The Yanks Are Coming! (50 page)

    
casualties of the,
6
,
324

    
consequences of,
7–9
,
330

    
end of the,
117

    
France and,
329

    
Germany and,
330

    
popular view of,
6–9

    
Russia and,
40

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
5

Flanders offensive,
75–77

Florida Airways,
233

Foch, Ferdinand,
35
,
94
,
99–101
,
132
,
246
,
329

Fokker, Anthony,
175

Fokker company,
232–33

“Fontainebleau Memorandum, the,”
320

Ford, Henry,
231

Fort Clark, TX,
202

Fort Leavenworth, KS,
146
,
148–49
,
168
,
201
,
211

Fort McKinley, Philippines,
127

Fort Monroe, VA,
136

Fort Moultrie, SC,
214

Fort Myer, VA,
155
,
197
,
201–2
,
211

Fort Reno, OK,
211

Fort Riley, KS,
138–39
,
197
,
201–2

Fort Screven, GA,
214

Fort Selden, TX,
146

Fort Sheridan, IL,
196

Fort Sill, OK,
253

Fort Wingate, NM,
146

Fourteen Points (Wilson),
114
,
307–11
,
323

France, French

    
as Allies (WWI),
4–5
,
9–10
,
17–21
,
37–39
,
51–52
,
69
,
71
,
129
,
297–99
,
302–5

    
Alsace-Lorraine and,
21–22
,
28–29
,
114
,
133
,
309
,
317
,
328

    
America and,
10
,
34
,
51–53
,
55
,
57
,
66
,
69
,
73
,
77
,
79
,
82
,
94
,
99–101
,
114–15
,
129–30
,
132
,
137
,
170
,
197
,
228
,
251
,
253–54
,
271
,
284
,
287–93
,
331

    
casualties suffered by the (WWI),
29
,
32–33
,
35
,
37

    
characteristics of,
17
,
21–22
,
35
,
45
,
69–70
,
82
,
130–31
,
167
,
254

    
empire of,
18–19
,
35
,
218–19
,
316
,
323

    
invasion of,
5
,
7
,
9–10
,
22
,
27–29
,
31
,
115
,
197
,
214

    
military officers,
30
,
34–37
,
70–71
,
73–74
,
79
,
83
,
90–92
,
94
,
107
,
131
,
151
,
199
,
329

    
Paris Peace Conference and,
309–20
,
324

    
politics in,
7–8
,
19
,
21–22
,
133
,
175
,
277
,
311

    
role in World War I,
4–5
,
16–23
,
29–32
,
45
,
49
,
55
,
57
,
69

    
warfare in (WWI),
29–30
,
34–37
,
51
,
66–67
,
70–75
,
77–85
,
90
,
94–117
,
139
,
150
,
170
,
185
,
197–98
,
212
,
243
,
246
,
254
,
284
,
187
,
293
,
313–14
,
328

    
warfare in (WWII),
143
,
203
,
205
,
216–18
,
277–80
,
328–30

Franco-Prussian War, the,
7
,
21–22
,
27
,
133
,
324

Frayer, Lee,
227

Frayer-Miler automobile manufacturing plant,
227

Freikorps, the,
312

French II Colonial Corps,
102

French XVII Corps,
109–10

French air force,
32
,
170
,
229

French army,
28
,
36–37
,
70
,
94
,
197

French Foreign Legion,
32–33
,
95

French Fourth Army,
115

French Second Army,
37
,
107

French, Sir John,
33–34

French Tenth Army,
94

Friedenstürm
,
94

Führer, the,
328

Fulton, MO,
259

G

Gale, Captain Paul,
279

Galicia,
39

Gallipoli,
31
,
91

Gallipoli Campaign, the,
39

Gallwitz, Max von,
108

Garrison, Lindley M.,
48

General Motors,
231–34

German air force,
233
,
317

German Eighteenth Army,
75

German Eighth Army,
29–30

German general staff,
17
,
19
,
22–23
,
27
,
36–37

German Sixth Grenadiers,
93

Germany, Germans

    
actions leading to World War I,
5
,
7
,
22–23
,
49
,
65

    
actions leading to World War II,
8
,
175
,
215
,
218
,
232–33
,
248
,
328–30

    
Allied bombing of (WWII),
280

    
Alsace-Lorraine and,
21

    
blockade against,
42
,
52–53

    
casualties suffered by (WWI),
6
,
28
,
30
,
32–35
,
37
,
40
,
44
,
90
,
103
,
246
,
289

    
characteristics of,
2
,
26–27
,
32
,
35
,
132–33
,
226
,
231
,
272

    
dishonesty of,
2
,
272

    
Habsburg Empire and,
30

    
invasion of Belgium,
25–30
,
52

    
as member of Central Powers,
37–38
,
41
,
129–31
,
139
,
169
,
184
,
212
,
299
,
325–26

    
militarism of,
17–20
,
22
,
45
,
56
,
86
,
127
,
132–33
,
175
,
298

    
military action (WWI),
2–4
,
16
,
22–31
,
35–37
,
39–40
,
44
,
66
,
71–117
,
132
,
150–53
,
170–72
,
186
,
200
,
214
,
228–29
,
242
,
272

    
military action (WWII),
204–7
,
215–16
,
258
,
279

    
military officers,
4
,
26
,
79
,
85
,
202

    
Paris Peace Conference and,
307–24

    
politics in,
7–8

    
post–World War II division of,
221
,
262

    
prewar attacks against America,
53–61
,
228

    
prewar empire of,
6
,
16–17
,
21
,
37
,
182

    
Russia and,
29–30
,
40
,
74
,
298–300
,
305
,
315

    
World War I legacy of,
4–6

    
Zimmermann Telegram,
59–60

Germany and the Next War
,
27

Gibbons, Floyd,
86

Gibson, Hugh,
25–26

“Give 'Em Hell Harry” (nickname for Harry Truman),
253
,
256
,
267

Give 'em Hell, Harry!
(play and film),
267

Goebbels, Joseph,
329

Goodyear, Bradley,
270

Gore, Albert,
249

Göring, Hermann,
232

Gough, Sir Hubert,
75

Gouraud, Henri,
90–91

Graves, William S.,
301–5

Great Depression, the,
155
,
248
,
291–92
,
324

Great Illusion
,
The
,
7

Great War, the.
See also
First World War, the
;
World War I

    
American military leadership in,
135
,
143
,
159
,
165
,
202
,
216
,
236
,
248
,
271
,
280
,
283–84
,
293
,
332

    
America's entry into,
4–5
,
10
,
73
,
216
,
326
,
332

    
belligerents in,
29
,
51

    
Eastern Europe and,
320–21

    
end of the,
297–99

    
global casualties of the,
299

    
Ireland and,
40–41

    
memory of,
165
,
293

    
military action prior to,
5
,
85

    
reparations for the,
318
,
324

    
World War II as the second,
172
,
202
,
215–16
,
327
,
330

Greco-Turkish War, the,
322–23

Greece, Greek,
39
,
221
,
245
,
260–61
,
278
,
312–13

Grenadier Guards,
39

Grey, Sir Edward,
23
,
52

H

Habsburg Empire, the,
8
,
15
,
20
,
30
,
39
,
309