Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America From Colonial Dependence to World Leadership (133 page)

BOOK: Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America From Colonial Dependence to World Leadership
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Eagleton, Thomas
 
Early, Jubal T.
 
East Germany; and Berlin Wall; opening & reunification
 
East India Company
 
East Pakistan
 
Eaton, John
 
Eaton, Peggy O’Neal
 
Eden, Anthony; and Balkans settlement; on German division; and Roosevelt meeting; and Suez crisis; on Turkish president
 
Edward VII, King
 
Edwards, John
 
Egypt; Aswan Dam; and Camp David Accords; and Israel’s Sinai attack; Mubarak ouster; Six-Day War; and Suez crisis; and Yom Kippur War
 
Ehrlichman, John
 
Einstein, Albert
 
Eisenhower, Dwight D.; achievements; as Anglophile; at Buchenwald; budget discipline; and Castro; and China; and Churchill; and CIA; Cold War de-escalation; and Columbia University; command structure; containment strategy; and Cuban exiles; and D-Day (Overlord); and defense economy; and de Gaulle; and desegregation; domino theory; and Formosa Resolution; and Germany; heart attack; and hostile Congress; and ICBMs; and Indochina; interstate highway project; and Khrushchev; and Korean War; and Latin America; and Lebanon; and Marshall; and McCarthy; and Mossadegh; and NASA; and Nasser; as NATO commander; and Nixon; nomination maneuvering; North Africa command; on nuclear weapons; Open Skies plan; presidential draft effort; public approval; reception abroad; reelection; show of strength; and space program; and
Sputnik
; and Stalin; stroke; and Suez crisis; and Truman; and U-2 fiasco; and Vietnam; in World War II; and Yalta agreements
 
Eisenhower, Milton
 
Eisenhower Doctrine
 
Electoral College; in Bush-Gore election; in Hayes—Tilden election; in Jefferson—Burr election; and three-fifths rule; and vice presidency; and Washington
 
Elizabeth, Czarina
 
Elizabeth II, Queen
 
Ellsberg, Daniel
 
Ellsworth, Oliver
 
El Salvador
 
Ely, Paul
 
Emancipation Proclamation
 
Embargo Act (1807)
 
Endara, Guillermo
 
Enfant, Pierre-Charles l’
 
English, William H.
 
Enlightenment
 
Entente Cordiale
 
Enterprise
, USS
 
Environmental Protection Agency
 
Erie Canal
 
Erskine, David
 
Ervin, Sam
 
Estaing, Charles Henri (Admiral), Count d’
 
Ethiopia
 
European Advisory Commission
 
European Commission
 
European Common Market
 
European Defense Community
 
European Parliament
 
European Union
 
Eustis, William
 
Everett, Edward
 
Everts, William Maxwell
 
Explorer
1
 
 
Fairbanks, Charles W
 
Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia
 
Fall, Albert B.
 
Farley, James A.
 
Farouk, King of Egypt
 
Farragut, David
 
Fatah
 
Fauchet, Joseph
 
Faure, Edgar
 
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
 
Federal Republic of Germany; and Reagan; and reunification;
see also
Germany
 
Federal Reserve; and Roosevelt; and subprime mortgage crisis; Volker policy
 
Federal Trade Commission Act
 
Federalist Papers
 
Federalist Party; divisions among; and immigrants; vs. Jefferson; weakening of; and Whigs
 
Fenno, John
 
Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prince
 
Ferguson, Patrick
 
Ferraro, Geraldine
 
Fillmore, Millard; and Know-Nothings
 
Finch, Robert
 
Finland
 
Fish, Hamilton
 
Fisk, Jim
 
Foch, Ferdinand
 
Forbes, John
 
Ford, Gerald R.; vs. Carter; Nixon pardon; as president
 
Formosa;
see also
Taiwan
 
Formosa Resolution
 
Forrestal, James V.
 
Forsyth, John
 
Fort Duquesne
 
Fort Edward
 
Fort Frontenac
 
Fort Necessity
 
Fort Ticonderoga (Carillon)
 
Fort William Henry
 
Foster, John
 
Foster, Stephen
 
Foster, William Z.
 
Fox, Charles James; and naval blockade
 
France; and Algeria; and American Revolution; British defeat of; and Canada; and Civil War; Colbert’s economics; Communists in; and Convention of 1800; declining power of; and embargo; on European Defense Community; Fifth Republic; general strikes in; and Genêt’s privateers; German occupation of; greatness of; in Indochina / Vietnam; and Jackson; and Kellogg-Briand Pact; liberation of; and Louisiana Territory; and Mexico; Monroe in; and Morocco; Napoleonic Wars; and Panama Canal Company; Prussian defeat of; Resistance in; Revolution of 1848; and Rhineland occupation; in Seven Years’ War; ship seizures by; Spain invasion; and Statue of Liberty; and Suez crisis; and Texas; Third Republic instability; transitory government in; Vichy regime; XYZ affair;
see also
French Revolution
 
Franco, Francisco
 
Franco-American Treaty of Friendship
 
Franco-German Friendship Treaty
 
Franco-Prussian War
 
Franklin, Benjamin; as abolitionist; on American potential; and Braddock; on Canada; and Committee of Safety; and Constitution; constitution proposal; death of; and Declaration of Independence; diplomacy in London; esteem for; FDR comparison; and France; grand council proposal; on Intolerable Acts; at Paris peace talks; and Penn family; as polemicist; and son; on Stamp Act; on Townshend taxes
 
Franklin, William
 
Franks, Tommy
 
Franz Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria
 
Franz Joseph, Emperor
 
Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia
 
Frederick William, King of Prussia
 
Freedmen’s Bureau
 
Free Soil Party
 
Frelinghuysen, Frederick T.
 
Frelinghuysen, Theodore
 
Frémont, John C.
 
French and Indian Wars. See Seven Years’ War
 
French Revolution; and Terror
 
Freneau, Philip
 
Frick, Henry Clay
 
Friedman, Milton
 
Fries, John
 
Fuchs, Klaus
 
Fugitive Slave Act; and
Dred Scott
 
 
Gadsden Purchase
 
Gallatin, Albert; and War of 1812
 
Gambier, James, Lord
 
Gandhi, Indira
 
Gandhi, Mahatma
 
Gardner, Augustus
 
Garfield, James Abram
 
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
 
Garner, John Nance
 
Garrison, Lindley
 
Garrison, William Lloyd
 
Gates, Horatio
 
Genet, Edmond Charles (Citizen)
 
Geneva Accord
 
Geneva Convention
 
George, Walter
 
George I, King
 
George II, King
 
George III, King; demonization of; domestic opposition to; on Franklin; intransigence of
 
George V, King
 
George VI, King
 
Gerasimov, Gennadi
 
Germany: banking collapse in; Berlin blockade; Berlin Wall; Federal Republic recognized; Kennedy’s Berlin speech; and Khrushchev; Kristallnacht; and NATO; as naval & colonial power; Nazi rise; occupation zones in; rearmament of; reparations by; reunification of; and revenge; and Samoa; as semi-giant; unification of;
see also
East Germany; Federal Republic of Germany; Prussia; World War I; World War II
 
Gerry, Elbridge
 
gerrymandering
 
G.I. Bill of Rights
 
Gibbon, Edward
 
Giddings, Joshua
 
Giraud, Henri
 
Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry
 
Giuliani, Rudolph
 
Gladstone, William Ewart
 
Glaspie, April
 
Godkin, Edwin L.
 
Goering, Hermann
 
Goethals, George Washington
 
Goldman, Emma
 
Gold Rush: Alaska; California
 
gold standard; Hoover on; repeal of
 
Gold Standard Act (1900)
 
Goldwater, Barry M.
 
Gomulka, Wladyslaw
 
Gone with the Wind
(film)
 
Gorbachev, Mikhail; and arms reduction; and Bush; coup against; and Cuba; and German reunification; on “human face” of communism; on satellite states; and Soviet disintegration
 
Gore, Al
 
Goulburn, Henry
 
Gould, Jay
 
Gousev, Feodor
 
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of
 
Graham, William
 
Grand Army of the Republic
 
Grant, Ulysses S.; in Civil War; and Lee surrender; as president; and Sherman
 
Granville, John Carteret, Lord
 
Grasse, François Joseph Paul, Count de
 
Graves, Sir Thomas
 
Great Britain; and Alaska border; appeasement by; Bank of England; and Bering Strait; and Canada; capitalism in; and Central America canal; Chatham colonial bill;
Chesapeake
attack; on Civil War; Communist spies in; and D-Day; and debt; debt claims by; on European integration; and Falklands; Franklin in; and French rivalry; Glorious Revolution; and Guatemala; and Hanover ; and Indian tribes; individual rights in; “Intolerable Acts,” and Iraq War; and Japan alliance; and Korean War; and Latin America; maritime impressments by; and Mossadegh; and Pacific Northwest; and Pax Britannica ; political dissent in; Quebec Act; representation in; and Samoa; Settlement Act; and slavery; social reform in; and Soviet defectors; Stamp Act; and Suez crisis; taxing power; terrorism in; Townshend taxes; and War of 1812; and Webster policy; and West Indies;
see also
American Revolution; Seven Years’ War; World War I; World War II

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