How America Got It Right: The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy
Index
Abu Ghraib prison abuse, 235
Acheson, Dean, 151, 152, 154
Adams, John, 12, 39
Adams, John Quincy 36—38,42—43
Afghanistan, 186, 199—201, 208, 223, 224, 230, 233, 246, 247, 248, 250
African U.S. embassy bombings
(1998), 207
Aircraft carriers, 98—99, 123
Alamo, the, 45
Albania, 111, 220
Albright, Madeleine, 206, 215, 219
Alexander, Porter, 58
Alexander the Great, 52, 59
Allen, Frederick Lewis, 90, 92
“All-Mexico” movement, 52—54
Alsace-Lorraine, 90
Amador, Manuel, 75
America First, 120
American Expeditionary Force, 88
American Revolution, 8—13. 22
Ames, Fisher, 139
Anderson, Maxwell, 106
Anderson, Sherwood, 106
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 142
Ansar al-Islam. 230, 231, 236
Antietam, Battle of, 58
Anti-Imperialist League. 69
Antiwar movement, 178—180
al Aqsa Brigades, 231, 236
Arabic (liner). 82
Arafat, Yasser, 193, 196, 201—203, 236
Ardennes Forest, 127
Argonne Forest, 88
Arquilla, John, 240
Articles of Confederation, 13
Aspin, Les, 207
Atomic bomb, 124—125, I33—35, 137, 141, 145, 147, 148, 172
Australia, 6, 11, 79, 163
Austria, 38, 59, 90, 104, 113, 143, 189—190
Austria-Hungary, 80—81
Aydid, Muhammad Farah, 206
B-1 bomber, 186
B-17 bombers. 125, 127—128
B-24 bombers, 125
B-29 bombers, 125, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 147
Baathist party (Iraq), 230, 231
Baker, James, 211
Baker, Newton D., 105
Balfour, Arthur, 80, 85, 100
Bao Dai, 160, 162
Barak, Ehud, 202
Batista, Fulgencio, 169
Bay of Pigs invasion, 169
Begin, Menachem, 197, 201
Belgium, 83, 90, 114, 147
Benelux, 147
Berg, Nicholas, 235
Berger, Samuel (Sandy) R.. 226
Berlin Airlift. 138, 147—148
Berlin wall, 169, 170, 189, 190, 221, 226
Bernstorff. Johann-Heinrich von, 82, 84
Beyond Terror (Peters), 165—166
Bildt, Carl. 226
bin Laden, Osama, 183—184, 195, 207, 225, 247
Bismarck, Otto von, 43
Black Hawk Down episode, 206—207
Blair, Tony, 219
Borton, Hugh, 102
Bosnia, 211, 213—216, 218, 222—223
Brezhnev, Leonid, 175, 188
Brezhnev Doctrine, 189
Britain (see Great Britain)
Brooke, Sir Alan, 127
Brown. Jacob, 29, 48
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 165
Buchanan, James, 52
Bulgaria, 81, 127, 133
Bunau-Varilla, Philippe, 75, 76
Burgoyne. John, 10
Burma (Myanmar), 126, 129, 149, 163, 212
Bush, George H. W. 193, 203—206, 209, 214, Bush, George W, 223, 224, 226, 227, 242, 245, 248
Byrnes, James F., 143
Calhoun, John C., 53
Calley, William. 179
Cambodia, 142, 158, 179, 180, 212
Canada, 3, 11, 13, 28—30, 47, 72, 79, 118
Canning, George, 39,41
Carnegie, Andrew, 62
Caroline Islands, 69, 131
Carter, Jimmy 186, 192, 197—200
Castro, Fidel, 169, 171, 187
Cather, Willa, 106
Catherine II, Czarina of Russia, 12
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 145, 169, 174, 187, 188, 224
Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 163
Chamberlain, Neville, 228
Chancellorsville, Battle of, 60
Château-Thierry France, 88
Chernomyrdin, Viktor, 220
Chiang Kai-shek, 110, III, 133, 148—150, 152, 160, 163, 164, 168
China, 64, 65, 69, 71. 72, 97. 98. 138, 183
- civil war in, 133, 148—150, 231
- Iraq war (2003) and, 5
- Japan and, 64, 69, 72, 100—101, 104, 109—111, 119—121
- Korean War and, 152—155, 159, 160, 162, 165
- Nine-Power Treaty and, 100—101
- Soviet Union and, 158—160, 167, 168, 173
- Taiwan and, 150—151, 160, 163—165, 168
- in United Nations, 140, 148—149 U.S., relations with, 158—160, 163, i68, 173—175, 180—181
- Vietnam and, 161—162,165
China differential, 159, 163
Christopher, Warren, 218, 219
Chua, Amy. 187, 234
Churchill. Sir Winston, 6, 103, III, 112, 119—120, 123, 126—127, 132—134, 144—145, 187, 228
Citadel, The, 50
Citizen-soldier, concept of. 49—50
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 57, 165
Civil rights movement, 165
Civil War, 31, 32, 55—62, 66, 87, 123—124, 128, 157
Clark. George Rogers, 22
Clark, Wesley, 220
Clark, William, 22
Clausewitz, Carl von, 227
Clay, Henry, 46, 56
Clemenceau, Georges, 89—91, 105
Clinton, Bill, 192, 193, 202, 206—209, 211, 212, 214, 215, 217, 220, 221—223
Cobb, Frank, 86
Cohen, William, 220
Cold war, 4—5,40—41, 145—148, 156—158, 167—173, 210
Collectivization, 146
Colombia, 73—76
Colonial era, 2, 7—14
Columbia River. 22.44
Common market, 147
CommonSense (Paine), 11
Communism, 2, 5,138, 142—146, 149, 153—155, 162, 163, 166, 171, 183, 184, 191
(see also China; Soviet Union; Vietnam)
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, 58—61
Consensus-making, 138—140
Constitution of the United States, 20, 32, 91, 104, 105
Containment strategy 144—145, 153, 166
Continental Congress, 11
Continental Democrats, 52—54
Continental Divide, 21, 22
Coral Sea, Battle of the, 130
Cornwallis, Lord, 12
Cotton, 31
Cox. James M., 93
Crittenden, John J., 56
Croatia. 213, 218
Cuba, 39, 65—68, 72, 77
- Bay of Pigs invasion, 169
- missile crisis, 2, 157, 158, 170—172, 176, 241, 242, 249
Cummings. E. E., 106
Czechoslovakia. 90, 104, 113, 141, 146, 147, 190. 228
Dardanelles Strait, 140, 145
Darwin, Charles, 66
Davis, Jefferson, 60, 61
Dayton accords of 1995, 218
Declaration of Independence, 33, 157
Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 43
Denmark, 90, 114
Détente, 186
Dewey, George. 68, 69
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 162—163, 173-175
Dien Bien Phu, 161
Dole, Bob, 214—215, 217
Dominican Republic. 76—77
Domino theory, 161, 162
Doniphan, Alexander W., 51
Duelfer, Charles L., 224
Dulles, John Foster, 158, 160—164, 166
Dunkirk, 114
Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre-Samuel, 18
Dutch East Indies, 119—121, 129
Eagleburger, Lawrence, 214
East Germany 148, 169, 190
Economy growth of U.S., 62—63,106—108, 125, 186
Egypt, 90, 166, 193, 195—197, 244
Einstein, Albert, 124
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 126, 127, 155, 108, 160, 161, 164, 166, 167, 169
Eliot, I S., 106
El Salvador, 188
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 35
Eniwetok Atoll, 131
Enola Gay (B-29 bomber), 134
Entebbe, Uganda, 198
Erie Canal, 26
Ethiopia, 104, 111
Ethnic cleansing, 80, 209, 213, 216, 220
European Defense Community (EDC), 161
European Union, 147
Evolution, theories of, 66
Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia, 203
Faulkner, William, 106
Federalists, 20
Ferdinand VII. King of Spain, 36, 38, 39
Ferguson, Niall, 228—229
Fermi, Enrico. 124
First and Second Manassas, Battles of, 60
Fiske, John, 66
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 105,106
Flexible response, doctrine of, 160
Ford, Gerald, 186
Ford, Henry 80
Fortress America, 115
Fort Sumter, 57
Fosdick, Raymond, 105
Fourteen Points (Wilson), 89, 90, 92
France, I, 38. 39, 59, 147, 163, 195
- American Revolution and, 11—20
- Gulf War (1991) and, 203, 205
- in Indochina, 120, 121, 129, 138, 142, 161—162
- Iraq war (2003) and, 5. 226, 228
- Revolution of 1789, 33, 188
- Suez Canal crisis and, 166
- in United Nations, 140
- World War I and, 4, 79—81, 83, 88—91
- World War II and, 4, 104, 105, 114, 120, 127
Franco-Prussian War of 1870-7, 90
Franklin, Benjamin, 11, 12, 14
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, 80
Frémont, John C., 51
Friedman, Thomas L.,5
Frontier, 8—9. 24—27. 30, 35, 36,44, 47, 63
Frost, Robert, 106
Frum, David, 187
Fuchs, Klaus, 124
Gaddis, John Lewis, 224, 227
Gadsden Purchase, 54
Gaza, 143, 202
Geneva Convention of 1949, 154
Gentlemen’s agreement, 72
George III, King of England, 27
Germany 2,4, 65, 69, 73
- division of, 132, 138, 143
- economy of, 107
- Hitler’s rise to power in, 112—113
- Iraq war (2003) and, 5, 226, 228
- reparations and, 83, 90, 107. 113
- reunification of 183, 190
- World War I and, 4, 78—91, 93
- World War II and, 4, 103, 104, 114—118, 123, 125—129, 132, 133, 135
Gershwin, George, 106
Ghent, Treaty of (1814), 30
Giap, Vo Nyugen, 161
Gilbert Islands, 130
Glasgow, Ellen, 106
Glasnost, 188, 189
Glass, Carter, 108—109
Glenn, John, 167
Golan Heights, 197
Goliad, 45
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 188—190
Grant, Ulysses S., 32,49
Graves, Thomas, 12
Great Britain, 2, 38—48. 52, 53. 59, 62, 63, 69—70, 146, 163, 195
- American Revolution and, 9—13, 22
- economy of 107
- Gulf War (1991 and, 203, 205
- Iraq war (2003) and, 6
- Northwest and, 22, 27, 35
- Royal Navy of 3, 4, 10, 26, 28,40, 41, 64, 65, 79, 80, 82, 87—88, 95—96, 98, 99, 118
- Suez Canal crisis and, 166
- in United Nations, 140
- War of 1812 and, 26, 28—30
- World War I and. 4, 79—81, 84, 85, 87—91, 96
- World War II and, 114—119, 126, 132
Great Depression, 79, 103, 108
Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, 132
Greece, 39, 127, 145
Greenland, 118
Grenada, 187
Griswold, A. Whitney, 101
Groves, Leslie R., 134
Guadalcanal, 130
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of (1848), 53, 54
Guam, 68, 69, 132
Guantánamo Bay, 72
Guderian, Heinz, 114
Guerrilla warfare, 176—178, 196, 229—232
Gulf of Tonkin resolution of 1964, 175
Gulf War (1991), 193, 203—205, 240
Haiti, 77
Halsey William, 129, 130
Hamas, 202, 203, 231, 236
Hamilton, Alexander, 2
Harding. Warren G., 93, 97
Harrison, Benjamin. 66, 68
Hawaii, 65, 69
Hay. John, 73—76
Hearst, William Randolph, 67
Hemingway. Ernest, 106
Henderson. G. F. R., 61
Herrán, Tomás, 74
Hezbollah, 231, 236
Hindenburg. Paul von, 84, 112
Hindenburg Line, 88
Hiroshima, 134, 135, 137
Hitler. Adolf, 5, 103, 104, 107, 109, 111—114, 118, 123, 142, 203, 209, 228
HMS Prince of Wales, 123
HMS Repulse, 123
Ho Chi Minh, 142, 160—162
Holbrooke, Richard, 218
Holocaust, 112, 142
Honecker, Erich, 190
Hood, John Bell, 6i
Hoover, Herbert, 109
Hopkins, Harry, 1188
Hopper, Edward, 106
Houston, Sam, 45
Howe, William, 10
Hughes. Charles Evans, 97—98, 100—101
Hughes, Langston, 106
Hull. Cordell, 120—122
Hungary 127, 133, 141, 166, 189—190
Hussein, King of Jordan, 196
Hussein, Saddam, 193, 199, 203—205, 223—224, 227, 229—231, 233, 236, 241,244
Hydrogen bomb, 160, 172
Iceland, 118
Ignatieff. Michael, 246
Imperialism, 67—71, 74—76
Impressment, 26—27
Inchon invasion, 152
Independence. Missouri, 44
India, 79, 163
Individualism, 34,35
Indonesia, 119
Influence of Sea Power upon History, The
(Mahan), 4, 64
Intercontinental ballistic missile
(ICBM), 167
Iran, 90, 203, 244
- arms sale to, 188
- hostage crisis in, 192, 198—199
- nuclear program of, 241, 242,245,250 Iraq, 90, 195, 199, 246—248, 250
- Abu Ghraib prison abuse, 235
- guerrilla war in, 229—233
- Gulf War (‘99’). 193, 203—205, 240 war (2003), 5, 223—227, 240—241
Iron curtain speech (Churchill). 144—145
Islamic fundamentalism, 183, 184, 192—200, 203, 214, 228, 236—237, 246
Islamic Jihad, 231, 236
Island-hopping strategy 129—131, 135
Isolationism, 1—2, 35, 78. 79, 99, 120, 122
Israel, 142—143, 166, 183. 192, 193, 195, 196, 199, 201, 202, 204, 223, 236
Italy 89, 90, 103, 104, 107, 111, 115. 123, 126, 127. 147
Ives, Joseph Christmas,59
Jackson. Andrew, 30, 35—36, 48
Jackson, Thomas J. (Stonewall), 49, 59—61, 127
Jamestown, Virginia, 7
Janvier. Bernard, 216
Japan. 69, 73, 85, 86
- allied occupation of, 138, 141
- atomic bombing of 134—135
- China and, 64, 69, 72, 100—101,
- 104, 109—111, 119—121
- Manchuria and, 64—65, 71—72, 104, 109, 110
- navy of, 111, 123, 125, 130
- at Washington Naval Conference 97—102
- World War II and, 1—2,4, 103, 115—116, 119—125, 129—135, 226
Japanese Americans, internment of, 122
Jashari, Adem, 219
Jay, John, 12, 14
Jefferson, Thomas, 8, 11, 16—18, 20—22, 32, 39
Jellicoe, Sir John R., 87
Jerusalem, 202
Jinmen (Quemoy), 158, 163—165
Johnson, Chalmers, 229
Johnson, Lyndon B., 157, 158, 165, 174—176, 178, 179
Johnston, Joseph E., 61
Jones, Thomas ap Catesby, 44—45
Jordan, 195, 196, 202
Joseph II, Emperor of Austria, 12
Jutland, Battle of, 82
Kagan, Robert, 6, 225, 226
Karmal, Babrak, 200
Kay, David, 223—224
Kearny Stephen W., 51
Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, 108—109
Kennan, George F., 143—144, 146, 149
Kennedy John F., 158—159, 168—171, 173, 174, 242
Kennedy Paul, 62
Kent State University, 179
Kerensky. Alexander, 86
Kerry John. 225
Keynes, John Maynard, 80
Khan, Abdul Qadeer, 244—245
Khmer Rouge, 179
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruholla, 197—198, 200, 231
Khrushchev, Nikita, 167—171, 173, 175, 189, 242
Kim Ii Sung, 142, 152
Kim Jong Ii. 242. 243
King, Rufus, 16
Kipling, Rudyard, 70
Kissinger. Henry, 155—156, 178, 181, 182
Kolombangara, 130
Koran, 194
Korea, 64, 71
Korean War, 138, 151—156, 159, 160, 175
(see also North Korea; South Korea)
Kosovo, 213, 214, 219—221
Kostunica, Vojislav, 221
Kosygin, Alexei, 175
Kuril Islands, 121, 133
Kurusu, Saburo, 121, 122
Kuwait, 193, 195, 203—205
Kwajalein Atoll, 131
Lake, Anthony 217
Landes, David, 194
Lansing, Robert, 84
Laos, 142, 180
Lardner, Ring, 106
Latin America, 38—40, 65, 73—77, 187, 188
League of Nations, 1, 78, 91—93, 95, 109, 110, 113, 120
Lebanon, .90. 143, 193, 195, 201—202
Lee, Robert E., 32.49, 59—61
Lend-Lease Act of 1941, 116, 119
Leuchtenburg, William E., 106, 107
Lewis, Bernard, 194
Lewis, Meriwether, 22
Lewis, Sinclair, 106
Lewis and Clark expedition. 22—23
Libya, 241, 243—245
Lieberman, Joseph, 217
Lincoln, Abraham, 55—57, 60
Literature, 106
Livingston, Robert R., 18—21
Lloyd George, David, 87, 89—91, 95
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 68, 89, 91, 92, 100
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 174
Lon Nol, 179
Ludendorff, Erich, 84
Luftwaffe, 114
Lusitania (liner), 81—82
Lytton Commission, 110
MacArthur, Douglas, 129, 141, 151—154
Macedonia, 213, 220
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 90
Madison, Dolley 29
Madison, James, 28, 29, 39, 49
Madrid train bombing (2004), 247
Magic decoding program, 120, 121
Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 3—4. 64—66, 68, 71—73, 82
Mai Lai massacre, 179
Maine (battleship), 67
Makin Atoll, 130
Manchuria, 64—65, 71 72, 104, 109, 110, 132 133, 141, 150
Manhattan Project, 124—125, 134
Manifest Destiny 43—44, 54
Mao Zedong, 133, 148—150, 168, 230, 231
Mariana Islands, 69, 130-132, 134
Marroquín, José Manuel, 74
Marshall, George C., 126, 143, 146, 150, 151
Marshall Islands, 69, 131
Marshall Plan, 138, 146—148
Marxism, 146, 149
Massive retaliation, doctrine of, 160, 166
Matsuoka, Yosuke, 119
Mazu (Matsu), 158, 163—165
McDowell, Irwin, 60
McGarr, Lionel C., 177
McGovern, George, 182
McKinley, William, 37, 68, 71
McNamara, Robert S., 174, 180
Mead, Walter Russell, 139, 191
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 112
Mencken, H. L., 105
Metternich, Klemens von, 38
Mexico, 16, 36, 43, 45, 46, 73, 85
Mexican War of 1846—48, 42, 44, 47, 48, 50—54, 58, 60, 85
Midway Battle of, 130
Midway Islands, 122
Milosevic, Slobodan, 209, 212—214, 218—221
Mississippi River, 13, 14, 17, 18, 26
Missouri Compromise, 31, 56
Missouri River, 22, 24
Mladic, Ratko, 216
Moïsi, Dominique, 225
Monroe, James, 18—22, 35, 36, 39—41, 77
Monroe Doctrine, 1, 37, 40,41, 87, 91, 170, 249
Roosevelt corollary to, 76—77
Montgomery Bernard, 126
Morgan, J. P., 62
Moscow Conference of 1947, 143
Mubarak, Hosni, 197
Muhammad, 194
Multilateralism 210, 211
Munich beer hall putsch of 1923, 112
Munich Conference of 1938, 113, 228
Murrow, Edward R., 137
Musharraf, Pervez, 244
Mussolini, Benito, 103, 104, 109, 111, 123
Mutual deterrence, policy of, 145
Nagasaki, 134—135, 137, 141
Nagumo, Chuichi, 122
Nanjing massacre, 111
Napoleon Bonaparte, 15—18, 21, 26, 59, 195
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 166, 197
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 167
National Defense Act of 1916, 82
National Security Act of 1947, 145
National Security Council (NSC), 145, 163
Native Americans, 22—23, 27—28
Natural selection, 66
Naval Appropriation Act of 1916, 82
Netherlands East Indies, 111
Neutrality policy, 37, 81—83, 85. 86, 113, 118
New Georgia, 130
New Guinea, 129
New Orleans, Louisiana, 17—20, 22, 29—30, 48
New Zealand, 11, 79, 163
Nhu, Ngo Dinh, 174
Nicaragua. 73—74, 77. 188
Nimitz, Chester W, 129—131
9/l1, 2001 (see September 11, 2001)
Nine-Power Treaty of 1922, 100—101
Nixon, Pat, 181, 185
Nixon, Richard M.,157, 158, 178—182, 185—186, 193, 197
Nomura, Kichisaburo, 120—122
Normandy invasion of, 128
North, Lord, 12
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), 138, 148, 163, 215, 217, 218—220
North Korea, 138, 141—142, 151—155, 159, 160, 183, 225, 242—244, 250
North Vietnam (see Vietnam)
Northwest Ordinance, 32
Nuclear test ban treaty of 1963, 173
Nuclear weapons, 160—161, 164,167, 171—173, 224, 239, 241—246
- atomic bomb, 124—125, 133—135, 137, 141, 145, 147, 148, 172
O’Brien, Lawrence, 185
Oil, 192, 195, 197, 203—205
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 106
Okinawa, 132, 151
Olympic Games:
- 1972, 196—197
- 1980, 186, 200
O’Neill. Eugene, 106
Open Door policy, 65, 100
Oregon Country, 22, 35. 36, 44.46—48
Oregon Trail, 44
Orlando, Vittorio, 89, 90
Osirak nuclear reactor, Iraq, 199
O’Sullivan, John L., 43—44
P-51 Mustang fighters, 128
Pahlavi, Reza Shah, 198
Paine. Thomas, 11
Pakenham, Sir Edward, 30
Pakistan, 163, 237, 243—245
Palau Islands, 131
Palestine, 142—143, 202
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 196, 201, 202
Panama Canal, 65, 73—76, 170, 186
Panmunjom peace talks, 154
Paris, Treaty of (1783). 14,15
Paris Peace Conference of 1919, 89—91,93
Parker, Dorothy, 106
Parks, Rosa, 165
Patton, George S., Jr., 127
Peaceful coexistence, policy of, 158, 167, 168, 172, 182
Pearl Harbor, 2, 121—123, 226
Pentagon Papers, 180
Perestroika, 188, 189
Perle, Richard, 187
Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court), 93
Perry Oliver Hazard, 29
Pershing, John J., 88
Peters, Ralph, 165—166
Philippine Islands, 68—71. 129. 132, 135, 151, 163
Pierce, Franklin, 54
Ping-Pong diplomacy, 180—181
Placentia Bay Newfoundland, 120
Plattsburg, Battle of, 29
Poland, 83, 90, 113—114, 132. 133, 141, 166, 190
Polk, James K., 46—48. 51—54
Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine (PFLP), 196
Portsmouth Conference of 1905, 71
Potsdam Conference of 1945, 133, 140—141, 143
Pound, Ezra, 106
Powell, Cohn, 210, 211, 215
Powell Doctrine, 210—211
Pratt, Julius, 113
Presidential elections:
- 1844, 46—47
- 1916, 78, 82, 97
- 1920, 93, 105
- 1940, 116
- 1952, 155
- 1972, 182
- 1976, 186, 197
- 1980, 186, 199
- 2004, 225
Prevost, Sir George. 29
Prisoners of war (POWs), 154—155, 159, 182
Prohibition, 104, 105
Prostitution, 105
Prussia, 38, 43, 49. 59
Puerto Rico, 39, 66, 68—69, 72
Pulitzer, Joseph, 67
Puritanism, 105
al-Qaddafi. Muammar, 244
al Qaeda, 183, 201, 208. 223, 229—231, 236, 247, 250
Quadruple Alliance, 38—40
Quinn, Kenneth, 182
Radford, Arthur W, 164
Railroads, 62
Reagan, Ronald, 186—189, 193. 199, 201—202
Remington. Frederic, 67
Reparations. 83, 90, 107.
Repatriation Commission 155
Reserve Officers Training Corps
(ROTC), 50
Rhee, Syngman, 141, 153
Rhineland, 90, 104, 113
Rice, Elmer, 106
Ridgway, Matthew B., 154, 164
Rio Grande River, 46, 47
Roads, 26, 106
Rogers, William S., 181
Romania, 83, 90, 127, 133
Roosevelt. Franklin D., 112, 113, 115, 116, 118—125, 127,132—133, 138, 149
Roosevelt. Theodore, 65, 68, 71—77, 87, 89
Roosevelt corollary to Monroe Doctrine, 76—77
Root, Elihu, 87
Rosenberg. Ethel and Julius, 124
Ross, Robert, 29
Royal Air Force. 114
Rush. Richard, 39
Russia, 5, 38, 65, 71, 79—81, 83, 88,132, 133, 243
Russian Revolution of 1917, 81, 86, 101, 188
Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, 71 Rwanda, 212
Saar basin. 90
el-Sadat, Anwar, 197
al-Sadr, Moqtada. 232
Sahl, Mort, 185—186
Saint-Mihiel, France,
Saipan, 132
Sakhalin Island, 101,133
Sandburg. Carl, 106
Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de, 45—46, 51, 52
Saratoga, Battle of, 10, 11
Saudi Arabia, 194, 197, 203, 207, 237, 244, 246
Scheffer, Jaap de Hoop, 247
School desegregation, 165
Scott. Winfield, 29, 48, 51—52
Search-and-destroy system, 176, 177
Segregation, 165
Seoul, South Korea, 151, 152
September 11, 2001, 2, 5, 223. 226, 228, 235
Serbia, 80, 209, 211, 213—221
Seven Years War of 1756—63, ii, i5
Sharon, Arid, 236
Shelburne, Earl of 12, 14
Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862, 60
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 49, 60—61, 127
Shidehara, Kijuro, 98, 100, 101
Shultz, George, 201
Siberia, 97, 101, 119, 173
Sims, William S., 87
al-Sistani, Ali, 232
Six-Day War of 1967, 196
Slavery, 2, 31—33,44—46, 53, 55—57, 138—139
Slidell, John, 47
Slovenia, 213
Smith, Adam, 9, 10, 96
Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, 108
Social Darwinism, 66. 69, 70, 75
Solomon Islands, 126, 129, 130
Somalia, 192—193, 205—207, 212, 248
South Africa, II, 79
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO), 163
South Korea, 138, 141—142, 151—155, 159, 160, 242
South Vietnam (see Vietnam)
Soviet Union, 97,98
- Afghanistan. invasion of 186, 200
- atomic bomb and, 124—125
- China and, 158—160, 167, 168, 173
- cold war and, 145—148, 156—158, 167—173
- collapse of 2, 41, i~8, 170, 183, 184. 188—190, 221
- Cuban missile crisis and, 2, 157, 158, 170—172, 176
- division of Germany and, 132, 138, 143
- economy of, 107, 156, 158, 184—185, 187, 188, 190
- Korean War and, 152, 156
- North Korea and, 141—142
- peaceful coexistence policy, 158, 167, 168, 172, 182
- space program. 166—167
- Stalinism in. 137—13, 140, 185
- in United Nations, 140
- Vietnam and, 161—162
- World War II and, 113. 114,118—119, 124—127, 132—133, 184—185
Space program, 166—167
Spain, 11—17. 21, 22, 36. 38—39, 67—69. 146, 247
Spanish-American War of 1898. 62, 68. 70
Spruance, Raymond A., 131
Sputnik, 166
Stalin, Joseph, 5, 113, 114, 118, 124—125, 127, 132. 133, 137, 140—141, 145, 147, 149, 152, i~6. i8~, 203
Steamboats, 26
Steel industry 62—63
Stimson, Henry L., 109
Stock market crash, 108
Stockton, Robert F., 51
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (Henderson). 6i
Strait of Hormuz, 198
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
(SALT I), 181—182
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
(SALT II), 186, 187
Strategic-defense initiative (SDI). 186—187, 189
Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams), 139—140
Strong, Josiah, 66
Submarine warfare:
- in World War I, 81—82, 84—88
- in World War II, 115, 118, 125
Suez Canal, 166, 195, 197
Sun Tzu, 231
Survival of the fittest, 66
Syria, 90, 143, 193. 195—197. 201. 237, 244
Taiwan, 64, 150—152, 160, 163—165, 168
Talbott, Strobe, 215
Taliban, 201, 223, 224, 229, 231
Talleyrand-Perigord. Charles-Maurice de, 19, 21, 234
Tarawa, 130
Taylor, Zachary 47, 50—51
Tecumseh, 27, 30
Tenet, George J.. 224
Terrorism, 2, 5, 183, 192—208. 223—231, 235—240. 243. 244, 246—250
Tet offensive, 177, 178
Textile industry 30, 61
Thailand, 129, 163
Thayer, Sylvanus, 49
Tinian, 132, 134
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 24—25, 34, 43
Tracy, Benjamin F., 66
Transportation, 26, 62, 106—107
Tripartite Pact of 1940, 115
Trist, Nicholas P. 52—54
Trollope, Fanny 34—3 5
Truk, 131
Truman, Harry S., 133, 134, 138, 140—142, 144, 145, 147, 148, 150—155
Truman Doctrine, 145, 150, 153
Tuchman, Barbara, 83
Turkey, 39, 8i, 140, 142, 145. 171. 195, 237
Turner, Frederick Jackson. 9, 25—26, 63
Twining, Nathan F., 164
Tyler, John, 46,47
Union Army of the Potomac, 58—61
United Nations, 5, 92, 140, 151, 153—155, 203. 204, 206, 210, 213, 214—216, 232, 233, 248—249
United States Military Academy West Point, 49, 50
United States Naval Academy Annapolis, 49, 50
United States Navy, 3—4, 51—52, 65, 68, 69, 72, 73, 76, 82, 95—99, 115, 121—123, 125, 131, 135
Universal manhood suffrage, 34
U-2 spy plane incident, 168
USS Cole, 208
USS Enterprise, 121
USS Indiana, 66
USS Iowa, 66
USS Lexington, 99, 121
USS Massachusetts, 66
USS Missouri, 135
USS Nevada, 82
USS Oklahoma, 82
USS Oregon, 66
USS Pennsylvania, 82
USS Saratoga, 99, 122
Van Buren. Martin, 46
van Gogh. Theo, 247
Vann. John Paul, 176
Vella Lavella, 130
Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 104, 113
Vietcong, 163, 173—179, 182, 183
Vietminh (Vietnamese Independence League), 161
Vietnam, 142, 160—162
Vietnam War, 2, 157—159, 174—180, 182, 186, 197, 212, 230, 233
Virginia Military Institute, 50
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 165
aI-Wahhab, Muhammad ibn Abd, 194, 195
Wake Island, 121
Walker. Robert J., 52
War of 1812, 25, 26, 28— 30, 37, 48
Washington. D.C.. 29, 60
Washington, George, 12
Washington Conference of 1940—41, 116
Washington Naval Conference of 1921, 4, 97—102, 104, 110
Watergate, 185, 197
Wealth and Poverty of Nations, The (Landes), 194
Wealth of Nations. The (Smith), 9
Weapons of mass destruction
(WMDs) 223—224, 241
West Bank, 143, 202
West Germany 146—148, 169—170
Westward migration. 8—9, 24—27. 30, 35, 36,44,47, 63
Weyler, Valeriano, 67
White, Theodore H., 178
Whitney Eli, 31
Wiesel, Elie, 210, 212
Wieseltier, Leon, 217
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 73
Williams, Tennessee, 139—140
Wilson, Woodrow, 78, 80—86, 89—93, 95—96, 97, 99, 105, 210
Wolfe, Thomas, 105
Women’s rights, 33—34,104—105, 165—166
World on Fire (Chua), 187. 234
World Trade Center, New York:
- 1993 bombing of, 205
- 2001 destruction of, 223
World Trade Organization, ~
World War I, 1,4, 37, 77—91. 113, 210, 229. 249
World War II. 1—2, 4, 103—106, 113—136. 210, 229, 249, 250
Yalta Conference of 1945, 132—133, 140
Yalu River, 153, 155
Yardley, Herbert, 98
Yeltsin, Boris, 220
Yemen, 208
Yom Kippur War of 1973, 197
Yorktown, Virginia, 12
Yugoslavia, 80, 91, 127. 133. 211, 213
Zapatero, José Luis Rodríguez, 247—248
al-Zarqawi. Abu Musab, 235
Zhou Enlai, 153, 164, 180, 181
Zimmermann, Alfred, 85
Zimmermann telegram. 85, 86