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     Yeltsin and,
31
,
52
–55,
70
,
75
–76,
78
–79

Australia,
191

Austria-Hungary,
25

Aylwin, Patricio,
247

Babri Mosque,
247

Bacon, Roger,
199

Baghdad Pact,
211

Bakatin, Vadim,
94
–95

Baltic States,
16
,
46
,
48
,
52
,
57
,
58
,
65
,
70
,
168

Bangladesh,
197

Bannister, Roger,
280

Begin, Menachem,
219

Bell, Daniel,
157

Ben-Gurion, David,
221

Benin,
250

Berlin blockade,
16

Berlin Wall,
14
,
17
,
119

Bismarck, Otto von,
68

Black September,
195

Bolivia,
249

Brady bill,
295

Brazil,
212
,
249
,
250

Brezhnev, Leonid,
46
,
48
,
57
,
61
,
81
,
82
,
185

Bulgaria,
16
,
17
,
135

Burma,
see
Myanmar

Bush, George,
131
,
169
,
258
,
265

     German reunification and,
136
,
138

     nuclear weapons and,
83
,
84
–86,
88
–89,
142
,
279

     
Persian Gulf War and,
29
–30,
34
–35,
225
,
300

Byelorussia,
53
,
57

Cambodia,
17
,
19
,
28
,
155
,
170
,
180
,
188
,
233
,
260
,
261

Camp David accords,
207
,
220
–21,
226
,
229
–30

Canada,
36

Cape Verde Islands,
250

Carter, Jimmy,
216
,
229

Carter Doctrine,
211

Castro, Fidel,
17
,
20
,
93
,
259
,
260

Central America,
36
,
155
,
260

Central Command, U.S.,
216

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
49
,
50
–51,
81
,
93
,
94

Central Treaty Organization,
211

Ceylon (Sri Lanka),
28
,
233

Chad,
196
,
252

Chambers, Whittaker,
36
,
198

Chernenko, Konstantin U.,
82
,
187

Chernobyl disaster,
57
,
76

Chile,
246
–47,
249
,
262

China, People's Republic of,
13
,
16
–17,
20
,
26
,
49
,
61
,
148
,
149
,
184
,
187
,
190
,
191
–92,
195
,
196
,
206
,
212
,
238
,
240
,
241
,
276

     Cultural Revolution in,
166
,
168
–169

     exchange programs and,
179

     GATT and,
176

     geographic isolation of,
165
,
183

     Gorbachev's visit to,
20
,
179

     growth of,
163
–65,
167

     Hong Kong and,
181
–82

     human rights record of,
172
–78,
182
,
185
,
193

     leadership of,
172
–73

     modernization of,
181

     most-favored-nation status of,
174
–76

     1949 civil war and,
164
,
237

     nuclear capability of,
163

     nuclear proliferation and,
180

     political change in,
177
–78,
179

     pro-democracy movement in,
179

     reforms in,
164
,
166
–68,
170
–171,
175
,
182
,
241

     Soviet border dispute with,
164

     Soviet rapprochement with,
20
,
38
,
184
,
187
–88

     Taiwan and,
170
,
181
,
241

     U.S. relationship with,
164
–66,
169
–70,
173
–74,
176
,
178
–179,
182

     U.S. trade surplus with,
176

     world economy and,
167
–68

China, Republic of,
see
Taiwan

Churchill, Winston,
105
,
114
,
305

Clausewitz, Carl von,
157

cold war,
81
,
113
–14,
123
,
124
,
125
,
126
,
145
,
270
,
273
,
302

     course of,
16
–18

     demise of,
14
–15,
209
–10

     West Germany and,
119
–20

Colombia,
246
,
249
,
265

colonialism,
208
,
256

communism,
14
,
16
,
18
,
24
,
67
,
69
–70,
75
,
102
,
109
,
183
,
246
,
248
,
270
,
273
,
277
,
304

     August coup and,
30
–31,
70
–71

     in Cuba,
259

     end of history and,
21

     free-market democracy and,
79
–80

     Gorbachev's loyalty to,
43
–44,
53
–55,
63
–64,
95
–96

     Islamic opposition to,
198

     nationalism and,
55
–59

     poverty and,
233
,
235

     Soviet, collapse of,
122
–24

Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE),
127
–28,
210

Congo,
17

Congress, U.S.,
124
,
162
,
217
,
225
,
251
,
272
,
276
,
286
–87

Congress of People's Deputies, Soviet,
66
,
70

Constitution, U.S.,
56

Constitutional Democrats,
72

Conventional Forces in Europe treaty (CFE),
27
,
83
–84,
212

Convention for the Limitation of the Spread of Missile Technology,
213

Council of Mutual Economic Assistance,
115

coup (August 1991),
see
August coup

crime,
292
,
295

Croatia,
126
,
135

Cuba,
20
,
171
,
250
,
257
,
260
,
261

     Soviet aid to,
17
,
52
,
91
,
93

     U.S. relations with,
259

Cultural Revolution,
166
,
168
–69

Czechoslovakia,
16
,
17
,
19
,
90
–91,
115
,
127
–29,
130
,
132
,
134
,
135

debt-for-equity swaps,
269

debt relief,
269

Defense Intelligence Agency,
93

deficit, federal,
286

de Gaulle, Charles,
36
,
59

de Klerk, Frederik W.,
28
,
258

democracy,
33
–34,
37
,
40
,
50
,
70
,
118
,
289
,
299
,
301

     in Eastern Europe,
118
,
301
–2

     in Latin America,
248
–50

     in Soviet Union,
301
–2

     in underdeveloped world,
247
–51

Democracy in America
(Tocqueville),
289

Democracy Wall,
168

Democratic Party, U.S.,
273

Democratic party of Russian Communists,
72

democratic socialism,
102
–4

Democratic Union,
72

Deng Xiaoping,
99
,
168
,
172
,
188

     economic reforms of,
166
–67,
170
–71,
175
,
182
,
241

De Soto, Hernando,
262

Dominican Republic,
264
–65

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor M.,
302

drugs,
291
,
292
,
294

Dulles, John Foster,
221

Durant, Will,
199
,
231

Economist, The
,
283
–84

education,
242
,
281
–86,
292
,
298

Egypt,
17
,
155
,
197
,
198
,
202
,
206
–207,
209
,
216
,
219
–22,
253

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
59
,
141

Eisenhower Doctrine,
211

El Salvador,
17
,
28
,
260

end of history, myth of,
21
–23

Enemy of the People
(Ibsen),
58
–59

enterprise funds,
132
,
268

entitlement programs,
287
,
290
–91

Eritrean Liberation Front,
250

Estonia,
16
,
57
,
58

Ethiopia,
17
,
91
,
246
,
250
,
252
,
263
,
267

Europe, Eastern,
14
,
15
,
16
,
31
,
38
,
62
,
81
,
113
,
126
,
155
,
168
,
179
,
183
,
220
,
248
,
260
,
268
,
273
,
277
,
287
,
304

     decline of communism in,
18
–19

     democracy in,
118
,
301
–2

     economic transformation of,
131
–134

     EEC and,
131
,
134

     ethnic conflicts in,
134
–36

     Gorbachev and economy of,
90
–91

     nationalism in,
128
–29,
134
–36

     NATO and,
127
–31

     NED and,
251

     Rapallo Treaty and,
120

     reform in,
14
–15,
27
–28

     security vacuum in,
116
–17

     Soviet domination of,
114
–15

     Soviet Union and economy of,
90
–91,
134

     Soviet Union and security of,
116
–17

     U.S. and,
131
–34

Europe, Western,
23
,
30
,
32
,
36
,
97
,
126
,
131

     Gorbachev's vision of,
112
–13

     
Islamic culture contrasted with,
198
–99

     Middle East and,
210
–11

     protectionism in,
122

     unification of,
121
–22,
299

     U.S. presence in,
116
–18,
124
,
127
,
140
–41,
144
–45

     vulnerability of,
115
–16

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
132

European Economic Community,
116
,
119
,
121
–22,
135
,
141
,
264
,
267

     Eastern Europe and,
131
,
134

     Persian Gulf War and,
126

     Turkey and,
206

exports,
244
–45,
264
–67

Fang Lizhi,
177

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
93

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