Worldmaking (116 page)

Caribbean Sea

Carter, Jimmy

Casablanca Conference (1943)

Casey, William J.

Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount

Castro, Fidel

Central America

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Central Powers

Chalabi, Ahmed

Chamberlain, Neville

Chekhov, Anton

chemical weapons

Cheney, Dick

Chiang Kai-shek

Chicago, University of

Chile

China

Chomsky, Noam

Christopher, Warren

Churchill, Winston S.

Civil War, U.S.

Clarke, Richard

Clausewitz, Carl von

Clemenceau, Georges

Cleveland, Grover

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary

Cold War

Cold War, The
(Lippmann)

Colombia

Columbia University

Columbus, Christopher

Commentary

Committee on the Present Danger (CPD)

Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy

communism

concentration camps

Confederacy

Congress, U.S.

Congress of Vienna (1815)

Constitution, U.S.

Constitutional Convention (1787)

Constitutional Government in the United States
(Wilson)

Contest for Supremacy, A
(Friedberg)

Coolidge, Calvin

Copenhagen Summit (2009)

Coughlin, Charles

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Crimea

Cronkite, Walter

Cross-Currents in Europe Today
(Beard)

Crowninshield, Arent Schuyler

Cuba

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

Cuban Revolution

Czechoslovakia

Czolgosz, Leon

Daladier, Édouard

Daniels, Josephus

Darwin, Charles

Davidson, Daniel

Davies, John Paton

Davis, Jefferson

Debs, Eugene V.

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The
(Gibbon)

Decline of the West, The
(Spengler)

Defense Department, U.S.

Defense Policy Guidance (DPG)

de Gaulle, Charles

Democratic Party

“destroyers-for-bases” deal

Dewey, George

Dewey, John

Dewey, Thomas E.

“Dictatorships & Double Standards” (Kirkpatrick)

Diem, Ngo Dinh

Disraeli, Benjamin

Dobrynin, Anatoly

Dole, Bob

Dominican Republic

“domino theory”

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Dow Jones Industrial Average

Dreams from My Father
(Obama)

Dukakis, Michael

Dulles, Allen

Dulles, John Foster

Dumbarton Oaks conference (1944)

Eagleburger, Lawrence

Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, An
(Beard)

Egypt

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

elections, U.S.: of 1900; of 1910; of 1912; of 1916; of 1918; of 1920; of 1924; of 1932; of 1936; of 1944; of 1948; of 1952; of 1956; of 1960; of 1964; of 1968; of 1972; of 1976; of 1980; of 1988; of 1992; of 1996; of 1998; of 2000; of 2004; of 2008; of 2012; of 2014; of 2016

electoral college

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Engels, Friedrich

Entente Powers

Ethiopia

Europe, Central

Europe, Eastern

Europe, Western

fascism

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Federalist, The

Federal Reserve System

Feith, Douglas

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Ford, Gerald R.

Foreign Affairs

foreign policy: alliances in; appeasement in; armaments in; as art vs. science; Atlanticism in; balance-of-power system in; blockades in; colonialism in; congressional influence in; covert action in; decision making in; declarations of war in; democratic principles in; diplomatic relations in; disarmament in; economic aspect of; espionage and; ethnic self-determination in; historical precedent in; imperialism in; insurgencies in; international law in; interventionism in; isolationism in; leadership in; materialism in; military preparedness in; moral dimension of; nationalism in; nuclear weapons in; pacifism in; peace and stability as goal of; pragmatism in; projection of power in; propaganda in; protectionism in; realism in; regime change in; spheres of influence in; in wartime

Foreign Policy for America, A
(Beard)

Forrestal, James

Fortune

Founding Fathers

France: colonies of; German invasion of; U.S. relations with; in World War I; in World War II

Franco, Francisco

Franco-Prussian War

Frankfurter, Felix

French Revolution

Freud, Sigmund

Fukuyama, Francis

Fulbright, J. William

Future of Iraq, The

Gaddafi, Muammar

Gaither, H. Rowan

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Gandhi, Indira

Gandhi, Mohandas K.

Gates, Robert

Geneva Conference (1954)

Geneva Convention (1863)

genocide

Germany

Germany, East

Germany, Imperial; at Paris Peace Conference (1919)

Germany, Nazi: appeasement of; as Axis Power; defeat of; Jewish persecution in; U.S. opposition to; Versailles Treaty repudiated by; in World War II

Germany, West

Gibbon, Edward

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Goldwater, Barry

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Gore, Al

Grant, Ulysses S.

Great Britain: appeasement policy of; empire of; French rivalry with; German threat to; in Paris peace negotiations; U.S. relations with; in World War I; in World War II

Great Depression

Great Recession

Greece

Guantánamo Bay

Guatemala

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)

Gulf War

Haas, Richard

Haig, Alexander M., Jr.

Hamilton, Alexander

Hamlet
(Shakespeare)

Hannibal

Hardie, James Keir

Harding, Warren

Harper's Magazine

Harriman, W. Averell

Harvard University

Hawaii

Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)

Hay, John

Hearst, William Randolph

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Helms, Jesse

Helsinki Accords (1975)

Henry Kissinger and the American Century
(Suri)

Hiroshima
(Hersey)

Hiroshima bombing (1945)

History of Rome, The
(Mommsen)

History of the American People, A
(Wilson)

Hitchens, Christopher

Hitler, Adolf

Hobbes, Thomas

Ho Chi Minh

Holder, Eric

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Holocaust

Hoover, Herbert

Hoover, J. Edgar

House, Edward

House of Representatives, U.S.

Huerta, Victoriano

Hughes, Charles Evans

Hughes, Emmett

Hull, Cordell

Hull House

Humphrey, Hubert

Hungary

Huntington, Samuel

Hussein, Saddam

hydrogen bomb

Idea of the National Interest, The
(Beard and Smith)

India

Indochina

Indonesia

Indo-Pakistani War

Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, The
(Mahan)

intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987)

Iran

Iranian hostage crisis

Iranian Revolution

Iran-Iraq War

Iraq

Iraqi National Army

Iraq War

Islamic fundamentalism

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)

Israel

Italy

Jackson, Andrew

James, William

Japan: China invaded by; defeat of; empire of; militarism in; U.S. relations with; in World War I; in World War II

Jefferson, Thomas

Jews

John Paul II, Pope

Johnson, Louis

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S.

Kant, Immanuel

Kazin, Alfred

Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)

Kennan, George F.; Acheson's relationship with; Arab-Israeli conflict as viewed by; Atlantic relations as viewed by; Beard compared with; Cold War as viewed by; communism as viewed by; conservatism of; containment doctrine of; democracy as viewed by; diaries of; as diplomat; FDR as viewed by; foreign policy as viewed by; German spoken by; Gorbachev as viewed by; G. W. Bush as viewed by; in Hamburg; as historian; influence of; Iraq War as viewed by; Kissinger compared with; Lippmann compared with; “Long Telegram” of; Marxism as viewed by; memoirs of; at Moscow embassy; Nazi Germany as viewed by; Nitze compared with; nuclear policy of; as Policy Planning Staff (PPS) director; political views of; press coverage of; realism of; reputation of; as Soviet expert; speeches of; Stalin as viewed by; at State Department; Truman's relationship with; United Nations as viewed by; Versailles Treaty as viewed by; Vietnam War as viewed by; Wilson as viewed by; writings of; “X Article” of

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy, Joseph P.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Kerry, John

Keynes, John Maynard

Khamenei, Ayatollah Ali

Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah

Khrushchev, Nikita

Kim Il-Sung

King, Coretta Scott

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kipling, Rudyard

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Kissinger, David

Kissinger, Henry; back-channel diplomacy of; Cambodia policy of; as centrist; Chilean coup supported by; China policy of; Cold War as viewed by; communism as viewed by; conservative opposition to; criticism of; “decent interval” doctrine of; democracy as viewed by; Democratic Party and policies of; détente policy of; diplomatic career of; duplicity and subterfuge of; foreign relations as viewed by; as Harvard professor; Helsinki Accords and; as historian; Indo-Pakistani War and; influence of; as intellectual; Jewish background of; as JFK consultant; Kennan compared with; Lippmann compared with; Metternich as model for; Middle East policy of; military force as viewed by; moral values of; at Moscow Summit (1972); as national security adviser; Nazism as viewed by; Nitze compared with; Nixon's relationship with; nuclear strategy as viewed by; in Paris peace negotiations; press coverage of; realism of; Republican Party supported by; reputation of; as Rockefeller aide; as secretary of state; sense of humor of; “shuttle diplomacy” of; strategic arms limitation policy of; Vietnam policy of; Watergate scandal and; Wilson as viewed by; Wolfowitz compared with; writings of; Zhou's meetings with

Kissinger, Louis

“Kissinger rule”

Korean War

Kosovo

Krauthammer, Charles

Kristol, Irving

Kristol, William

Kurds

Kuwait

Kuwaiti, Abu Ahmed al-

Lafayette, Marquis de

Laird, Melvin

Lake, Anthony

Laos

Laval, Pierre

League of Nations

Le Duc Tho,
See
Tho, Le Duc

Lee, Robert E.

Lee Kuan Yew

Lehman Brothers

Lenin, V. I.

Lerner, Max

Lessons of the War with Spain
(Mahan)

Libby, I. Lewis “Scooter”

Libya

Life

Lincoln, Abraham

Lindbergh, Charles

Lippmann, Jacob

Lippmann, Walter; Atlanticist doctrine of; Beard compared with; correspondence of; democracy as viewed by; diplomacy as viewed by; economic views of; fascism as viewed by; FDR as viewed by; foreign policy as viewed by; at Harvard University; influence of; on Inter-Allied Propaganda Board; internationalism as viewed by; as interventionist; isolationism as viewed by; Jewish background of; Kennan compared with; Kissinger compared with; Mahan compared with; Nazism as viewed by; Nitze compared with; political views of; progressivism of; prose style of; public opinion as viewed by; realism of; Republicans as viewed by; “Russian Orbit” concept of; social sciences as viewed by; Soviet Union as viewed by; Truman's relationship with; United Nations as viewed by; Vietnam War as viewed by; Wilson criticized by; writings of

Lloyd George, David

Locke, John

Lodge, Henry Cabot

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.

London Economic Conference (1933)

Lothian, Philip Kerr, Lord

Lovett, Robert

Luce, Henry

Luce, Stephen B.

Lusitania
sinking (1915)

MacArthur, Douglas

MacDonald, Ramsay

Machiavelli, Niccolò

Madison, James

Mahan, Alfred Thayer; as Anglophile; Beard compared with; as commander and sailor; death of; at First Hague Conference; foreign trade as viewed by; influence of; Kennan's views on; Kissinger's views on; Lippmann compared with; materialism of; naval strategy advocated by; political views of; racial views of; realism of; Spanish-American War as viewed by; T. Roosevelt's relationship with; Wilson compared with; World War I as viewed by; writings of

Mahan, Dennis Hart

Mahan, Mary Okill

Mailer, Norman

Maine
, USS, explosion of (1898)

Malcolm X

Manchuria

Manhattan Project

Mao Zedong

Marcos, Ferdinand

Marcos, Imelda

Marcuse, Herbert

Marine barracks bombing (1983)

Marshall, George

Marshall Plan

Marx, Karl

Marxism

Marxism-Leninism

“massive retaliation” doctrine

McCain, John

McCarthy, Eugene

McCarthy, Joseph

McChrystal, Stanley

McCloy, John

McGovern, George

McKinley, William

McNamara, Robert

“Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee and Kant, The” (Kissinger)

Mearsheimer, John

Mein Kampf
(Hitler)