Great Artiste, The
Great Britain
colonialism
London bombings
postwar
Potsdam Conference
World War II
Yalta Conference
grenades
Groves, Leslie
Guadalcanal
Guam
Gwinn, Wilbur G.
Hague Conventions
Hagushi Bay
Hakone
Hall, Theodore
Halsey, William “Bull”
Hamai, Shinso
Hammett, Dashiell
Hanayama, Shinso
Handy, Thomas
Harrison, George L.
Hashimoto, Mochitsura
Hatanaka, Kenji
Hemingway, Ernest, To Have and Have Not
Hensel, H. Struve
hibakusha
Hideyoshi, Toyotomi
Higgins boats
Hill 154, Battle for
Hinduism
Hirohito, Emperor Michinomiya
atomic bombings and
death of
expansionist policies
MacArthur and
postwar Japan and
postwar life of
refusal to surrender
surrender of
Truman’s ultimatum to
war crimes
Hiroshima
aftermath of explosion
air-raid warnings
American reaction to bombing
amputees
casualties
chosen for attack
explosion of Little Boy
firestorm
hypocenter
Japanese reaction to bombing
postwar
preparations for attack on
radiation poisoning
relief efforts
survivors
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Hirota, Koki
Hisatsune, Sakomizu
Hitler, Adolf
Hockley, Fred
Hokkaido
Honshu
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hopkins, James I. “Hoppy”
Hungary
hydrogen balloons
Idaho, USS
I-58 submarine
Imperial Japanese Army
atomic bombings and
battle for Manila
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Peleliu invasion and
Soviet invasion of Manchuria
surrender and
war with China
Imperial Japanese Navy
submarine warfare
Imperial Palace
Indianapolis, USS
rescue operation
submarine attack on
Ishii, Shiro
Ishino, Setsuo
island-hopping strategy
Island X
Itakagi, Seishiro
Italy
Iwabuchi, Sanji
Iwo Jima
Battle of
Jabit III
Jackson, Arthur J.
James, Woody
Japan
aftermath of atomic explosions
air force
army. See Imperial Japanese Army
attack on Pearl Harbor
civilian defense of homeland
culture
daimyo rule
expansion
firebombing of
food shortages
Hiroshima attack
invasion of Philippines
Iwo Jima
kamikazes
Nagasaki attack
natural resources
navy. See Imperial Japanese Navy
Okinawa
Peleliu invasion and
planned Allied invasion of
plans for Pearl Harbor attack
postwar
preparations for atomic bomb launch on
radiation sickness
reaction to atomic bombings
samurai
Soviet relations with
submarine warfare
surrender
surrender ceremony
Truman’s ultimatum to
war with China
war crimes
Japanese-Americans
Jeppson, Morris
Johnson, Lyndon B.
kaiten torpedoes
Kalanta, Ed
kamikazes
Kase, Toshikazu
Ketsu-Go strategy
Kimura, Heitaro
King, Ernest
Kistiakowsky, George
Kita, Isao
Koiso, Kuniaki
Kokura
Konoe, Fumimaro
Korea
Korean War
Kuharek, John D.
Kure
Kyoto
Kyushu
Laurence, William
Lawrence, David
Leahy, William D.
LeMay, Curtis
Lend-Lease program
Lewis, Bob
Leyte
invasion of
Little Boy
aiming point
arming of
casualties
explosion of
Hiroshima attack
survivors
transport and preparations for launch
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Lowry, USS
MacArthur, Arthur, Jr.
MacArthur, Arthur, IV
MacArthur, Douglas
becomes commander of American forces
death of
end of military career
Hirohito and
Hiroshima bombing and
inability to keep war secrets
Korean War and
landing at Atsugi
Leyte invasion
Manchurian invasion and
in Philippines
planned invasion of Japan
postwar Japan and
press and
surrender ceremony
Truman and
views on atomic bomb
MacArthur, Jean
Maeda Escarpment
Mae West flotation device
Malik, Yakov
Malinta Tunnel
Maltese Falcon, The (film)
Manchuria
Japanese invasion of
Soviet interests in
Soviet invasion of
Manhattan Project
Trinity test
Manila
battle for
war crimes in
Mao Tse-tung
Mariana Islands
Marine Corps, US
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Peleliu
planned invasion of Japan
in postwar Japan
Marks, R. Adrian
Marquardt, George
Marshall, George C.
Maryland, USS
Mashbir, Sidney
Matsui, Iwane
Matsushige, Yoshito
McIntire, Ross T.
McKnight, Charles
McLoy, John L.
McVay, Charles, III
Medal of Honor
Meretskov, Kirill
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Mikami, Yosaku
Mindanao
Missouri, USS
kamikaze attack on
surrender ceremony
Mitsuhide, Akechi
Miyazaki, Shuichi
monsoons
Montgomery, Bernard Law
Moore, K. C.
Moras, Esther Garcia
Mori, Takeshi
Morse code
Mount Suribachi
M-69 firebombs
Murai, Kenjiro
Murrow, Edward R.
Mussolini, Benito
Mutanchiang
Muto, Akira
Nagai, Yatsuji
Nagasaki
aftermath of explosion
casualties
explosion of Fat Man
&n
bsp; postwar
preparations for attack on
survivors
Nakagawa, Kunio
Nanking
napalm
Nashville, USS
National Press Club
natural resources
Navy, US
firebombing of Japan
Iwo Jima
Japan plans attack on Pearl Harbor
kamikaze attacks on
Okinawa
Pearl Harbor attack
Peleliu invasion
planned invasion of Japan
in postwar Japan
submarine attacks on
surrender ceremony on Missouri and
Nazism
Necessary Evil
Nevada, USS
New Britain
New Deal
New York
New York Herald Tribune
New York Times
NHK
Niigata
nijyuu hobakusha
Nimitz, Chester
Ninoshima
Nixon, Richard
Normandy invasion
North Africa
Nuremberg trials
oil
Okazaki, Katsuo
Okinawa
Battle of
Oklahoma, USS
Olivi, Fred
Oneida, USS
Onogi, Akira
painting by
Operation Coronet
Operation Downfall
Operation Magic
Operation Magic Carpet
Operation Meetinghouse
Operation Stalemate
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
death of
Manhattan Project and
postwar life of
reaction to Hiroshima
Trinity test
Oppenheimer, Kitty
O’Reilly, Angela
O’Reilly, John
O’Reilly, William James
O’Reilly, William James, Jr.
Osaka
Ota, Saburo
Pacific Fleet
Pacific war
aftermath of atomic explosions
battle for Manila
casualties
end of
firebombing of Japan
Hiroshima attack
island-hopping strategy
Iwo Jima
Leyte invasion
Nagasaki attack
Okinawa
Peleliu
in Philippines
planned Allied invasion of Japan
preparations for atomic bomb launch
Soviet invasion of Manchuria
submarine warfare
surrender ceremony
surrender of Japan
Pal, Radhabinod
Palau
Palawan
Panama Canal
Parsons, Bob
Parsons, William S. “Deak”
Patton, George S.
Pearl Harbor
attack on
Japan plans attack on
Peg, William
Peleliu, Battle of
Penney, William
Pennsylvania, USS
pens, ceremonial
Percival, Arthur
Perry, Matthew
Philippines
Japanese invasion of
Japanese war crimes in
Leyte invasion
World War II
plutonium
Poland
Pope, Everett P.
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Declaration
POWs
Allied
casualties
Japanese
war crimes against
press
Hiroshima bombing and
on Japanese surrender
MacArthur and
Nagasaki bombing and
on war criminals
PT boats
Puller, Lewis “Chesty”
Pu Yi, Emperor
Pyle, Ernie
Rabaul
radar
radiation poisoning
radio, Japanese
surrender broadcast
rape
comfort women
Manchuria
Manila
Nanking
Rayburn, Sam
“reverse slope defense”
Rhoades, Weldon “Dusty”
rising sun emblem
Ritchie, Bill
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
death of
failing health of
MacArthur and
1944 presidential election
nuclear policy
war policy
Yalta Conference
Rupertus, William
Russell, Richard
Sachs, Alexander
Sagami Bay
Saipan, fall of
samurai
Saratoga, USS
Sarawak
Sato, Naotake
Sea of Japan
Second Armored Division
Senjinkun
seppuku
77th Infantry Division
sharks
Sherman tanks
Sherr, Pat
Shiba, Katsuo
Shigemitsu, Mamoru
Shiizaki, Jiro
Shillen, Dave
shoguns
Singapore
Sixth Army
Sledge, Eugene
Slim, William
sonar
South Dakota, USS
Soviet Union
atomic bomb and
communism
expansion
interests in Manchuria
invasion of Manchuria
Japanese relations with
postwar
Potsdam Conference
Truman and
World War II
Yalta Conference
Spaatz, Carl “Tooey”
Spencer, Murlin
Ssutaoling Hill
Stalin, Joseph
atrocities committed by
Potsdam Conference
Truman and
Yalta Conference
Stimson, Henry
Stone, Harlan Fiske
Straight Flush
submarine warfare
Sugamo Prison
Sugita, Kaziyi
suicide, Japanese
Supreme Council for the Direction of the War
Supreme Court, US
survivors of atomic bombings
Sutherland, Richard
Suzuki, Kantaro
Sweeney, Charles W. “Chuck”
Switzerland
Szilard, Leo
Taiwan
Takakura, Akiko
Target Committee
Tatlock, Jean
Tatum, Chuck
Taylor, Ralph, Jr.
Tennessee, USS
Texas, USS
Thirty-Seventh Division
308th Counterintelligence Corps
Third Army
Third Fleet
Tibbets, Enola Gay
Tibbets, Paul W.
Hiroshima attack
postwar life
Tinian
atomic bomb transport and preparations
Togo, Shigenori
Toguri, Iva Ikuku
To Have and Have Not (film)
Tojo, Hideki
execution of
Tokyo
Doolittle raid
firebombing of
Tokyo Rose
Tokyo trials
Tolman, Ruth
Tomioka, Sadatoshi
Top Secret
Toyoda, Teijiro
Trinitite
Trinity test
Truman, Bess
Truman, Harry S.
becomes president
“The Buck Stops Here” motto
criticism of
death of
Hiroshima bombing and
MacArthur and
middle name
Nagasaki bombing and
nuclear policy
postwar policies
Potsdam Conference
Soviet Union and
surrender of Japan and
ultimatum to Japan
as vice president
war policy
Truman, Margaret
Tsuzuki, Masao
Twentieth Air Force
XXI Bomber Command
Type 95 torpedoes
typhoons
Ulithi
Umezu, Yoshijiro
Umurbrogol Pocket
United States Army Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific (USASTAF)
Unit 731
uranium
US military. See Army, US; Army Air Forces, US; Marine Corps, US; Navy, US
Utah, USS
Van Kirk, Theodore
venereal disease
Wainwright, Jonathan “Skinny”
Wake Island
Wallace, Henry
war crimes
execution of war criminals
German
Japanese
Tokyo trials
Unit 731
War Department, US
Washington, DC
Washington Post
Watson, Edwin “Pa”
West Point
West Virginia, USS
Whitney, Courtney
Wild Hunter, USS
Wilpers, John
Wilson, Anne T.
Wilson, John
Wilson, Woodrow
World War I
World War II
beginning of
end of
Roosevelt policy
Truman policy
see also European war; Pacific war; specific armies, battles, generals, and theaters
Yalta Conference
Yamamoto, Isoroku
Yamashita, Tomoyuki
Yamazaki, Battle of
Yasukuni Shrine
Yokohama
Yokoyama, Ichiro
Yonai, Mitsumasa
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Epigraph
Map Legend
A Note to Readers
Introduction
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six