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  Index

  Abe Nobuyuki, General

  Abyssinia

  Italian campaign in

  Adowa, battle of (1896)

  Africa, German colonial ambitions in

  Agnelli, Giovanni

  Albania

  Italian occupation

  Alexandrovsky, Sergei, at Berlin embassy

  Alfieri, Dino, Italian ambassador in

  Berlin

  Algeria

  Alsace-Lorraine

  Alsop, Joseph, Century Group

  America First organization

  Anami Korechika, Japanese Vice-War Minister

  Anti-Comintern Pact (1936)

  antisemitismin Europe

  in Germany

  Hitler’s

  in Soviet Union

  see also

  Jews

  Antonescu, General Ion, Romanian dictator

  Arita Hachiro, Japanese Foreign Minister

  Armelli, Quirino, deputy to Badoglio

  Arta, Greece

  Athens

  Atlantic Charter

  Atlantic Ocean American convoy escorts

  attacks on American shipping

  British shipping losses

  and effect of Pearl Harbor

  German dominance of as threat to America

  German naval view of

  USS Greer

  incident

  war in

  atomic bombs, decision to commission

  atrocities by Japanese in China

  Nanking (1937)

  pogroms

  Tungchow (1937)

  Attlee, Clement, Lord Privy Seal, in War Cabinet

  Attolico, Bernardo, Italian ambassador in Berlin

  Augusta USS

  Auschwitz-Birkenau

  Australia

  Austria

  Azores

  as possible German base

  Badoglio, Marshal Pietro, chief of Italian General Staff

  and decision to invade Greece

  pessimism about intervention in war

  and preparations for invasion of Greece

  Balbo, Italo, Italian commander and Fascist leader

  Baldwin, Stanley, Prime Minister

  Balkans

  German intervention in (1941)

  Mussolini’s ambitions in