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Introduction

ABC-CLIO's Encyclopedia of World War II: A Political, Social, and Military History

Essays

Origins of the War

Overview of World War II

Legacy of the War

A

Aachen, Battle of (13 September–21 October 1944)

Abe Hiroaki (1890–1949)

Abe Koso (1892–1947)

Abe Nobuyuki (1875–1953)

Abrams, Creighton Williams (1914–1974)

Abrial, Jean Marie Charles (1879–1962)

Absolute National Defense Zone (Zettai kokubo ken)

Adachi Hatazo (1890–1947)

Adam, Wilhelm (1877–1949)

Admiralty Islands Campaign (29 February–18 May 1944)

Afghanistan

Africa

Afrika Korps

Ainsworth, Walden Lee "Pug" (1886–1960)

Airborne Forces, Allied

Airborne Forces, Axis

Aircraft, Production of

Aircraft, Reconnaissance and Auxiliary

Aitken, William Maxwell (First Baron Beaverbrook, Lord Beaverbrook) (1879–1964)

Aixinjueluo Puyi (Aisingioro P'u-i) (1906–1967)

Alam Halfa, Battle of (31 August–7 September 1942)

Alamogordo (16 July 1945)

Albania, Role in the War

Aleutian Islands Campaign (1942–1943)

Alexander, Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George (First Earl Alexander of Tunis)

Allen, Terry de la Mesa (1888–1969)

Allied Military Tribunals after the War

Alsace Campaign (November 1944–January 1945)

Altmark Incident (16 February 1940)

Ambrosio, Vittorio (1879–1958)

America First Committee (1940–1942)

Amphibious Warfare

Anami Korechika (1887–1945)

Anders, Wladyslaw (1892–1970)

Anderson, Frederick Lewis, Jr. (1905–1969)

Anderson, Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel (1891–1959)

Andrews, Frank Maxwell (1884–1943)

Angelis, Maximilian de (1889–1974)

Animals

Antiaircraft Artillery (AAA) and Employment

Anti-Comintern Pact (25 November 1936)

Antisubmarine Warfare

Antitank Guns and Warfare

Antonescu, Ion (1882–1946)

Antonov, Alexei Innokentievich (1896–1962)

Antwerp, Battle of (4 September–2 October 1944)

Anzio, Battle of (22 January–25 May 1944)

Arakan, First Campaign (October 1942–May 1943)

Arakan, Second Campaign (December 1943–July 1944)

arcadia Conference

Ardeatine Massacre (24 March 1944)

Ardennes Offensive (Battle of the Bulge) (16 December 1944–16 January 1945)

Arima Masafumi (1895–1944)

Armaments Production

Armored Cars

Armored Personnel Carriers

Armored Warfare

Arnauld de la Perière, Lothar von (1886–1942)

Arnim, Hans Jürgen Dieter von (1889–1962)

Arnold, Henry Harley "Hap" (1886–1950)

Art and the War

Artillery Doctrine

Artillery Types

Aruga Kosaku (1897–1945)

Asaka Yasuhiko (1887–1981)

Atlantic, Battle of the

Atlantic Charter (14 August 1941)

Atlantic Wall

Atomic Bomb, Decision to Employ

Attlee, Clement Richard (First Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood) (1883–1967)

Auboyneau, Philippe Marie Joseph Raymond (1899–1961)

Auchinleck, Sir Claude John Eyre (1884–1981)

Aung San, U (ca. 1915–1947)

Auphan, Paul Gabriel (1894–1982)

Australia, Air Force

Australia, Army

Australia, Navy

Australia, Role in War

Austria

Automedon, Sinking of (11 November 1940)

Auxiliary Vessels

Aviation, Ground-Attack

Aviation, Naval

Avranches, Battle of (7–12 August 1944)

"Axis Sally" (Mildred Elizabeth Gillars) (1900–1988)

B

Ba Maw (1893–1977)

Babi Yar Massacre (29–30 September 1941)

"Baby Blitz" (January–May 1944)

Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem (1899–1973)

Bader, Sir Douglas Robert Steuart (1910–1982)

Badoglio, Pietro (1871–1956)

Bäer, Heinrich (1913–1957)

Bagramyan (Begramian), Ivan Khristoforovich (1897–1982)

Bai Chongxi (Pai Ch'ung-hsi) (1893–1966)

Balbo, Italo (1896–1940)

Balck, Hermann (1893–1984)

Balkans Theater

Balloon Bombs (1944–1945)

Banten Bay, Battle of (28 February 1942)

barbarossa, Operation (22 June 19

Barbey, Daniel Edward (1889–1969)

Barkhorn, Gerhard (1919–1983)

Barrage Balloons

Barré, Georges Edmund Lucien (1886–1970)

Baruch, Bernard Mannes (1870–1965)

Bastico, Ettore (1876–1972)

Bastogne, Battle for (19 December 1944–9 January 1945)

Bataan, Battle of (1942)

Bataan Death March (April 1942)

Batov, Pavel Ivanovich (1897–1985)

Battle Cruisers (All Powers)

Battleships

Bay of Biscay Offensive (February–August 1943)

Bayerlein, Fritz (1899–1970)

Bayonets

Beck, Ludwig (1880–1944)

Belgium, Air Service

Belgium, Army

Belgium, Role in the War

Belgium Campaign (10–28 May 1940)

Belorussia Offensive (22 June–29 August 1944)

Belov, Pavel Alekseyevich (1897–1962)

Benes, Eduard (1884–1948)

Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910–1986)

Bennett, Henry Gordon "Cocky" (1887–1962)

Berenguer y Fuste, Dámaso (1873–1953)

Bergeret, Jean Marie Joseph (1895–1956)

Berlin, Air Battle of (November 1943–March 1944)

Berlin, Land Battle for (31 March–2 May 1945)

Bernadotte of Wisborg, Folke (Count) (1895–1948)

Besson, Antoine Marie Benoit (1876–1969)

Béthouart, Marie Émile Antoine (1889–1982)

Bevin, Ernest (1881–1951)

Bhamo, Siege of (14 November–15 December 1944)

"Big Week" Air Battle (20–25 February 1944)

Billotte, Gaston Henri Gustave (1875–1940)

Bismarck, Sortie and Sinking of (May 1941)

Bismarck Sea, Battle of (2–5 March 1943)

Bittrich, Wilhelm (1894–1979)

"Black May" (May 1943)

Blamey, Sir Thomas Albert (1884–1951)

Blanchard, Jean Georges Maurice (1877–1954)

Blandy, William Henry Purnell (1890–1954)

Blaskowitz, Johannes Albrecht von (1883–1948)

Bletchley Park

Blitz, The (August 1940–May 1941)

Blitzkrieg

Bloch, Claude Charles (1878–1967)

Blockade-Running

Blomberg, Werner von (1878–1946)

Blue Division (1941–1943)

Blum, Léon (1872–1950)

Blumentritt, Günther (1892–1967)

Bock, Fedor von (1880–1945)

bodenplatte, Operation

Bohr, Niels Henrik David (1885–1962)

Boisson, Pierre François (1894–1948)

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906–1945)

Borghese, Junio Valerio (1906–1974)

Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (1894–1943)

Bór-Komorowski, Tadeusz (1895–1966)

Bormann, Martin Ludwig (1900–1945)

Bose, Subhas Chandra (1897–1945)

Bottai, Giuseppe (1895–1959)

Bougainville Campaign (1 November 1943–15 August 1945)

Bowhill, Sir Frederick William "Ginger" (1880–1960)

Boyington, Gregory "Pappy" (1912–1988)

Bradley, Omar Nelson (1893–1981)

Brandenberger, Erich (1892–1955)

Brauchitsch, Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von (1881–1948)

Braun, Wernher von (1912–1977)

Brazil

Brereton, Lewis Hyde (1890–1967)

Brett, George Howard (1886–1963)

Bridgeford, Sir William (1894–1971)

Britain, Battle of (10 July–30 September 1940)

Brooke, Sir Alan Francis (First Viscount Alanbrooke) (1883–1963)

Brooke-Popham, Sir Henry Robert Moore (1878–1953)

Browning, Frederick (1896–1965)

B-29 Raids against Japan (June 1944–August 1945)

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr. (1886–1945)

Budapest, Battle of (3 November 1944–13 February 1945)

Budenny, Semen Mikhailovich (1883–1973)

Bulgaria, Air Service

Bulgaria, Navy

Bulgaria, Role in the War

Bull, Harold Roe (1893–1976)

Buna, Battle of (16 November 1942–22 January 1943)

Burke, Arleigh Albert (1901–1996)

Burma Air Campaign (1941–1942)

Burma Road

Burma Theater (1941–1945)

Burns, Eedson Louis Millard (1897–1985)

Burress, Withers Alexander (1894–1977)

Busch, Ernst (1885–1945)

Bush, Vannevar (1890–1974)

Byrnes, James Francis (1879–1972)

C

Cairo Conference (23–26 November and 3–7 December 1943)

Calabria, Battle of (9 July 1940)

Callaghan, Daniel Judson (1890–1942)

Camm, Sir Sydney (1893–1966)

Camouflage

Campioni, Inigo (1878–1944)

Canada, Air Force

Canada, Army

Canada, Navy

Canada, Role in the War

Canaris, Wilhelm Franz (1887–1945)

Cape Esperance, Battle of (11–12 October 1942)

Cape Matapan, Battle of (28 March 1941)

Cape St. George, Battle of (25 November 1943)

Capra, Frank (1897–1991)

Carlson, Evans Fordyce (1896–1947)

Carol II, King of Romania (1893–1953)

Caroline Islands Campaign (15 February–25 November 1944)

Carpet Bombing

Carrier Raids, U.S. (January–March 1942)

Carton de Wiart, Sir Adrian (1880–1963)

Casablanca Conference (14–24 January 1943)

Cash-and-Carry (November 1939)

Cassino/Rapido River, Battles of (1944)

Casualties

catapult, Operation (July 1940)

Catholic Church and the War

Catroux, Georges Albert Julien (1877–1969)

Caucasus Campaign (22 July 1942–February 1943)

Cavagnari, Domenico (1876–1966)

Cavallero, Ugo (Conte) (1880–1943)

Cavalry, Horse

Censorship

Central Pacific Campaign

Cephalonia Island

Chaffee, Adna Romanza, Jr. (1884–1941)

Chamberlain, Arthur Neville (1869–1940)

Channel Dash (11–13 February 1942)

Chaplains

Charities

Chemical Weapons and Warfare

Chen Cheng (Ch'en Ch'eng) (1898–1965)

Chen Yi (Ch'en Yi/Ch'en I) (1901–1972)

Chennault, Claire Lee (1893–1958)

Cherbourg, Capture of (June 1944)

Chernyakhovsky, Ivan Danilovich (1906–1945)

Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917–1992)

Chevallerie, Kurt von der (1891–1945)

Children and the War

China, Air Force

China, Army

China, Civil War in (1945–1949)

China, Eastern Campaign (April–November 1944)

China, Navy

China, Role in War

China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater

Chindits

Cho Isamu (1895–1945)

Choltitz, Dietrich von (1894–1966)

Christian X, King of Denmark (1870–1947)

Christie, John Walter (1865–1944)

Christie, Ralph Waldo (1893–1987)

Chuikov, Vasily Ivanovich (1900–1982)

Churchill, Sir Winston L. S. (1874–1965)

Churchill-Stalin Meeting(tolstoy)

Chynoweth, Bradford Grethen (1890–1985)

Ciano, Galeazzo (Conte di Cortellazo) (1903–1944)

Clark, Mark Wayne (1896–1984)

Clark Field, Japanese Raid on (8 December 1941)

Clay, Lucius DuBignon (1897–1978)

Coast Defense

cobra, Operation

Cochran, Jacqueline (ca. 1906–1980)

Cockleshell Heroes (6–12 December 1942)

Cold War, Origins and Early Course of

Collaboration

Collins, Joseph Lawton (1896–1987)

Collishaw, Raymond (1893–1976)

Colmar Pocket, Battle for the (20 January–9 February 1945)

Combat Fatigue

Combined Chiefs of Staff

Commando Order (18 October 1942)

Commandos/Rangers

Commerce Raiders, Surface, German

Commissar Order (13 May 1941)

Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (1940–1941)

compass, Operation

Concentration Camps, German (1933–1945)

Coningham, Sir Arthur "Mary" (1895–1948)

Conolly, Richard Lansing (1892–1962)

Conscientious Objector (CO)

Conscript Labor

Convoy PQ 17 (27 June–7 July 1943)

Convoys, Allied

Convoys, Axis

Convoys SC.122 and HX.229, Battle of (14–20 March 1943)

Coral Sea, Battle of the (7–8 May 1942)

Corap, André Georges (1879–1953)

Corregidor, Battle of (April–May 1942)

Corsica, Recapture of (8 September–4 October 1943)

Cota, Norman Daniel "Dutch" (1893–1971)

Counterintelligence

Crace, Sir John Gregory (1887–1968)

Crerar, Henry Duncan Graham (1888–1965)

Crete, Battle of (May 1941)

Crete, Naval Operations Off (21 May–1 June 1941)

Crimea Campaign (April–May 1944)

Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford (1889–1952)

Crutchley, Sir Victor Alexander Charles (1893–1986)

Cunningham, Sir Alan Gordon (1887–1983)

Cunningham, Sir Andrew Browne (First Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope)

Cunningham, Sir John Henry Dacres (1885–1962)

Cunningham, Winfield S. (1900–1986)

Currie, Lauchlin (1902–1993)

Curtin, John Joseph (1885–1945)

Czechoslovakia

D

Da Zara, Alberto (1889–1951)

Dai Li (Tai Li) (1896–1946)

Dakar, Attack on (23–25 September 1940)

Daladier, Édouard (1884–1970)

Darby, William O. (1911–1945)

Darlan, Jean Louis Xavier François (1881–1942)

Darwin, Raid on (19 February 1942)

Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Jr. (1912–2002)

Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Sr. (1877–1970)

De Bono, Emilio (1866–1944)

de Gaulle, Charles (1890–1970)

De Guingand, Sir Francis Wilfred (1900–1979)

De Havilland, Sir Geoffrey (1882–1965)

de Seversky, Alexander Procofieff (1894–1974)

Deception

Declaration on Liberated Europe (February 1945)

Degrelle, Léon (1906–1993)

Del Valle, Pedro Augusto (1893–1978)

Delestraint, Charles Georges Antoine (1879–1945)

Dempsey, Miles Christopher (1896–1969)

Denmark, Role in War

Denmark Campaign (9 April 1940)

Dentz, Henri Fernand (1881–1945)

Depth Charges

Destroyers

Destroyers-Bases Deal (2 September 1940)

Devereux, James P. S. (1903–1988)

Devers, Jacob Loucks (1887–1979)

Dewey, Thomas Edmund (1902–1971)

Dhistomo Massacre (10 June 1944)

Diégo-Suarez (5–7 March 1942)

Diégo-Suarez, Raid on (30 May 1942)

Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942)

Dietl, Eduard (1890–1944)

Dietrich, Josef "Sepp" (1892–1966)

Dill, Sir John Greer (1881–1944)

Displaced Persons (DPs)

Dixie Mission to Yan'an (Yenan) (July 1944–March 1947)

Dodecanese Islands

Doihara Kenji (1883–1948)

Dollman, Friedrich (1882–1944)

Dönitz, Karl (1891–1980)

Donovan, William Joseph (1883–1959)

Doolittle, James Harold "Jimmy" (1896–1993)

Doorman, Karel Willem Frederik Marie (1889–1942)

Dorman-Smith, Eric "Chink" (1895–1969)

Dornberger, Walter Robert (1895–1980)

Douglas, William Sholto (First Baron Douglas of Kirtleside) (1893–1969)

Douhet, Giulio (1869–1930)

Dowding, Sir Hugh Caswall Tremenheere (First Baron Dowding) (1882–1970)

downfall, Operation

dragoon, Operation

Dresden, Air Attack on (13–15 February 1945)

Driscoll, Agnes Meyer (1889–1971)

Drum, Hugh Aloysius (1879–1951)

drumbeat, Operation

Dulles, Allen Welsh (1893–1969)

Dumbarton Oaks Conference (21 August–7 October 1944)

Dunkerque, Evacuation of (dynamo)

E

Eaker, Ira Clarence (1896–1987)

East Africa Campaign (January–May 1941)

Eastern Front

Eastern Solomons, Battle of the (22–25 August 1942)

Eben Emael (10–11 May 1940)

Eden, Sir Robert Anthony (First Earl of Avon) (1897–1977)

Egypt

Eichelberger, Robert Lawrence (1886–1961)

Eichmann, Karl Adolf (1906–1962)

Eicke, Theodor (1892–1943)

Einstein, Albert (1879–1955)

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890–1969)

El Alamein, Battle of (23 October–4 November 1942)

Elba, Recapture of (17–18 June 1944)

Electronic Intelligence

Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion (1943–1945)

Empress Augusta Bay, Battle of (2 November 1943)

Engineer Operations

Enigma Machine

Eniwetok, Capture of (17–22 February 1944)

Escape and Evasion (E&E)

Esteva, Jean-Pierre (1880–1951)

Estonia

F

Falaise-Argentan Pocket (August 1944)

Falkenhorst, Nikolaus von (1885–1968)

Fechteler, William Morrow (1896–1967)

Fedorenko, Yakov Nikolayevich (1896–1947)

Fedyuninsky, Ivan Ivanovich (1900–1977)

Fegen, Edward Stephen Fogarty (1891–1940)

Feng Yuxiang (Feng Yü-hsiang) (1882–1948)

Fermi, Enrico (1901–1954)

Festung Europa

Fight for Freedom (Century Group) (1940–1942)

Fighter Tactics

Film and the War

Finland, Air Force

Finland, Army and Navy

Finland, Role in War

Finnish-Soviet War (30 November 1939–12 March 1940) (Winter War)

Finnish-Soviet War (25 June 1941–4 September 1944) (Continuation War)

Fitch, Aubrey Wray (1883–1978)

Flamethrowers

Fleischer, Carl (1883–1942)

Fletcher, Frank Jack (1885–1973)

Flying Tigers (American Volunteer Group, AVG)

Forbes, Sir Charles Morton (1881–1960)

Forrestal, James Vincent (1892–1949)

Fort Drum (Manila Bay)

fortitude, North and South

Foulkes, Charles C. C. (1903–1969)

Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine Bridou (1909–1989)

France, Air Force

France, Army

France, Battle for (10 May–11 July 1940)

France Campaign (1944)

Franco, Francisco (1892–1975)

Franco-Thai War (November 1940–January 1941)

Fraser, Bruce Austin (First Baron Fraser of North Cape) (1888–1981)

Fredendall, Lloyd Ralston (1883–1963)

Frederick, Robert Tryon (1907–1970)

Frenay, Henri (1905–1988)

French Indochina

Freyberg, Bernard Cyril (1889–1963)

Frick, Wilhelm (1877–1946)

Friedeburg, Hans Georg von (1895–1945)

Friessner, Johannes (1892–1971)

Fritsch, Werner Thomas Ludwig von (Baron) (1880–1939)

Frogmen

Fromm, Friedrich (1888–1945)

Frost, John Dutton (1912–1993)

Fuchida Mitsuo (1902–1976)

Fukutome Shigeru (1891–1971)

Fuller, John Frederick Charles (1878–1964)

Fushimi Hiroyasu, Imperial Prince (1872–1946)

G

Galland, Adolf (1912–1996)

Gallery, Daniel Vincent, Jr. (1901–1977)

Gamelin, Maurice Gustave (1872–1958)

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869–1948)

Garand, John Cantius (1883–1967)

Gavin, James Maurice (1907–1990)

Gazala, Battle of (26 May–13 June 1942)

Gehlen, Reinhard (1902–1979)

Geiger, Roy Stanley (1885–1947)

Genda Minoru (1904–1989)

George VI, King of England (1895–1952)

Georges, Alphonse Joseph (1875–1951)

German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact (23 August 1939)

German-Soviet Peace Feelers

Germany, Air Force

Germany, Army

Germany, Collapse of (March–May 1945)

Germany, Home Front

Germany, Navy

Germany, Occupation of, after the War

Germany, Surrender of (8 May 1945)

Gerow, Leonard Townsend (1888–1972)

Ghormley, Robert Lee (1883–1958)

GI Bill (22 June 1944)

Gibbs, William Francis (1886–1967)

Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918–1944)

Giffen, Robert Carlisle "Ike" (1886–1962)

Gilbert Islands Campaign (November 1943)

Giraud, Henri Honoré (1879–1949)

Glide Bombs

Glubb, Sir John Bagot (1897–1986)

Godfrey, John Henry (1888–1971)

Godfroy, René Émile (1885–1981)

Goebbels, Paul Joseph (1897–1945)

Goerdeler, Carl Friedrich (1884–1945)

Golikov, Filip Ivanovich (1900–1980)

goodwood, Operation

Göring, Hermann Wilhelm (1893–1946)

Gorshkov, Sergei Georgievich (1910–1988)

Gott, William Henry Ewart "Strafer" (1897–1942)

Govorov, Leonid Aleksandrovich (1897–1955)

Graziani, Rodolfo (Marchese di Neghelli) (1882–1955)

Great Britain, Air Force

Great Britain, Army

Great Britain, Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS)

Great Britain, Home Front

Great Britain, Navy

Great Britain, Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)

Great Britain, Women's Land Army (WLA)

Great Britain, Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS)

Great Purges (USSR)

Greater East Asia Conference (5–6 November 1943)

Grechko, Andrey Antonovich (1903–1976)

Greece Campaign (28 October 1940–March 1941)

Greece Campaign (April 1941)

Greer, Attack on (4 September 1941)

Greim, Robert Ritter von (1892–1945)

Grew, Joseph Clark (1880–1965)

Griswold, Oscar Woolverton (1886–1959)

Grizodubova, Valentina Stepanovna (1910–1993)

Groves, Leslie Richard (1896–1970)

Gruenther, Alfred Maximilian (1899–1983)

Guadalcanal, Land Battle for (August 1942–February 1943)

Guadalcanal Naval Campaign (August 1942–February 1943)

Guam, Battle for (21 July–10 August 1944)

Guandong (Kwantung) Army

Guderian, Heinz (1888–1953)

Guernica, Kondor Legion Attack on (26 April 1937)

Guisan, Henri (1874–1960)

Gustav Gun

Gyro Gun Sight

H

Haakon VII, King of Norway (1872–1957)

Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (1892–1975)

Halder, Franz (1884–1972)

Hall, Charles Philip (1886–1953)

Halsey, William Frederick, Jr. (1882–1959)

Hamburg, Raids on (24 July–3 August 1943)

Hanaya Tadashi (1894–1957)

Hand Grenades

Harmon, Ernest Nason (1894–1979)

Harpe, Josef (1887–1968)

Harriman, William Averell (1891–1986)

Harris, Sir Arthur Travers (1892–1984)

Hart, Thomas Charles (1877–1971)

Hartmann, Erich Alfred (1922–1993)

Harwood, Sir Henry (1888–1950)

Hasbrouck, Robert Wilson (1896–1985)

Hashimoto Kingoro (1890–1957)

Hashimoto Mochitsura (1909–2000)

Haushofer, Karl Ernst (1869–1946)

Hausser, Paul "Papa" (1880–1972)

He Long (Ho Lung) (1896–1969)

He Yingqin (Ho Ying-ch'in) (1890–1987)

Heinrichs, Axel Erik (1890–1965)

Heinrici, Gotthard (1886–1971)

Heisenberg, Werner (1901–1976)

Helicopters

Hell Ships (1944–1945)

Hermann, Hans-Joachim (Hajo) (1918–)

Hershey, Lewis Blaine (1893–1977)

Hess, Walter Richard Rudolf (1894–1987)

Hewitt, Henry Kent (1887–1972)

Heydrich, Reinhard Tristan Eugen (1904–1942)

Higashikuni Naruhiko, Prince of Japan (1887–1990)

Higgins, Andrew Jackson (1886–1952)

Higuchi Kiichiro (1888–1970)

Himmler, Heinrich (1900–1945)

Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1901–1989)

Hiroshima, Bombing of (6 August 1945)

Hirota Koki (1878–1948)

Hitler, Adolf (1889–1945)

Hitler-Franco Meeting at Hendaye (23 October 1940)

Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969)

Hobart, Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley (1885–1957)

Hobby, Oveta Culp (1905–1995)

Hodges, Courtney Hicks (1887–1966)

Hoepner, Erich (1886–1944)

Hoge, William Morris (1894–1979)

Holcomb, Thomas (1879–1965)

Holland, Lancelot Ernest (1887–1941)

Hollandia, Battle of (22–26 April 1944)

Holocaust, The

Homma Masaharu (1887–1946)

Honda Masaki (1889–1964)

Hong Kong, Battle of (8–25 December 1941)

Hopkins, Harry Lloyd (1890–1946)

Hore-Belisha, Isaac Leslie (First Baron Hore-Belisha) (1893–1957)

Hori Eizo (1913–1995)

Horii Tomitaro (1890–1942)

Horrocks, Sir Brian Gwynne (1895–1985)

Horthy de Nagybánya, Miklós (1868–1957)

Horton, Sir Max Kennedy (1883–1951)

Hosogaya (Hosokaya) Boshiro (1888–1964)

Hossbach, Friedrich (1894–1980)

Hoth, Hermann (1885–1971)

Hu Zongnan (Hu Tsung-nan) (1896–1962)

Huebner, Clarence Ralph (1888–1972)

Hull, Cordell (1871–1955)

Hunter, Charles Newton (1906–1978)

Hunter-Killer Groups

Huntziger, Charles Léon Clément (1880–1941)

Hürtgen Forest Campaign (12 September–16 December 1944)

Hyakutake Haruyashi (1888–1947)

I

Iachino, Angelo (1889–1976)

Iba Field, Attack on (8 December 1941)

ichi-go Campaign

Ichiki Kiyonao (1892–1942)

Identification, Friend or Foe (IFF)

I-400-Class Japanese Submarine

Iida Shojiro (1888–1975)

Ijuin Matsuji (1893–1944)

Ilyushin, Sergei Vladimirovich (1894–1977)

Imamura Hitoshi (1886–1968)

Imphal and Kohima, Sieges of (March–July 1944)

Incendiary Bombs and Bombing

India

Indian Ocean, Japanese Naval Operations in (March–May 1942)

Indianapolis, Sinking of (July–August 1945)

Infantry Tactics

Ingersoll, Royal Eason (1883–1976)

Ingram, Jonas Howard (1886–1952)

Inouye (Inoue) Shigeyoshi (1889–1975)

International Military Tribunal: Far East (Tokyo War Crimes Trials)

International Military Tribunal: The Nuremberg Trials

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Ironside, Sir William Edmund (First Baron Ironside) (1880–1959)

Ishiwara Kanji (1889–1949)

Ismay, Hastings Lionel (First Baron Ismay of Wormington) (1887–1965)

Isogai Rensuke (1883–1967)

Itagaki Seishiro (1885–1948)

Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1936)

Italy, Air Force

Italy, Army

Italy, Home Front (1940–1945)

Italy, Navy

Italy Campaign (1943–1945)

Ito Seiichi (1890–1945)

Iwabuchi Sanji (1893–1945)

Iwakuro Hideo (1897–1970)

Iwo Jima, Battle for (19 February–26 March 1945)

J

Jány, Gusztáv (1883–1947)

Japan, Air Forces

Japan, Army

Japan, Home Front during the War

Japan, Navy

Japan, Occupation of

Japan, Official Surrender (2 September 1945)

Japan, Role in the War

Japan, Surrender of (15 August 1945)

Japanese Americans

Japanese Surrendered Personnel (JSP)

Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact (13 April 1941)

Java Sea, Battle of the (27 February 1942)

Jeep

Jeschonnek, Hans (1899–1943)

Jet and Rocket Aircraft

Jewish Resistance

Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) (1887–1975)

Jodl, Alfred (1890–1946)

Joint Chiefs of Staff

Journalism and the War

Juin, Alphonse Pierre (1888–1967)

July Bomb Plot (20 July 1944)

K

Kaiser, Henry John (1882–1967)

Kaiten

Kalinin, Recapture of (15 December 1941)

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst (1903–1946)

Kaluga, Battle of (26–30 December 1941)

Kamikaze

Kammhuber, Josef (1896–1986)

Kan'in Kotohito, Imperial Prince of Japan (1864–1945)

Kasserine Pass, Battle of (14–22 February 1943)

Kato Takeo (1903–1942)

Katyn Forest Massacre (1940)

Kawabe Masakazu (1886–1965)

Kawabe Torashiro (1890–1960)

Kawaguchi Kiyotake (1892–1961)

Kearny, Torpedoing of (17 October 1941)

Keitel, Wilhelm (1882–1946)

Kenney, George Churchill (1889–1977)

Kerr, Philip Henry (Eleventh Marquess of Lothian, Lord Lothian) (1882–1940)

Kesselring, Albert (1885–1960)

Keyes, Geoffrey (1888–1967)

Keyes, Roger John Brownlow (First Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover)(1872–1945)

Kharkov, Battle for (1–14 March 1943)

Khozin, Mikhail Semenovich (1896–1979)

Kiev Pocket, Battle of the (21 August–26 September 1941)

Kimmel, Husband Edward (1882–1968)

Kimura Heitaro (1888–1948)

Kimura Masatomi (1891–1960)

King, Edward Postell, Jr. (1884–1958)

King, Ernest Joseph (1878–1956)

King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874–1950)

Kinkaid, Thomas Cassin (1888–1972)

Kirk, Alan Goodrich (1888–1963)

Kleist, Paul Ludwig Ewald von (1881–1954)

Kluge, Günther Adolf Ferdinand von (1882–1944)

Knox, William Franklin "Frank" (1874–1944)

Knudsen, William S. (also Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen) (1879–1948)

Koenig, Marie Pierre Joseph François (1898–1970)

Koga Mineichi (1885–1944)

Koiso Kuniaki (1880–1950)

Kokoda Trail Campaign (July 1942–January 1943)

Köln (Cologne), Raid on (30–31 May 1942)

Kolombangara, Battle of (13 July 1943)

Komandorski Islands, Battle of the (26 March 1943)

Komatsubara Michitaro (1886–1940)

Komura Keizo (1896–1978)

Kondo Nobutake (1886–1953)

Kondor Legion

Konev, Ivan Stepanovich (1897–1973)

Konoe Fumimaro, Prince of Japan (1891–1946)

Korea

Korsun Pocket, Battle of the (25 January–17 February 1944)

Kozhedub, Ivan Nikitovich (1920–1991)

Krebs, Hans (1898–1945)

Kretschmer, Otto August Wilhelm (1912–1998)

Krueger, Walter (1881–1967)

Küchler, Georg von (1881–1968)

Kula Gulf, Battle of (6 July 1943)

Kuribayashi Tadamichi (1891–1945)

Kurita Takeo (1889–1977)

Kursk, Battle of (5–13 July 1943)

Kusaka Ryuosuke (1892–1971)

Kuznetsov, Nikolai Gerasimovich (1904–1974)

Kwajalein, Battle for (19 January–6 February 1944)

L

Laborde, Jean Joseph (Comte de) (1878–1977)

Landing Craft

Langsdorff, Hans Wilhelm (1890–1939)

Laon, Battle of (17–19 May 1940)

Latin America and the War

Lattre de Tassigny, Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de (1889–1952)

Latvia

Laval, Pierre (1883–1945)

Leahy, William Daniel (1875–1959)

Leclerc, Jacques Philippe (Count Philippe de Hauteclocque) (1902–1947)

Lee, John Clifford Hodges (1887–1958)

Lee, William Carey (1895–1948)

Lee, Willis Augustus "Ching" (1888–1945)

Leeb, Wilhelm Franz Josef Ritter von (1876–1956)

Leese, Sir Oliver William Hargreaves (1894–1978)

Legentilhomme, Paul Louis (1884–1975)

Leigh Light

Leigh-Mallory, Sir Trafford L. (1892–1944)

LeMay, Curtis Emerson (1906–1990)

Lend-Lease

Leningrad, Siege of (10 July 1941–27 January 1944)

Lent, Helmut (1918–1944)

Léopold III, King of Belgium (1901–1983)

Leyte, Landings on and Capture of (20 October–25 December 1944)

Leyte Gulf, Battle of (23–26 October 1944)

Li Kenong (Li K'o-nung) (1899–1962)

Li Zongren (Li Tsung-jen) (1891–1969)

Liberty Ships

Liddell Hart, Sir Basil Henry (1895–1970)

Lidice Massacre (9–10 June 1942)

Lighter-than-Air Craft

Lin Biao (Lin Piao) (1907–1971)

Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902–1974)

Lindemann, Frederick Alexander (Viscount Cherwell, Lord Cherwell) (1886–1957)

List, Siegmund Wilhelm Walter (1880–1971)

Literature of World War II

Lithuania

Litviak, Lidiia (Lilia or Liliia) Vladimirovna (1921–1943)

Lockwood, Charles Andrew, Jr. (1890–1967)

Logistics, Allied

Logistics, Axis

Löhr, Alexander (1885–1947)

Lombok, Battle of (19–20 February 1942)

"Lord Haw Haw" (William Brooke Joyce) (1906–1946)

Lorraine Campaign (1 September–18 December 1944)

Louisiana Maneuvers (1941)

Love, Nancy Harkness (1914–1976)

Lovett, Robert Abercrombie (1895–1986)

Lucas, John Porter (1890–1949)

Lütjens, Günther (1889–1941)

Luxembourg

M

MacArthur, Douglas (1880–1964)

Machine Guns

Mackensen, Eberhard von (1889–1969)

Maczek, Stanislaw (1892–1994)

Madagascar

Madoera Strait, Battle of (4 February 1942)

Maginot Line

Magwe, Battle for (8–22 March 1942)

Makassar Strait, Battle of (4 February 1942)

Makin Island, Battle of (20–23 November 1943)

Makin Island Raid (17–18 August 1942)

Malaya Campaign (1941–1942)

Malinovsky, Rodion Yakovlevich (1898–1967)

Malmédy Massacre (17 December 1944)

Malta

Malta, Air Battles of (1940–1942)

Manchuria Campaign (9 August–5 September 1945)

manhattan Project

Manila, Battle for (3 February–3 March 1945)

Mannerheim, Carl Gustav Emil von (Baron) (1867–1951)

Manstein, Fritz Erich von (originally von Lewinski) (1887–1973)

Manteuffel, Hasso Eccard von (Baron) (1897–1978)

Manzhouguo (Manchukuo or Manchuria)

Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) (1893–1976)

Maquis

Marco Polo Bridge, Battle of (7 July 1937)

Mareth, Battle of (20–26 March 1943)

Mariana Islands, Naval Campaign (June–August 1944)

market-garden, Operation

Marschall, Wilhelm (1886–1976)

Marseille, Hans-Joachim (1919–1942)

Marshall, George Catlett (1880–1959)

Marshall, Samuel Lyman Atwood (1900–1977)

Marshall Islands, Naval Campaign (29 January–22 February 1944)

Martel, Sir Giffard Le Quesne (1889–1958)

Matsui Iwane (1878–1948)

Matsuoka Yosuke (1880–1946)

McAuliffe, Anthony Clement (1898–1975)

McCain, John Sidney (1884–1945)

McCloy, John Jay (1895–1989)

McConnell, John Paul (1908–1986)

McCreery, Sir Richard Loudon (1898–1967)

McGrigor, Sir Rhoderick Robert (1893–1959)

McIndoe, Sir Archibald Hector (1900–1960)

McLain, Raymond Stallings (1890–1954)

McMorris, Charles Horatio "Soc" (1890–1954)

McNair, Lesley James (1883–1944)

McNaughton, Andrew George Latta (1887–1966)

Medals and Decorations

Meiktila, Battle of (28 February–28 March 1945)

Mellenthin, Friedrich Wilhelm von (1904–1997)

Menado, Battle of (11–12 January 1942)

Menzies, Robert (1894–1978)

Meretskov, Kirill Afanasievich (1897–1968)

Merrill, Frank Dow (1903–1955)

Mersa Matrûh, Battle of (28 June 1942)

Mersa Matrûh, Battle of (7 November 1942)

Mers-el-Kébir (3 July 1940)

Messe, Giovanni (1883–1968)

Messerschmitt, Wilhelm "Willy" Emil (1898–1978)

Metaxas, Ioannis (1871–1941)

Metz, Battle of (19 September–22 November 1944)

Mexico

Meyer, Kurt (1910–1961)

Middleton, Troy Houston (1889–1976)

Midway, Battle of (3–6 June 1942)

Mihajlovic, Dragoljub "Draza" (1893–1946)

Mikawa Gunichi (1888–1981)

Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw (1901–1966)

Milch, Erhard (1892–1972)

Military Medicine

Military Organization

Milne Bay, Battle of (25 August–6 September 1942)

Minakami Genzo (1888–1944)

Minesweeping and Minelaying (Sea)

Minsk, Battle for (27 June–9 July 1941)

Mitscher, Marc Andrew (1887–1947)

Miyazaki Shigesaburo (1892–1965)

Model, Walther (1891–1945)

Mölders, Werner (1913–1941)

Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (1890–1986)

Monnet, Jean Omer Marie Gabriel (1888–1979)

Montélimar, Battle of (21–28 August 1944)

Montgomery, Alfred Eugene (1891–1961)

Montgomery, Sir Bernard Law (First Viscount Montgomery of Alamein) (1887–1976)

Moreell, Ben (1892–1978)

Morgan, Frederick Edgeworth (1894–1967)

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. (1891–1967)

Morison, Samuel Eliot (1887–1976)

Morshead, Sir Leslie James (1889–1959)

Mortars

Moscow, Battle of (30 September 1941-April 1942)

Moscow Conference (19–30 October 1943)

Moskalenko, Kirill Semenovich (1902–1985)

Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald (Sixth Baronet) (1896–1980)

Moulin, Jean (1899–1943)

Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas (First Earl Mountbatten)

Mulberries (Artificial Harbors)

Munich Conference and Preliminaries (1938)

Murphy, Audie Leon (1924–1971)

Muselier, Émile Henri Désiré (1882–1965)

Music of World War II

Mussolini, Benito (1883–1945)

Mutaguchi Renya (1888–1966)

Muto Akira (1892–1948)

Myitkyina, Siege of (May–August 1944)

N

Nagano Osami (1880–1947)

Nagasaki, Bombing of (9 August 1945)

Nagumo Chuichi (1886–1944)

Nakagawa Kunio (1898–1944)

Nakano School

Nanjing (Nanking) Massacre (13 December 1937–22 January 1938)

Napalm

Narvik, Naval Battles of (10 and 13 April 1940)

Narvik, Operations in and Evacuation of (24 April–7 June 1940)

Naval Armament

Naval Gunfire, Shore Support

Naval Strengths, European Theater (1 September 1939)

Naval Strengths, Pacific Theater (7 December 1941)

Naval Warfare

Neame, Sir Philip (1888–1978)

Nehring, Walther Kurt (1892–1983)

Netherlands, The

Netherlands Campaign (10–15 May 1940)

Netherlands East Indies

Netherlands East Indies, Japanese Conquest of (1942)

neuland, Operation

Neurath, Konstantin Hermann Karl von (Freiherr) (1873–1956)

New Britain, Landings (December 1943)

New Fourth Army Incident (4 January 1941)

New Georgia, Battle of (July–October 1943)

New Guinea Campaign (8 March 1942–13 September 1945)

New Zealand, Role in War

Nie Rongzhen (Nieh Jung-chen) (1899–1992)

Niemöller, Martin (1892–1984)

Nimitz, Chester William (1885–1966)

Nishi Takeichi (Baron) (1902–1945)

Nishimura Shoji (1889–1944)

Noble, Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam (1880–1955)

Noguès, Charles Auguste Paul (1876–1971)

Nomonhan/Khalhin-Gol, Battle of (May–September 1939)

Nomura Kichisaburo (1887–1964)

Norden, Carl Lukas (1880–1965)

Norden Bombsight

nordwind, Operation

Normandy Invasion (D day, 6 June 1944) and Campaign

Norstad, Lauris (1907–1988)

North Africa, Role in the War

North Africa Campaign (1940–1943)

North Cape, Battle of (26 December 1943)

Northeast Europe Theater

Norway, Air Service

Norway, Army

Norway, German Conquest of (1940)

Norway, Navy

Norway, Role in War

Novikov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1900–1976)

Nuclear Weapons

Nuri al-Said (Nuri as-Said) Pasha (1888–1958)

O

Obata Hideyoshi (1890–1944)

O'Connor, Richard Nugent (1889–1981)

O'Daniel, John Wilson (1894–1975)

Oesch, Karl (1892–1978)

Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

Oikawa Koshiro (1883–1958)

Okamura Yasuji (1884–1966)

O'Kane, Richard Hetherington (1911–1994)

Okawa Shumei (1888–1957)

Okinawa, Invasion of (iceberg)

Oktyabrsky, Filip Sergeyevich (1899–1969)

Oldendorf, Jesse Bartlett (1887–1974)

Onishi Takijiro (1891–1945)

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert (1904–1967)

Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre (10 June 1944)

Order 270

Ortona, Battle for (5–28 December 1943)

Oshima Hiroshi (1886–1975)

Österman, Hugo Viktor (1892–1972)

overlord, Operation (Planning)

Ozawa Jisaburo (1886–1966)

P

Paget, Sir Bernard Charles Tolver (1887–1961)

Palatinate Campaign (March 1945)

Palembang, Battle of (14–16 February 1942)

Panay Incident (12 December 1937)

Papagos, Alexandros (1883–1955)

Papen, Franz von (1879–1969)

Papuan Campaign (July 1942–January 1943)

Parachute Infantry

Parachutes

Paris, Liberation of (19–26 August 1944)

Paris Peace Treaties (10 February 1947)

Park, Sir Keith Rodney (1892–1975)

Parker, George Marshall, Jr. (1889–1968)

Partisans/Guerrillas

Patch, Alexander McCarrell, Jr. (1889–1945)

Pathfinders

Patrol-Torpedo Boats

Patterson, Robert Porter (1891–1952)

Pattle, Marmaduke Thomas St. John "Pat" (1914–1941)

Patton, George Smith, Jr. (1885–1945)

Paul, Prince Regent of Yugoslavia (1893–1976)

Paulus, Friedrich (1890–1957)

Pavelic, Ante (1889–1959)

Pavlov, Dimitri Grigorevich (1897–1941)

Pearl Harbor, Attack on (7 December 1941)

pedestal, Operation

Peenemünde

Peenemünde Raid (17–18 August 1943)

Peiper, Joachim (1915–1976)

Peleliu, Battle of (15 September–27 November 1944)

Peng Dehuai (P'eng Te-huai) (1898–1974)

Pentagon

Percival, Arthur Ernest (1887–1966)

Pétain, Henri Philippe (1856–1951)

Petlyakov, Vladimir Mikhailovich (1891–1942)

Petrov, Ivan Yefimovich (1896–1958)

Philippine Sea, Battle of the (19–21 June 1944)

Philippines, Japanese Capture of (8 December 1941–9 June 1942)

Philippines, Role in War

Philippines, U.S. Recapture of (20 October 1944–15 August 1945)

Phillips, Sir Tom Spencer Vaughan (1888–1941)

Photographic Reconnaissance

Pick, Lewis Andrew (1890–1956)

Pistols and Revolvers

Pius XII, Pope (1876–1958)

Placentia Bay (9–12 August 1941)

Plata, Río de la, Battle of (13 December 1939)

Ploesti, Raids on (1 August 1943–18 August 1944)

Poland, Air Force

Poland, Army

Poland, Navy

Poland, Role in the War

Poland Campaign (1939)

Poland–East Prussia Campaign (July 1944–April 1945)

Popov, Markian Mikhailovich (1902–1969)

Portal, Sir Charles Frederick Algernon (First Viscount Portal of Hungerford)

Portugal

Potsdam Conference (17 July–2 August 1945)

Pound, Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers (1877–1943)

Prételat, André Gaston (1874–1969)

Prien, Günther (1908–1941)

Prince of Wales and Repulse (10 December 1941)

Prisoners of War (POWs)

Propaganda

Proximity (VT) Fuse

Psychological Warfare

Puller, Lewis Burwell (1898–1971)

Pyke, Geoffrey Nathaniel (1894–1948)

Pyle, Ernest Taylor "Ernie" (1900–1945)

Q

Quebec Conference (14–24 August 1943)

Quebec Conference (12–16 September 1944)

Quesada, Elwood Richard "Pete" (1904–1993)

Quezon, Manuel Luis (1878–1944)

Quisling, Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonsson (1887–1945)

R

Rabaul

Radar

Raeder, Erich (1876–1960)

Railroads

Rainbow Plans

Ramsay, Sir Bertram Home (1883–1945)

Randolph, Asa Philip (1889–1979)

Rank Structures, Selected World War II Belligerents

Rankin, Jeannette Pickering (1880–1973)

Raskova, Marina Mikhailovna (1912–1943)

Rawalpindi, Loss of (23 November 1939)

Red Ball Express (24 August–16 November 1944)

Reeves, Joseph Mason (1872–1948)

Reichenau, Walther von (1884–1942)

Reichswald, Battle of the (8–22 February 1945)

Reinhardt, Georg Hans (1887–1963)

Reitsch, Hanna (1912–1979)

Religion and the War

Remagen Bridge, Capture of (7 March 1945)

Rendulic, Lothar (1887–1971)

Rennell Island, Battle of (29–30 January 1943)

Resistance

Reuben James, Sinking of (31 October 1941)

Reynaud, Paul (1878–1966)

Rhine Crossings (7–24 March 1945)

Rhineland, Remilitarization of (7 March 1936)

Rhineland Offensive (February–March 1945)

Ribbentrop, Ulrich Friedrich Willy Joachim von (1893–1946)

Riccardi, Arturo (1878–1966)

Richardson, Robert Charlwood, Jr. (1882–1954)

Richthofen, Wolfram von (Baron) (1895–1945)

Ridgway, Matthew Bunker (1895–1993)

Riefenstahl, Leni (1902–2003)

Rifles

Ritchie, Sir Neil Methuen (1897–1983)

Rogge, Bernhard (1899–1982)

Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich (1896–1968)

Romania Campaign (August–September 1944)

Rome, Advance on and Capture of (May–June 1944)

Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen (1891–1944)

Romulo, Carlos Peña (1899–1985)

Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (1884–1962)

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882–1945)

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. (1887–1944)

Rosenberg, Alfred (1893–1946)

Rostov, Battle for (17–30 November 1941)

Rote Kappelle

Rotmistrov, Pavel Aleksevich (1901–1982)

Rotterdam, Destruction of (14 May 1940)

roundup, Operation (1943)

Rowecki, Stefan (1895–1944)

royal marine, Operation

Royal Oak, Sinking of (14 October 1939)

Rudel, Hans-Ulrich (1916–1982)

Ruge, Otto (1882–1961)

Ruhr Campaign (25 March–18 April 1945)

Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf Gerd von (1875–1953)

Ruweisat Ridge, Battles of (1–27 July 1942)

Rydz-Smigly, Edward (1886–1941)

S

Saar, French Invasion of the (September 1939)

Saeki Shizuo (1894–1980)

Saint-Lô, Battle of (11–19 July 1944)

Saint-Nazaire, Raid on (28 March 1942)

Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Seizure of (24 December 1941)

Saipan, Battle of (15 June–9 July 1944)

Saito Yoshitsugu (1890–1944)

Sakai Saburo (1916–2000)

Sakonji Naomasa (1890–1948)

Sakurai Seizo (1889–1985)

Salazar, António de Oliveira (1889–1970)

Salerno Invasion ( avalanche)

Sano Tadayoshi (1889–1945)

Santa Cruz Islands, Battle of the (26–27 October 1942)

Sasaki Minoru (1893–1961)

Sasaki Toichi (1886–1955)

Saucken, Dietrich von (1892–1980)

Saukel, Fritz (1894–1946)

Saunders, Laverne George "Blondie" (1903–1988)

Savo Island, Battle of (9 August 1942)

Savoia, Amedeo Umberto di (Duca d'Aosta) (1898–1942)

Scheldt, Battles (October–November 1944)

Schepke, Joachim (1912–1941)

Schmid, Anton (1900–1942)

Schnaufer, Heinz Wolfgang (1922–1950)

Scholl, Hans (1918–1944); Scholl, Sophie (1921–1944)

Schörner, Ferdinand (1892–1973)

Schuschnigg, Kurt von (1897–1977)

Schweinfurt and Regensburg Raids (1943)

sea lion, Operation

Seabees

Sedan, Battle of (14 May 1940)

Sejima Ryuzo (1911– )

Selective Service Act (Burke-Wadsworth Act, September 1940)

Senger und Etterlin, Fridolin Rudolf von (1891–1963)

Sevastopol, Battle for (30 October 1941–4 July 1942)

Seyss-Inquart, Arthur (1892–1946)

Shanghai, Battle of (13 August–9 November 1937)

Shaposhnikov, Boris Mikhailovich (1882–1945)

Shepherd, Lemuel C., Jr. (1896–1990)

Sherman, Forrest Percival (1896–1951)

Sherman, Frederick Carl (1888–1957)

Shigemitsu Mamoru (1887–1957)

Shimada Shigetaro (1883–1976)

Shimada Toyosaku (1912–1988)

Shinano, Sinking of (29 November 1944)

Short, Walter Campbell (1880–1949)

Shtemenko, Sergei Matveevich (1907–1976)

Shumilov, Mikhail Stepanovich (1895–1975)

Shuttle Bombing, Soviet Union (June–August 1944)

Siberian Internment of Japanese

sichelschnitt, Operation (1940)

Sicily, Invasion of ( husky

Siegfried Line, Breaking the (October–December 1944)

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT)

Sikorski, Wladyslaw Eugeniusz (1881–1943)

Simonds, Guy Granville (1903–1974)

Simovic, Dusan (1882–1962)

Simpson, William Hood (1888–1980)

Singapore, Battle for (8–15 February 1942)

Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Sirte, First Battle of (17 December 1941)

Sirte, Second Battle of (22 March 1942)

Sittang, Battle of the (18–23 February 1942)

Sitzkrieg (4 October 1939–10 May 1940)

Skorzeny, Otto (1908–1975)

sledgehammer, Operation

Slessor, Sir John Cotesworth (1897–1979)

Slim, Sir William Joseph (First Viscount Slim) (1891–1970)

Slovik, Edward D. (1920–1945)

Smith, Holland McTyeire (1882–1967)

Smith, Julian Constable (1885–1975)

Smith, Ralph Corbett (1893–1998)

Smith, Walter Bedell (1895–1961)

Smolensk, Battle of (10 July–5 August 1941)

Smuts, Jan Christian (1870–1950)

Snipers

Sokolovsky, Vasily Danilovich (1897–1968)

Solomon Islands, Naval Campaign (August 1942–February 1943)

Somalia

Somervell, Brehon Burke (1892–1955)

Somerville, Sir James Fownes (1882–1949)

Sonar

Song Zheyuan (Sung Che-yuan) (1885–1940)

Sopwith, Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch (1888–1989)

Sorge, Richard (1895–1944)

Sosabowski, Stanislaw (1892–1967)

Sosnkowski, Kazimierz (1885–1969)

South Africa, Union of

Southeast Pacific Theater

Southwest Pacific Theater

Soviet Union, Air Force

Soviet Union, Army

Soviet Union, Home Front

Soviet Union, Navy

Soviet Women's Combat Wings (1942–1945)

Spaatz, Carl Andrew "Tooey" (1891–1974)

Spain, Civil War in (1936–1939)

Spain, Role in War (1939–1945)

Spears, Sir Edward Louis (1886–1974)

Special Operations Executive (SOE)

Speer, Albert (1905–1981)

Speidel, Hans (1897–1984)

Sperrle, Hugo Walter (1885–1953)

Spitsbergen

Sport and Athletics

Sprague, Clifton Albert Frederick (1896–1955)

Sprague, Thomas Lamison (1894–1972)

Spruance, Raymond Ames (1886–1969)

Stalin, Josef (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) (1879–1953)

Stalingrad, Battle of (23 August 1942–2 February 1943)

Standley, William Harrison (1872–1963)

Stark, Harold Raynsford "Betty" (1880–1972)

starvation, Operation

Stauffenberg, Claus Philip Schenk von (Graf) (1907–1944)

Steiner, Felix (1896–1966)

Steinhoff, Johannes (1913–1994)

Stephenson, Sir William Samuel (1896–1989)

Stettinius, Edward Reilly, Jr. (1900–1949)

Stilwell, Joseph Warren (1883–1946)

Stimson, Henry Lewis (1867–1950)

Stirling, Sir Archibald David (1915–1990)

strangle, Operation

Strategic Bombing

Stratemeyer, George Edward (1890–1969)

Stroop, Joseph (Jürgen) (1895–1952)

Student, Kurt (1890–1978)

Stülpnagel, Karl Heinrich von (1886–1944)

Stülpnagel, Otto von (1878–1948)

Stump, Felix Budwell (1894–1972)

Submachine Guns

Submarines

Submarines, Midget

Sugihara Chiune (1900–1986)

Sugiyama Hajime (1880–1945)

Sultan, Daniel Isom (1885–1947)

Sun Liren (Sun Li-jen) (1900–1990)

Sunda Strait, Battle of (28 February–1 March 1942)

Suomussalmi, Battle of (7 December 1939–8 January 1940)

Sutherland, Richard Kerens (1893–1966)

Suzuki Kantaro (1867–1948)

Suzuki Sosaku (1891–1945)

Suzuki Tei'ichi (1887–1989)

Sweden

Swift, Innis Palmer (1882–1953)

Swing, Joseph May (1894–1984)

Switzerland

Sydney, Japanese Raid on (31 May 1942)

Syria

Syria and Lebanon, Campaign in (8 June–14 July 1941)

Szabo, Violette Bushnell (1921–1945)

T

Taiwan (Formosa)

Takagi Sokichi (1893–1979)

Takagi Takeo (1892–1944)

Takamatsu Nobuhito, Imperial Prince of Japan (1905–1987)

Tanaka Giichi (Baron) (1864–1929)

Tanaka Raizo (1892–1969)

Tanaka Shinichi (1893–1976)

Tanaka Shizuichi (1887–1945)

Tank, Kurt (1898–1983)

Tanks, All Powers

Taranto, Attack on (11 November 1940)

Tarawa, Battle of (20–24 November 1943)

Tassafaronga, Battle of (30 November 1942)

Taylor, Maxwell Davenport (1901–1987)

Tedder, Sir Arthur William (First Baron Tedder) (1890–1967)

Tehran Conference (28 November–1 December 1943)

Templer, Sir Gerald Walter Robert (1898–1979)

Terauchi Hisaichi (Count) (1879–1946)

Theobald, Robert Alfred (1884–1957)

Thierry d'Argenlieu, Georges Louis Marie (1889–1964)

Thoma, Wilhelm Ritter von (1891–1948)

Timoshenko, Semen Konstantinovich (1895–1970)

Tinian, U.S. Invasion of (24 July–1 August 1944)

Tirpitz, Attacks on (1941–1944)

Tiso, Jozef (1887–1947)

Tito (born Broz, Josip) (1892–1980)

Tizard, Sir Henry Thomas (1885–1959)

Tobruk, First Battle for (6–22 January 1941)

Tobruk, Second Battle for (April 1941–January 1942)

Tobruk, Third Battle of (20–21 June 1942)

Todt, Fritz (1891–1942)

Todt Organization (OT)

Togo Shigenori (1882–1950)

Tojo Hideki (1884–1948)

Tokyo, Bombing of (18 April 1942)

Tokyo, Bombing of (9–10 March 1945)

"Tokyo Rose" (Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino) (1916– )

Tolbukhin, Fedor Ivanovich (1894–1949)

torch, Operation

Torpedoes

Toulon, Scuttling of French Fleet at (27 November 1942)

Tovey, Sir John Cronyn (1885–1971)

Towers, John Henry (1885–1955)

Toyoda Soemu (1885–1957)

Trident Conference (15–25 May 1943)

Tripartite Pact (27 September 1940)

Truk

Truman, Harry S (1884–1972)

Truscott, Lucian King, Jr. (1895–1965)

Tsuji Masanobu (1902–ca. 1968)

Tukhachevsky, Mikhail Nikolayevich (1893–1937)

Tulagi Island, Battle of (7–8 August 1942)

Tunis, Battle of (3–13 May 1943)

Tunisia Campaign (1943)

Tunner, William Henry (1906–1983)

Tupolev, Andrei Nikolaevich (1888–1972)

Turing, Alan Mathison (1912–1954)

Turkey

Turner, Richmond Kelly (1885–1961)

Tuskegee Airmen

Twining, Nathan Farragut (1897–1982)

Two-Ocean Navy Program

U

Udet, Ernst (1896–1941)

Ugaki Matome (1890–1945)

Ukraine Campaign (November 1943–July 1944)

Umberto II, King of Italy (1904–1983)

Umezu Yoshijiro (1882–1949)

Unarmored Vehicles

Unconditional Surrender

Unit 731, Japanese Army

United Nations, Declaration (1 January 1942)

United Nations, Formation of

United States, Army

United States, Army Air Forces

United States, Coast Guard

United States, Home Front

United States, Marine Corps

United States, Navy

United States, Submarine Campaign against Japanese Shipping (1941–1945)

United States, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES)

United States, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs)

United States, Women's Army Corps (WAC, Formerly WAAC)

United States, Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron

United States, Women's Land Army (WLA)

Upham, Charles (1908–1994)

Urquhart, Robert Elliot (1901–1988)

Ushijima Mitsuru (1887–1945)

Ustinov, Dmitry Fedorovich (1908–1984)

V

Vandegrift, Alexander Archer (1887–1973)

Vandenberg, Hoyt Sanford (1899–1954)

Vasilevsky, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1895–1977)

Vatutin, Nikolai Fedorovich (1901–1944)

Vella Gulf, Battle of (6–7 August 1943)

Vella Lavella, Land Battle of (15 August–7 October 1943)

Vella Lavella, Naval Battle of (6–7 October 1943)

Vereker, John Standish Surtees Pendergast (Sixth Viscount Gort, Lord Gort)

Vian, Sir Philip Louis (1894–1968)

Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (1869–1947)

Vietinghoff genannt Scheel, Heinrich Gottfried von (1887–1952)

Visconti-Prasca, Sebastiano (1883–1961)

Vlasov, Andrei Andreyevich (1901–1946)

V-1 Buzz Bomb

Voronov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1899–1968)

Vörös, János (1891–1968)

Voroshilov, Kliment Efremovich (1881–1969)

Vosges, Advance to (29 August–15 September 1944)

V-2 Rocket

Vyazma-Bryansk, Battle for (2–20 October 1941)

W

Wachi Takaji (1893–1978)

Waesche, Russell R. (1886–1946)

Waffen-SS (Schutzstaffel)

Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew (1883–1953)

Wakabayashi Toichi (1912–1943)

Wake Island, Battle for (8–23 December 1941)

Walker, Frederick John (1896–1944)

Walker, Walton Harris (1889–1950)

Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887–1979)

Wang Jingwei (Wang Ching-wei) (1883–1944)

Wannsee Conference (20 January 1942)

Warlimont, Walter (1894–1976)

Warsaw, Battle of (8–27 September 1939)

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943)

Warsaw Rising (1 August–2 October 1944)

Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander (1892–1973)

Wavell, Sir Archibald Percival (First Earl) (1883–1950)

Wedemeyer, Albert Coady (1897–1989)

Wei Lihuang (Wei Li-huang) (1897–1960)

Weichs zur Glon, Maximilian Maria Joseph von (Baron) (1881–1954)

Welles, Benjamin Sumner (1892–1961)

weserübung, Operation

West Wall, Advance to the (17 August–10 September 1944)

Western European Theater of Operations

Westphal, Siegfried (1902–1982)

Wever, Walter (1887–1936)

Weygand, Maxime (1867–1965)

Weyland, Otto Paul (1902–1979)

White, Isaac Davis (1901–1990)

White, Thomas Dresser (1901–1965)

White Rose

Whittle, Sir Frank (1907–1996)

Wilhelm Gustloff (German Ship)

Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands (1880–1962)

Wilhelmshaven, Raid on (11 June 1943)

Wilkinson, Theodore Stark "Ping" (1888–1946)

Willkie, Wendell Lewis (1892–1944)

Willoughby, Charles Adolphe (1892–1972)

Wilson, Henry Maitland (First Baron of Libya and Stowlangtoft) (1881–1964)

Windsor, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David (Duke of)

Wingate, Orde Charles (1903–1944)

Winkelman, Henri Gerard (1876–1952)

Witzleben, Erwin von (1881–1944)

Wöhler, Otto (1894–1987)

Wolf Pack

Wolff, Karl (1900–1984)

Women in World War II

Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley (First Earl of Halifax) (1881–1959)

X

Xi'an (Sian) Incident (12 December 1936)

Xu Xiangqian (Hsu Hsung-ch'ien) (1901–1990)

Y

Yahara Hiromichi (1902–1981)

Yalta Conference (4–11 February 1945)

Yamada Otozo (1881–1965)

Yamaguchi Tamon (1892–1942)

Yamamoto, U.S. Ambush of (18 April 1943)

Yamamoto Isoroku (1884–1943)

Yamashita Tomoyuki (1885–1946)

Yamato (Japanese Battleship)

Yamato, Suicide Sortie of (6–7 April 1945)

Yan Xishan (Yen Hsi-shan) (1883–1960)

Yanagawa Heisuke (1879–1945)

Yang Hucheng (Yang Hu-ch'eng) (1893–1949)

Ye Jianying (Yeh Chien-ying) (1897–1986)

Ye Ting (Yeh T'ing) (1896–1946)

Yenangyaung, Battle of (10–19 April 1942)

Yeremenko, Andrei Ivanovich (1892–1970)

Yokoyama Shizuo (1890–1961)

Yonai Mitsumasa (1880–1948)

Yoshida Shigeru (1878–1967)

Yoshida Zengo (1885–1966)

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia Campaign (1941)

Yugoslavia Campaign (1944–1945)

Z

Z Plan

Zeitzler, Kurt von (1895–1963)

Zhang Fakui (Chang Fa-k'uei) (1896–1980)

Zhang Xueliang (Chang Hsüeh-liang) (1901–2001)

Zhanggufeng (Chang-ku-feng)/Khasan, Battle of (29 July–11 August 1938)

Zhou Enlai (Chou En-lai) (1898–1976)

Zhu De (Chu Teh) (1886–1976)

Zhukov, Georgii Konstantinovich (1896–1974)

Documents Prior to 1938

Benito Mussolini (and Giovanni Gentile), "What Is Fascism?"

Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations: Telegram from Count Yasuya Ichida

German Law on Military Service, 16 March 1935

The Soviet Union Embraces the Popular Front

The United States Neutrality Act, 31 August 1935

Benito Mussolini, "A Call to Arms," Speech to His Followers, 2 October 1935

President Roosevelt, Statement Imposing an Arms Embargo on Ethiopia and Italy

The Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship and Race

The United States Neutrality Act, 29 February 1936

German Memorandum Respecting the Termination of the Treaty of Locarno

The Anti-Comintern Pact

Resolution of the League of Nations Council on Spain, 12 December 1936

Joint Congressional Resolution Prohibiting Exports of Arms to Spain

The United States Neutrality Act, 1 May 1937

The Sino-Japanese War Begins: The Japanese Embassy to the U.S.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech, 5 October 1937

The Hossbach Memorandum, Berlin, 10 November 1937

President Roosevelt, Message to the Congress, 28 January 1938

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, To Leaders of Czechoslavokia and Germany

Agreement Concluded at Munich, between Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy

Neville Chamberlain, "Peace for Our Time," 30 September 1938

1939 Documents

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to the U.S. Congress, 12 January 1939

The Western Guarantee of Polish Independence

Adolf Hitler, Directive for "Operation WHITE"

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Adolf Hitler, 22 August 1939

The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 23 August 1939–10 January 1941

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Telegram to the Chancellor of Germany

Benito Mussolini to Adolf Hitler, 25 August 1939

Message to Sir Nevile Henderson by Joachim von Ribbentrop, 31 August 1939

Clare Hollingworth, The German Invasion of Poland, 30 August–1 September 1939

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Speech in British House of Commons

Telegram from the British Foreign Secretary to the British Ambassador at Berlin

German Reply to the British Ultimatum, 3 September 1939

French Premier Édouard Daladier, Statement to the Nation, 3 September 1939

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Radio Address, 3 September 1939

Declaration of the Governments of the German Reich and USSR, 28 September 1939

The Declaration of Panama

Franklin D. Roosevelt to Albert Einstein, 19 October 1939

Heinrich Himmler, Order to the Members of the German SS and Police

The "Cash-and-Carry" United States Neutrality Act, 4 November 1939

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Statement on Finland, 1 December 1939

1940 Documents

Benito Mussolini, "Speech on War Entry," 10 June 1940

Armistice Agreement between the German High Command and French Plenipotentiaries

Memorandum Describing Methods of Obstructing the Granting of U.S. Visas

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to the Congress, 10 July 1940

Declaration on Cooperation for the Defense of the Nations of the Americas

Count Joachim von Ribbentrop to Otto Abetz

United States National Defense Advisory Commission Directive

The Destroyers-for-Bases Deal

The Selective Service Act, 16 September 1940

Three-Power (Tripartite) Pact between Germany, Italy, and Japan

Statement from Japanese Ambassor to the Secretary of State, 8 October 1940

Memorandum for the Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, 12 November 1940

"The Arsenal of Democracy": Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat

1941 Documents

"The Four Freedoms": President Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address

Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yosuke, Cable Number 44

The Lend-Lease Act, 11 March 1941

"Draft Understanding," Paper Presented to the Department of State

Text of the U.S.-Danish Agreement on Greenland, 9 April 1941

Pact of Neutrality between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Proclamation of Unlimited National Emergency

Hitler's Decision to Invade the Soviet Union

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8802

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress, 7 July 1941

Agreement between the UK and the USSR, 12 July 1941

Memorandum on the Japanese Occupation of Indochina, 24 July 1941

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order Freezing Japanese and Chinese Assets

Agreement between Japan and France Pledging Military Cooperation

Japanese Foreign Minister, Tokyo, Cable to Japanese Embassy, Berlin

The Atlantic Charter, 14 August 1941

White House Press Release, Statement on Sending a Military Mission to China

The "Shoot-on-Sight" Policy: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Radio Address

Inter-Allied Council Statement on the Principles of the Atlantic Charter

Cable from the Japanese Ambassador in Berlin to the Japanese Foreign Minister

Paraphrase of Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to Soviet Premier Josef Stalin

U.S. Congress Repeals the 1939 Neutrality Act

Memorandum of the Japanese Government to the U.S. Government, 6 December 1941

President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Emperor Hirohito of Japan, 6 December 1941

Memorandum of the Secretary of State with Nomura and Kurusu, 7 December 1941

Draft Japanese Declaration of War on the United States, December 1941

Adolf Hitler, Secret "Night-and-Fog Decree" on the Punishment of Offenders

"A Date Which Will Live in Infamy": Franklin D. Roosevelt

China Declares War on Japan, Germany, and Italy

German Declaration of War with the United States

1942 Documents

George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army, on U.S. Manpower in World War II

The Final Solution: The Wannsee Protocol, 20 January 1942

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order No. 9066

Anglo-American Mutual Aid Agreement, 23 February 1942

Prime Minister's War Conference, Minute 23, 1 June 1942

Agreement between the Governments of Mexico and the United States

Evan Griffith, "Appeal to Buy War Bonds," 3 August 1942

Soviet Press Release: Josef Stalin to Henry C. Cassidy

Executive Order Providing for the Stabilizing of the National Economy

President Roosevelt's Statement of a Second Front in Africa, November 1942

Enigma Codebreaking in World War II: Recollections of Edward Thomas

A. Philip Randolph, "Why Should We March?" November 1942

Extract from the Beveridge Report, December 1942

1943 Documents

General Douglas MacArthur, Communiqué Announcing the End of the Papuan Campaign

Final Declaration of the Casablanca Conference, 12 February 1943

"The Four Policemen": Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to President Roosevelt

The Zoot-Suit Riots, Los Angeles, June 1943

Statement of General Douglas MacArthur on the Capture of Munda, New Georgia

The Quebec Conference, 17–24 August 1943

Military Armistice between the Allied Powers and the Italian Government

General Douglas MacArthur's Strategy of Highly Selective "Island-Hopping"

The Fulbright and Connally Resolutions, September–November 1943

Agreement for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

The Cairo Conference Declaration, 23–25 November 1943

Declarations of the Tehran Conference, 28 November–1 December 1943

1944 Documents

The Economic Bill of Rights: President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Directive to Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force, 12 February 1944

General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area, Communiqué No. 677

General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area, Communiqué No. 691

General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area, Communiqué No. 745

General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area, Communiqué No. 780

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Order of the Day and Letter to Troops, 6 June 1944

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Statement on Signing the GI Bill of Rights

Report on Conditions in the Concentration Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau

General Dwight D. Eisenhower to General George C. Marshall, 5 July 1944

The Bretton Woods Agreements

General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area, Communiqué No. 845

The Morgenthau Plan, August 1944

The Warsaw Uprising: Telegrams among the Allied Leaders, 20–22 August 1944

General Douglas MacArthur, Radiogram, 2 September 1944

General Douglas MacArthur to Major General John Hilldring, 2 September 1944

General Dwight D. Eisenhower to General George C. Marshall, 14 September 1944

General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area, Special Communiqué,20 October 1944

General Dwight D. Eisenhower to General George C. Marshall, 11 November 1944

General Dwight D. Eisenhower to General George C. Marshall, 5 December 1944

1945 Documents

General Dwight D. Eisenhower to General George C. Marshall, 12 January 1945

The Yalta Accords, 11 February 1945

General Dwight D. Eisenhower to General George C. Marshall, 20 February 1945

President Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek), Speech, 1 March 1945

General Dwight D. Eisenhower to General George C. Marshall, 26 March 1945

Truman K. Gibson Jr., Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War, 9 April 1945

General Dwight D. Eisenhower to General George C. Marshall, 15 April 1945

President Harry S Truman, First Message to Congress, 16 April 1945

Henry L. Stimson, Memorandum with President Harry S Truman, 25 April 1945

Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, The Unconditional Surrender, 8 May 1945

Victory Order of the Day and Proclamation on Germany's Defeat, 8 May 1945

Charter of the United Nations, San Francisco, 26 June 1945

The Berlin (Potsdam) Conference, 17 July–2 August 1945

Allied Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, Potsdam, 26 July 1945

President Harry S Truman Recalls the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

Excerpt from U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report, 1 July 1946

Emperor Hirohito, Radio Broadcast on the Potsdam Declaration, August 1945

William J. Donovan to Harold D. Smith, Director, Bureau of the Budget

George C. Marshall, "Price of Victory": American Casualties in World War II

Extract from Final Biennial Report to the Secretary of War, 1 September 1945

Soviet Espionage during World War II: Robert J. Lamphere to Meredith Gardner

Images

Admiral Jean Darlan with Hermann Göring and Henri Philippe Pétain

Adolf Hitler at Nazi rally

African Americans in the Women's Army Corps

African-American female welder

African-American sailors handle munitions

African-American Seabees

Afrika Korps hanger bombed by U.S. forces

Aftermath of a desert battle

Air raid damage in London

Alexander, Harold, George S. Patton and Alan G. Kirk

Allied convoys in France

Amphibious warfare during invasion of Tinian

Andrews Sisters in Swingtime Johnny

Antiaircraft artillery

Antitank dragon's teeth along the Siegfried Line

Antonescu, Ion and Wilhelm Keitel

Anzio, Battle of

Armament production during World War II

Arnold, Henry Harley

Artillery gun on Okinawa

Atomic bomb blast

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Attlee, Clement

Australian soldier mans American tank

AVALANCHE, Operation, Salerno invasion

Axis POWs leave Tunis

Axis prisoners in Cairo, Egypt

B-17 Flying Fortress

B-29 raids against Japan

Barrage balloons during World War II

Bataan Death March

Bataan, fall of

Belgian refugees

Big Three at Tehran Conference

Blitzkrieg of Poland in 1939

Bradley, Omar Nelson

British officers interrogate comfort women

British prisoners at Dunkerque

British reconnaissance aircraft at Malta

Buchenwald concentration camp

Burma Campaign, Burma Road

Canadian army in Sicily

Canadian parachute battalion

Canadian soldiers in Sherman tank

Canadian Women's Army Corps

Canadian worker welds bomb

Carol II, king of Romania

Casablanca Conference

Censorship in United States in World War II

Chamberlain, Neville

Cherbourg, France bomb damage

Child soldier in China

Chinese army troops

Chinese soldiers in Burmese jungle

Christian X

Christmas in World War II

Churchill, Truman, and Stalin the Potsdam Conference, 1945

Churchill, Winston

Citizen casualties in Amsterdam

Clark, Mark

Cochran, Jacqueline

Coral Sea, Battle of the

Dachau concentration camp survivors

Danes cheer British soldiers

Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Jr.

Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Sr.

de Gaulle, Charles

Depth charges of U.S. Coast Guard, 1943

Destruction of Rotterdam

Dieppe Raid

Displaced persons in Berlin

Distinguished service medal

Dönitz, Karl with U-boat officers

Doolittle, Jimmy

Dornberger, Walter

Douglas MacArthur at Leyte

Dresden in 1945

Eichmann, Adolf being questioned

El Alamein, Battle of

Eleanor Roosevelt at Japanese internment center

Emperor Hirohito

Empress Augusta Bay, Battle of

English children in bomb dugout

Female defense workers

Female factory worker in Moscow

Fermi, Enrico with particle accelerator

Finnish soldiers on Pensamo front

Flag raising on Iwo Jima

Flying Tigers in China

Foreign Legion troops fight at Navalcarnero

Forrestal, James

Franco, Francisco

Franklin Roosevelt signs declaration of war

Fredendall, Lloyd

French and U.S. soldiers after closing of Colmar Pocket

French Resistance fighter with American soldier

Frick, Wilhelm: arrives in motorcade

Garand, John C. shows rifle to officers

General Eisenhower with paratroopers prior to invasion of Normandy

General Erwin Rommel with 15th Panzer Division

George VI

German hurls grenade in Russia

German POWs in the United States

German sea mine

German soldier at the Eastern Front

German soldiers rest during Poland Campaign

German V-1 rocket

Germany, surrender of

Gerow, Leonard Townsend

Goebbels, Joseph at a demonstration in 1934

Göring, Hermann and Prince Paul

Graziani, Rodolfo

Greek soldiers in Albania

Groves, Leslie

Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter plane

Guadalcanal casualties

Haakon VII

Halftrack armored cars

Heinrich Himmler inspects a prison camp

Hess, Rudolf

Hitler, Adolf and Henri Philippe Pétain

Hobby, Oveta Culp visits with captain

Horthy de Nagybána, Miklós with Hermann Göring

Hull, Cordell

Imphal, siege of

Italo-Ethiopian War

Japanese aircraft over Caroline Islands in World War II

Japanese American children at relocation center

Japanese American girl awaiting internment

Japanese American internment camp

Japanese American relocation

Japanese American soldiers ship out to Italy

Japanese American soldiers support infantry attack

Japanese American storefront in California

Japanese celebrate capture of Bataan, Philippines

Japanese destroyer seen through periscope

Japanese kamikaze attack

Japanese midget submarine

Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) inspects officers

Joachim von Ribbentrop, Adolf Hitler, and Hiroshi Oshima

Kasserine Pass, Battle of

Katyn Forest massacre, mass grave

Kaye, Danny entertains troops in Japan

Keitel, Wilhelm signs German surrender

Kenney, George C.

Kesselring, Albert

King, William Lyon Mackenzie with Franklin D. Roosevelt

Koki Hirota stands trial

Landing craft, mechanized (LCM)

Laval, Pierre

LeMay, Curtis

Lend-Lease Program

Leni Riefenstahl directs film

Leyte Gulf, battle of

Lidice Massacre ruins

Lindbergh, Charles

London Blitz

Love, Nancy Harkness

Luftwaffe FW-190 aircraft, World War II

Luxembourg ruins

MacArthur, Douglas

MacArthur, Douglas signs Japanese surrender

U.S. soldiers at the Maginot Line

Makin, Battle of

Malmédy Massacre

Mareth, Battle of

Marine Raiders of the Bougainville Campaign

Marines at the capture of Eniwetok Atoll

Marshall Islands, attack on

Marshall Islands, battle for

Marshall, George Catlett

Midway, Battle of

Minesweeper

Molotov, Viacheslav

Montgomery, Sir Bernard Law

Mountbatten, Louis

Munich Conference

Munitions plant worker in India

Murphy, Audie

Mussolini, Benito with Adolf Hitler in 1940

Nagasaki bombing damage

Nagumo Chuichi

Naval battle in Narvik, Norway

Nazi banner in Eisenstadt, Austria

NEULAND, Operation

New Zealand women meet demands of war

Nimitz, Chester with officers

Oppenheimer, J. Robert

Pétain, Henri Philippe

Ploesti, raids on

Poster: Join the WAVES

Poster: Rosie the Riveter

Poster: United We are Strong

Poster: War bonds

Poster: Women at work

Poster: Women's Army Corps

Poster: Women's Land Army

Pyle, Ernie

Radar array in Italy

Raeder, Erich with crew of Scharnhorst

Raising of flag at Iwo Jima

Raskova, Marina Mikhailovna

Red Ball Express

Reichstag applauds Adolf Hitler

Reitsch, Hanna with Adolf Hitler

Residents defend Leningrad

Royal Air Force bomber

Ruins in Nuremberg, Germany

Saipan, Battle of

SB2C Dauntless dive bomber

Seaman rescued at Pearl Harbor

Yoshida Shigeru

Smith, Holland M.

Smuts, Jan Christian

Snipers dressed in camouflage

Soldier's tribute to dead at Normandy

Soldiers and civilians celebrate German surrender

Soldiers fight on the Aleutian Islands

Soldiers from Soviet Air Force load bombs

Solomon Islands, naval campaign

Song Meiling

Soviet sniper

Spaatz, Carl Andrew and Ira Clarence Eaker

Speer, Albert with Adolf Hitler

Stalin, Josef

Stalingrad

Stilwell, Joseph Warren

Surrender at Corregidor

TBF Avenger torpedo bomber aircraft

Tedder, Sir Arthur William; Eisenhower, Dwight D

Tinian, Battle of

Tobruk, Second Battle for

Tokyo Rose

Torpedo from a U.S. Navy bomber

Truman, Harry distributes medals and decorations

Truman, Harry S

Tunis, Battle of

Tuskegee Airmen

Tuskegee Airmen pilots beside a plane

Twining, Nathan F.

U.S. artillery in Luzon

U.S. Coast Guard anchored at Iwo Jima

U.S. gunner fires a machine gun

U.S. infantry flamethrowers on Kwajalein Island

U.S. landing ships

U.S. Marines after the Battle of Guam

U.S. Marines on Peleliu Island

U.S. Marines on Tarawa

U.S. naval base in Ulster during World War II

U.S. Navy gun crews in the Philippines

U.S. Navy submarine

U.S. soldier in Sicily campaign

U.S. troops cross Remagen Bridge, Germany

U.S. troops on Wadke Island

U.S. troops playing baseball

U.S. troops storm North African beach

Umezu Yoshijiro

United States attacks Yellow Beach

USS Arizona during the Pearl Harbor attack

USS Lexington

Victims of Hiroshima bombing

Victor Emmanuel III

View from the HMCS Skeena during World War II

von Braun, Wernher

Waesche, Russell R. (1886–1946)

Wainwright, Jonathan and Douglas MacArthur

War dog at work on Biak Island

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Warsaw, Battle of

Westwall or Siegfried line

Wilhelmina

Willkie, Wendell L.

Woman working on airplane engine

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)

Women welders in Mississippi

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps recruiters

Women's Auxiliary Air Force personnel trace aircraft movement

Women's Land Army

Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley

Yalta Conference

Yamashita Tomoyuki

Zhukov, Georgi