Tet offensive (1968)
use of Agent Orange
use of helicopters
‘Vietnamization’
Vilna
Vinde, Pierre
Vladikavkaz
Volcker, Paul
Volga Famine (1921-2)
Volga river
Volhynia
Volkswagen (automobile manufacturer)
Volobuyev, P. N.
Volvo (automobile manufacturer)
voodoo
Vorkuta
Voroshilov, Kliment
Vuskovic, Pedro
Waeyenbergh, Mgr Honoré van
wages councils (British)
Wagner, Richard
Parsifal
Wagner, Wieland
Wajda, Andrzej
Walden, George
Walder, Andrea
Waldheim, Kurt
Walentynowicz, Anna
Wałęsa, Lęch
Wall Street
(film)
Wall Street Journal
Walpole, Robert, 1st Earl of Orford
Walters, Sir Alan
Wandlitz
Warburton, Peter
Warnock, Mary, Baroness
Warsaw:
post-war reoccupation
Uprising (1944)
‘Washington consensus’
Washington Post
Watergate scandal
Watkins, Alan
Waugh, Evelyn
Wehner, Herbert
Weimar Republic
Weinberger, Caspar
Weinstock, Arnold, Baron
Weizsäcker, Richard von
Wells, H. G.
Werfel, Franz
Werfel, Roman
Werner, Pierre
West Berlin:
access agreements with East
birth rate
Brandt as mayor
isolation of
student population
subsidies
symbolism of
war damage
Weizsäcker as mayor
see also
Berlin Wall
West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany):
agriculture
automobile industry
balance of payments
birth rates
Bundesbank (Federal Bank)
Catholic Church
Christian Democrats (CDU)
coal production
Communist Party
conservatism
constitution
contraceptivedevelopment
cultural institutions
economic miracle
education system (
see also
universities)
elections: (1965); (1969); (1972)
establishment of West German state
and European Atomic Community
and European Economic Community
exports
fiftieth anniversary
floating of currency
Franco-German reconciliation
Free Democrats (FDP)
Grand Coalition (SPD-CDU)
Green Party
‘guest workers’
and Helsinki conference (1975)
immigration from East Germany
income per capita
inflation
intelligentsia
introduction of
Deutsche Mark
and Kurdish nationalism
‘Little’ coalition (SPD-FDP)
missile bases
NATO membership
neo-Nazism
and nuclear weapons
Ostpolitik
peasantry
political institutions
privatizations
productivity levels
protectionism
rearmament
Red Army Faction
refugee leagues
regional policy
relations with Poland
relations with USSR
reunification
shipbuilding
Social Democrats (SPD)
Soviet gas supplies
Sozialmarktwirtschaft
steel production
taxation
television
terrorism
trade unions
traffic policy
treaties with East Germany (1971-2)
Turkish immigrants
universities
welfare system
Western European Union
Westland affair (‘Westgate’; 1986)
Westmoreland, William
Weyand, Frederick.
Whampoa Military Academy, China
White, Harry Dexter
White, Stephen
Whitelaw, William, 1st Viscount
Wilde, Oscar
Wilson, Harold, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx
Wilson, Jan
wind power
Windsor, Philip
winter weather of 1946-7
Wörner, Manfred
Wohlstetter, Albert
Wojtyła, Karol see John Paul, Pope
Wolf, Markus
Wolfe, Tom:
Bonfire of the Vanities
‘Radical Chic’
Wolle, Stefan
women, working
Wordsworth, William
World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
World Trade Organization
Wozniak, Stephen
WRON (Polish national security council)
Wyatt, Woodrow, Baron Wyatt of Weeford
Xenophon,
Anabasis
Xerox (corporation)
Yakovlev, Aleksandr
Yale, Linus
Yale University
Yalta
Yalta conference (1945)
Yangtze river
Yekaterinburg
Yeltsin, Boris
Yemen
Yenan
Yergin, Daniel
‘yobs’
Yol
(film)
Yom Kippur War (1973)
Young, Hugo
Yugoslavia:
Albanians in
and Algerian war
civil wars and disintegration
communist takeover
Ecevit tours
ethnic groups
and GreekWar
and Hungarian uprising of 1956
instability
‘Little Entente’
nationalism
neutrality
partisans
Party expelled from Cominform
relations with USSR
strategic importance
wartime resistance movements
Yunan province
‘yuppies’
Yuzovka (Donetsk)
Z
(film)
Zagreb
Zaisser, Wilhelm
Zana, Leyla
Zay, Jean
Zeeland
Zeit
,
Die
(newspaper)
Zeldovitch, Y. B.
Zenkl, Peter
Zhdanov, Andrey
Zhukov, Georgy
Zia-ul-Huq, Muhammad
Zimbabwe
Zink, Harold
Zinoviev, Grigory
Zola, Émile
Zollverein
(German Customs Union)
Zonguldak
Zorin, Valerian
Zürcher, Erik
Zurich
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The War of the British Succession
Chapter 2 - Cold War
Chapter 3 - Marshall
Chapter 4 - The NATO System
Chapter 5 - Communism in China
Chapter 6 - The World at the Death of Stalin
Chapter 7 - Khrushchev
Chapter 8 - Europe and the Wider World
Chapter 9 - Europe 1958
Chapter 10 - The Sixties
Chapter 11 - Berlin-Cuba-Vietnam
Chapter 12 - America in Vietnam
Chapter 13 - Nixon in China
Chapter 14 - Unravelling
Chapter 15 - 1968: A Generation
Chapter 16 - Atlantic Crisis 1974-1979
Chapter 17 - ‘The British Disease’
Chapter 18 - Europe: The Phoenix Flops
Chapter 19 - The Kremlin Consolations
Chapter 20 - Reaction
Chapter 21 - Atlantic Recovery: ‘Reagan and Thatcher’
Chapter 22 - Reagan
Chapter 23 - Brumaire: Two Coups
Chapter 24 - The Eighties
Chapter 25 - Floréal
Chapter 26 - Chichikov
Chapter 27 - Restoration
Chapter 28 - ‘Ending History’
Further Reading
Index
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - The War of the British Succession
Chapter 5 - Communism in China
Chapter 6 - The World at the Death of Stalin
Chapter 8 - Europe and the Wider World
Chapter 11 - Berlin-Cuba-Vietnam
Chapter 12 - America in Vietnam
Chapter 15 - 1968: A Generation
Chapter 16 - Atlantic Crisis 1974-1979
Chapter 17 - ‘The British Disease’
Chapter 18 - Europe: The Phoenix Flops
Chapter 19 - The Kremlin Consolations
Chapter 21 - Atlantic Recovery: ‘Reagan and Thatcher’