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Great Britain, 36–37, 38–40, 44, 46–47,
55, 69–71, 75–81, 99
Greer, USS, 50
Grew, Joseph, 51
gross national product (GNP), 84
Guadalcanal, 68–69
Guam, 65
H
Havana Conference (1940), 49
Hess, Rudolf, 22
Hindenburg, Paul von, 20
Hiroshima, 112, 113
Hitler, Adolf, 19–22, 28–29, 36–37,
39–40, 44, 45, 72, 74, 80, 102, 103,
105–106
Hitler–Stalin Pact (1939), 39
Hull, Cordell, 17, 32, 52, 55
I
Indianapolis, USS, 17–18
industry, 86–87
internment camps, 12, 94–95
Italy, 28, 45, 52, 80–81
Italian internment, 12
Iwo Jima (1944), 107–109
J
Japan, 23–25, 51–63, 66–69, 106–114
invasion of China, 27, 29, 31, 32,
33–36
Pearl Harbor (1941), 7–11, 54–55,
x56–63
Japanese in the U.S. military, 95–96
Japanese internment, 12, 94–95
Jiang Jeishi, 53
K
kamikaze pilots, 109
Kearny, USS, 50
Konoye, Prince Fumimaro, 51, 55
Korea, 81, 115
L
League of Nations, 21, 25, 26, 28
Lend-Lease Act (1941), 42–43, 49
Leningrad, siege of, 72–73
Leyte Gulf, Battle of (1944), 107
London Economic Conference (1933),
16–18, 26
Lubbe, Marinus van der, 20
M
MacArthur, Chief of Staff Douglas, 26, 66,
106, 115
Maignot Line, 43, 44–45
Malaya, 65
Manhattan Project, 110–111
Marshall, General George C., 72, 115
Maryland, USS, 60
Matsuoka, Yosuke, 52
Mexican workers, 88–90
Mexico, 17
Midway, Battle of (1942), 67–68
military areas, US, 12
Montgomery, General Bernard, 75, 78, 79,
102, 103
Moscow, siege of, 72–73
Munich Accords, 37
Mussolini, Benito, 18, 28–29, 36, 45, 80
N
Nagasaki, 112
national debt, 85
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP), 91
National Defense Act (1940), 45–46
National Socialist German Workers Party
(Nazis), 19–21
Native Americans, during the war, 91–94
neutrality acts, 30–32, 40–41, 50
Nevada, USS, 60
New Deal, the, 15–18, 83
New Guinea, 66
New York World’s Fair, 34–35
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