Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America From Colonial Dependence to World Leadership (134 page)

Read Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America From Colonial Dependence to World Leadership Online

Authors: Conrad Black

BOOK: Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America From Colonial Dependence to World Leadership

11.2Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

Read Book Download Book

Great Depression

Great White Fleet

Greece: and Britain; Cold War missiles in; Mussolini in; in NATO; and Truman Doctrine

Greeley, Horace

Greenback Labor Party

Greene, Nathanael

Grenada

Grenville, George

Grenville, Thomas

Gresham, Walter Q.

Grew, Joseph

Grey, Sir Edward

Gromyko, Andrei ; and arms control; and Cuban missile crisis; and Vietnam

Gruenther, Alfred

Guadeloupe

Guam

Guatemala

Guichen, Luc Urbain du Bouëxic, Count de

Guiteau, Charles J.

Gulf War (1991)

Habsburg Empire: and Bismarck; end of; fragments of; Franz Ferdinand assassination ;
see also
Austria

Hacha, Emil

Hagerty, James

Hague, Frank

Haig, Alexander M.

Haile Selassie

Haiti

Haldeman, Bob

Halifax, Edward Wood, Lord

Hall, Fawn

Halleck, Henry

Hamas

Hamilton, Alexander; vs. Adams; adultery of; ambitious agenda of; and Constitution; on Bill of Rights; as counselor; on debt; duel death of; on French Revolution; influence of; vs. Jefferson; on meritocracy; monarchism of; as Treasury secretary

Hamilton, Lee

Hamlin, Hannibal

Hammarskjöld, Dag

Hampton, Wade

Hancock, John

Hancock, Winfield Scott

Hanna, Marcus Alonzo

Hanover

Harding, Warren G.; and Hoover; naval disarmament; on world court

Harriman, Averell; and Korean War; and Marshall Plan; in Moscow; as New York governor

Harriman, Job

Harrison, Benjamin

Harrison, William Henry; and Indian wars; at Tippecanoe; in War of 1812

Hart, Gary

Harvey, Robert

Hastings, Warren

HavelVáclav

Hawaii; annexation of; coup in; Pearl Harbor base

Hawke, Sir Edward

Hay, George

Hay, John Milton; and China; and Panama

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Hayes, Rutherford B.

Hay-Herran Convention

Hayne, Robert

Hay-Paunceforte Treaty

Hearst, William Randolph

Heath, Edward

Helms, Richard

Helsinki Accords

Hemings, Sally

Hendricks, Thomas A.

Henry, Patrick; and Constitutional Convention

Herriot, Edouard

Herter, Christian

Hezbollah

Hindenburg, Paul von

Hirohito, Emperor

Hiss, Alger

Hitler, Adolf; anti-Semitism of; Austria annexation; as chancellor; and Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland); FDR’s fear of; France invasion; Greece invasion; and Hearst; and Japan; and Munich Agreement; and North Africa; Norway invasion; Nuremberg rallies; and Poland; Rhineland occupation; Russia invasion; and Stalin; suicide of; and Yugoslavia

Hoare-Laval Pact

Hobart, Garret A.

Ho Chi Minh; as communist believer; and Nixon

Holborne, Francis

Hollande, François

Holy Alliance

Holy Roman Empire

Homestead Act

Homestead Strike

Honduras

Hood, John Bell

Hooker, Joseph

Hoover, Herbert C.; on “American System,” and “Bonus March,” and Commerce Department; on gold standard; on New Deal program; on Prohibition; reelection campaign; on reparations; and stock-market crash

Hoover, J. Edgar

Hopkins, Harry

House, Edward Mandell

Houston, Sam

Howe, Geoffrey

Howe, George Augustus, Viscount

Howe, Julia Ward

Howe, Louis McHenry

Howe, Richard, Lord (Admiral)

Howe, William (General)

Huerta, Victoriano

Hughes, Charles Evans; as chief justice; and naval disarmament

Hull, Cordell; on de Gaulle; on Japanese aggression; on Korean War; Roosevelt on

Hull, William

Hulsemann, Johann Georg

Human Rights Watch

Humphrey, Hubert H.; and McGovern

Hungary; as democratic republic; Soviet power in; uprising;
see also
Austria-Hungary

Hurley, Patrick

Hussein, King of Jordan; an dNixon; and PLO

Hussein, Saddam: and Gulf War; and Iraq War (2003)

Hutchinson, Thomas

Ickes, Harold

immigration; curtailment of; free vs. slave states; illegal; and Know-Nothings; open; suspicion of; “Yellow Peril,”

impeachment

income tax; in McGovern platform; Reagan cuts

Independent Treasury Act

India: British Empire in; and Bush agreement; and East Pakistan; independence movement; in Seven Years’ War

Indiana Territory

Indians (Native Americans): Black Hawk War; as British allies; demonization of; Fort Mims massacre; in French & Indian Wars; and Gallatin; and Jackson; and Jumonville massacre; at Little Big Horn; and Office of Indian Affairs; at Tippecanoe; Treaty of Greenville ; in War of 1812

Indochina;
see also
Vietnam

Indonesia; as communist domino ;
see also
Dutch East Indies

industry; and GNP growth; and monopolies; and tariffs; trade embargoes

Influence of Sea Power on History The
(Mahan)

Ingersoll, Jared

Inonu, Ismet

International Atomic Energy Agency

International Bureau of American Republics

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

Interstate Commerce Commission

Iran: Khomeini & hostage crisis; Mossadegh regime; and Reagan; Shah of

Iraq: coup in; Gulf War (1991)

Iraq War; and democracy aim

Ireland; immigrants from; and Northern Ireland

Ishii, Kikujito

Israel; and Camp David Accords; creation of; and Egypt; and Gaza; and Gulf War; and Lebanon; and Oslo Accords; Six-Day War (1967); Yom Kippur War

Italy: Communist Party in; and Mafia trial; Popular Front in; provisional government; unification of; and World War II

Jackson, Andrew: and Bank of the U.S.; Calhoun purge; on Clay; economic policy; Florida invasion; Force Bill; as improbable president; Indian removal; in Indian wars; and nullification; as presidential candidate; on public works; slavery policy; spoils system; and Texas; toughness of; on Union preservation; in War of 1812; Whig opposition; White House parties

Jackson, Henry M.

Jackson, Jesse

Jackson, Rachel

Jackson, Richard

Jackson, Thomas J. (Stonewall)

Japan: battleship building; British alliance; vs. China; economic bubble in; embargo on; in Great Depression; Hiroshima; on Iwo Jima; Lansing-Ishii Agreement; MacArthur reforms in; Meiji Restoration; and Nixon; on Okinawa;
Panay
attack; Pearl Harbor attack; Perry’s opening; surrender of; Taft-Katsura Agreement; tension with; in World War I; in World War II

Jay, John; and Justice Department; as New York governor; treaty with Britain

Jay’s Treaty

Jefferson, Thomas; vs. Adams; on Alien & Sedition Acts; on Anglo-Saxon Britain; on “apostates,” on Articles of Confederation; and Barbary pirates; on Bill of Rights; and Burr trial; and Canada; and Committee of Correspondence; and Continental Congress; and Declaration of Independence; death of; Embargo Act; and Federalists; in France; on French Revolution; as hypocrite; informal style of; on “Intolerable Acts,” and Lewis & Clark expedition; and Louisiana Purchase; Military Academy founding; political skill of; as polymath; presidency of; as presidential candidate; as propagandist; as romantic revolutionary; rural ideal of; as secretary of state; and slavery; spending cuts; on suffrage;
Summary View of the Rights of British America
; on trade policy; and University of Virginia; as vice president; Virginia constitution; as Virginia governor

Jews: vs. Arabs; and Hitler; Lieberman; and Palestine Mandate; and Pompidou; as refugees;
see also
Israel

Joffre, Joseph

John Paul II, Pope

Johnson, Hiram W

Johnson, Andrew; impeachment of; presidency of; as senator

Johnson, Hershel Vespasian

Johnson, Joseph E.

Johnson, Louis A.

Johnson, Lyndon B.; Civil Rights Act; Great Society; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Higher Education Act; and Humphrey; on immigration; on Kennedy staff; and Kosygin; legislative control; on McCarthy; Medicare / Medicaid; reelection of; and southern vote; space program; on Suez crisis; as vice president; and Vietnam; Voting Rights Act; War on Poverty; World War II service

Johnson, Richard M.

Johnson, William Samuel

Johnston, A.S.

Johnston, Joseph E.

Jordan: and Israel; and Lebanon; and Nixon; and Syria

Jordan, Vernon

Juárez, Benito

Judiciary Reorganization Bill

Kalinin, Mikhail

Kaltenborn, H.V

Kames, Henry Home, Lord