzler, Kurt, 344

Zhukov, Georgy, 345–46, 347, 398

Zimmerman telegram, 116

Zinoviev, Grigory, 148

Zionism, 200

Zog I, King of Albania, 165