meetings (26 May): first

  second

  third

  meetings (27 May): first

  second

  third

  pessimism of

  and risks entailed in negotiations

  ‘Suggested Approach to Signor

  Mussolini’

  Warlimont, Major-General Walter

  and declaration of war on United States

  Warthegau (Gau Wartheland)

  Washington Nine Power Treaty (1922)

  Watson, Major General Edwin W., military aide to FDR

  Weizsäcker, Ernst von, German Foreign Ministry

  and declaration of war on United States

  and Japanese entry into war

  Welles, Sumner, US Under-Secretary of State

  and opposition to Hitler

  and repeal of neutrality laws

  rivalry with Hull

  visit to Europe

  Werth, Alexander, British journalist in Moscow

  Weygand, General Maxime, French Commander-in-Chief

  Wheeler, Burton K., US Senator

  White, William Allen, support for US intervention

  Willkie, Wendell, US presidential candidate

  and support for deal on destroyers

  Wilson, Woodrow, US President

  Woodring, Harry H., US Secretary of War

  Yamamoto Isoroku, Admiral

  Yonai Mitsumasa, Admiral, as Prime Minister

  Yoshida Zengo, Admiral, Navy Minister

  resignation

  Yoshihito, emperor of Japan

  Yugoslavia, Mussolini’s ambitions in

  Zante, Greece

  Zhdanov, Andrei

  Zhukov, General Georgi

  and suggestion of pre-emptive strike

  war plans

  About the Author

  Ian Kershaw studied at Liverpool and Oxford universities. He has taught at the University of Manchester, at the Ruhr University in Bochum, West Germany, at the University of Nottingham and since 1989 has been professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield. He is the author, most recently, of Making Friends with Hitler, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and the definitive two-volume biography of Hitler Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis. The first volume was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, and the second volume won the Wolfson Literary Award for History and the inaugural British Academy Prize.

 


 

  Ian Kershaw, Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941

 


 

 
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