A Patriot's History of the Modern World

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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
    â€œEurope 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
    â€œPhony 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

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