The Yanks Are Coming! (53 page)

Pearl Harbor attack,
159
,
176
,
202
,
218
,
234
,
292

Pendergast, Tom,
255–58

Pennsylvania Railroad,
69
,
209

Pershing, John J. “Black Jack”

    
as Army chief of staff,
133

    
death of,
134

    
early life of,
121–23

    
as General of the Armies,
133

    
military career of,
66
,
123–29

    
World War I and,
10
,
34
,
66–86
,
91
,
93
,
97
,
99–117
,
129–33

Pétain, Philippe,
36–37
,
70–71
,
77
,
79
,
82
,
91–92
,
106–7
,
130–32
,
329

Philippines, the

    
Japan and,
138
,
157–62
,
169
,
176
,
216

    
as part of U.S. empire,
42
,
127
,
131
,
153–54
,
157–62
,
176
,
184
,
211–12
,
222
,
274
,
290
,
313

    
rebels in,
92
,
125
,
137–38
,
148
,
168

    
Spanish-American War and,
137

Philippine Department,
154

Plattsburgh Movement, the,
55
,
286

poilus
,
70–71
,
82–83
,
96

Poland, Polish,
39–40
,
188
,
207
,
215
,
245
,
259
,
310
,
312
,
317
,
320
,
330

Poole, Frederick C.,
303

Portsmouth, VA,
183

Potsdam Conference, the,
258

Prague,
207

Presbyterians,
48

Prest-O-Lite Company,
227

Princeton,
48
,
57

Princip, Gavrilo,
14–15

Progressive Party,
262

progressives, progressivism

    
in America,
46
,
48–49
,
141
,
308
,
311
,
313–14

    
in Europe,
8
,
26

Prohibition, Prohibitionists,
46
,
172
,
231
,
273–74

Prussia, Prussians,
16–18
,
21
,
28–30

Pulitzer Prize,
133

Pusan Perimeter,
163

Q

Quakers,
47–48

Quantico, VA,
81
,
185–87
,
189

Quezon, Manuel,
154
,
157–58

R

race cars,
69–70
,
227–28
,
232

“Rainbow” Division,
74
,
92
,
149–53
,
241
,
271
.
See also
U.S. 42nd Division

Red Army, the,
304

Red China, Red Chinese,
163
,
264
.
See also
China, Chinese

Red Cross, the,
2
,
85
,
223

Red Russians,
300
,
302–4

Reformation, the,
8
,
263

Reich, the.
See
Second Reich
;
Third Reich

Reichstag, the,
330

Republican Party, Republicans

    
and Democrats,
46–47
,
210
,
260
,
269
,
280
,
313–14

    
policies of,
143
,
155–56
,
161
,
314
,
322–25

    
politicians,
129
,
147
,
155–56
,
164
,
179
,
194
,
210
,
216
,
255–57
,
260
,
262
,
265–66
,
270–75
,
280–81
,
290
,
314
,
322

Retz Forest,
94

Revolutionary War,
194

Rhineland,
317
,
320

Rhine River, the,
99
,
206
,
305

Rickenbacker, Bill,
236

Rickenbacker, David,
236

Rickenbacker, Eddie,
69–70
,
225–237
,
288
,
332

Rickenbacker Motor Company,
231–32

Ridgway, Matthew,
163–64
,
213
,
249–50

Robinson, Edwin Arlington,
285–86

Rockefeller Foundation, the,
271

Rockenbach, Samuel D.,
199

“Rock of the Marne,”
94
,
132
.
See also
U.S. 38th Infantry

Rockwell, Kiffin,
32–33

Romania, Romanians,
39
,
259
,
278
,
320–21

Rommel, Erwin,
202–3

Roosevelt, Alice,
284
,
293

Roosevelt, Archibald “Archie,”
55
,
283–93

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
257–58

Roosevelt, Ethel,
284

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
256
,
266

    
as assistant secretary of the Navy,
188
,
217
,
251

    
as commander in chief,
156–57
,
160–61
,
188
,
202–3
,
215–20
,
248
,
275–80

    
death of,
236
,
258

    
election and reelections of,
156
,
262

    
opponents of,
233
,
275

    
supporters of,
143
,
256–57
,
260

Roosevelt, Kermit,
284–92

Roosevelt, Quentin,
229
,
283
,
285
,
287–90
,
291

Roosevelt, Quentin, II,
291

Roosevelt, Theodore,
129

    
foreign policy of,
17

    
opinions on World War I,
45–47
,
52
,
55
,
59

    
as president,
127
,
138
,
148
,
242
,
270
,
313

    
Rough Riders and,
276
,
290

    
sons of,
283–93

    
on William Jennings Bryan,
46–47

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.,
278
,
283–87

Root, Elihu,
125
,
138
,
313–14

Rough Riders, the,
55
,
112
,
216
,
276
,
290

Royal Navy, the,
19
,
41
,
56
,
59
,
72
,
316
.
See also
Britain, British: naval power of

Royal Scots Fusiliers,
39

Rumsey, Ruth,
271

Runyon, Damon,
231

Rusk, Dean,
263–64

Russian Civil War, the,
72
,
131
,
143
,
273
,
297–305

Russian Empire,
38
,
72
.
See also
Russia, Russian

Russian Second Army,
30

Russia, Russians.
See also
Soviet Union, Soviets

    
Allied military intervention in (WWI),
297–305
,
307
,
309

    
Berlin and,
207

    
Bolshevism in,
6–9
,
72
,
297–305
,
316
,
330

    
casualties suffered by the (WWI),
30
,
40

    
causes of World War I and,
20–23
,
37
,
45
,
52–53

    
departure from World War I,
72
,
298–99

    
as enemies of the West,
207
,
222
,
236
,
259

    
German occupation of,
40
,
72
,
74

    
military of,
19
,
30
,
40
,
72
,
169

    
politics of,
6–9
,
60
,
72
,
131
,
143

    
Prussia and,
28–30

    
relationship with Britain,
19
,
21
,
318–19

    
relationship with Germany,
16–23
,
315

    
territorial designs of,
7
,
16
,
20–22

    
World War I military engagements of,
38–40

Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905,
19
,
127
,
138
,
148
,
302

Ruthenia, Ruthenians,
320–21

S

Saarland,
100
,
317–18
,
320

Sagamore Hill,
285
,
290

Saint-Mihiel,
99–117
,
132
,
152
,
171
,
185
,
200
,
213
,
272

Saint-Nazaire,
70

Salerno, Italy,
279

San Juan Hill,
125

Sarajevo,
13
,
22

Sazonov, Sergei,
20

Schlieffen, Alfred Graf von,
22
,
28

Schlieffen Plan,
7
,
22–23
,
27–28
,
31
,
33

Scotland,
167
,
194
,
305

“Second Missouri Compromise,”
257

Second Reich,
5–6
,
8–9
,
16–17
,
21
,
297–98
,
331

Second World War.
See also
World War II

    
air power in,
143

    
alliances during,
221

    
casualties of,
9

    
causes of the,
133
,
330

    
consequences of,
9
,
162–63
,
222

    
popular opinions of,
9
,
329–30

    
predictions of the,
133
,
143

    
relationship to the First World War,
9
,
329–30

Seeger, Alan,
32