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Authors: James MacGregor Burns
see also
campus movement; civil rights movement; peace movement; women’s liberation movement
Social Security,
75
,
77
,
78
,
86
,
90
,
112
,
566
Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill,
191
Sofaer, Abraham,
495
Solidarity movement,
644
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.,
489
,
532
,
538
Sombart, Werner,
542
Somoza, Anastasio,
330
Sorensen, Theodore,
324
,
332
,
334
,
374
,
412
South:
black voter registration,
356
,
378-81
,
382-4
Democratic party in,
118
,
354
,
382
,
460
(see also
Democratic party, Southern wing) Democratic-Republican balance-shifting,
250-1
,
382
,
460
,
640
,
657
“Other South,”
353
racial tension,
315-16
,
321-3
,
348-58
,
361-9
,
378-85
; white anti-black violence,
352
,
357
,
361-2
,
365
,
368-9
,
372
,
380
,
382-4
,
386
union organization lagging in,
48-9
state government,
354
white domination,
354-5
Southeast Asia,
265
,
337-8
,
339
,
341
(see also
Indochina; Vietnam)
Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty,
265
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization,
189
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC),
356
,
357-8
,
366-9
,
371
,
379
,
382-3
,
399
Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union,
49
South of Freedom
(Rowan),
314
South Vietnam,
401-3
,
411
,
417-20
,
480-4
,
489
,
493-4
see also
Vietnam War
Souvestre, Marie,
8
American perceptions and misperceptions of,
220-2
,
227-8
,
229
,
233-4
,
241-2
,
254
,
262
,
526-8
and Communist China,
260
,
265
,
405
,
469
,
472
,
474-6
,
485-6
,
488
,
526-9
domination of Eastern Europe,
210-11
,
221
,
226
,
229
,
258
,
469
encircled with US bases,
265
,
286
,
334-5
,
337
,
527
and India,
340
invasion of Afghanistan,
529
,
531
,
626
Jews in,
488
Korean War blunder of,
241-2
,
260
and Middle East,
265
,
486-7
,
488
,
526-7
misperceptions of America in,
220-1
,
233-4
,
241-2
,
260
,
262
,
301-2
,
491
,
527
1939 pact with Nazi Germany,
151
,
159
,
197
,
260
nuclear weapons of,
259
,
264
,
333-5
,
527
; A-bomb,
239-40
; H-bomb,
256
postwar territorial gains,
206
,
207-8
space program,
259
,
578-80
,
581
,
582
,
584
,
586
Stalinism,
20
,
202
,
221
; denounced,
260
US relations with,
202
,
218
,
220-2
,
225-9
,
232-4
,
253-4
,
476-9
,
485-9
,
523
,
526-9
,
643
(see also
Allies, World War II; arms control; arms race; cold war; détente; human rights; summit meetings)
and Vietnam,
405
,
418
,
476
,
478
,
488
in World War II,
167
,
175
,
177-8
,
180
,
196-7
,
206
,
211
,
223-4
; as ally,
202
; against Japan,
207-8
,
225
,
226
space exploration:
Soviet,
259
,
278-80
,
581
,
582
,
584
,
586
US,
259
,
268
,
542
,
579-87
; Reagan militarization of,
585-6
space shuttle program,
582-4
,
585
Spain, Spanish Civil War,
149
,
156
Sparkman, John,
250
special interest politics,
80
,
126
,
552
,
592
,
646
Congress and,
107
,
192
,
642
,
647-8
special prosecutor,
505
speech, freedom of,
281
,
395-6
,
654
,
666
Spencer, Herbert,
42
,
560
,
562
,
625
Spock, Benjamin,
409
Springsteen, Bruce,
660
Stalin, Josef,
7
,
52
,
105
,
123
,
151
,
159
,
160
,
202
,
259
denunciation of,
260
FDR and,
198
,
207-8
,
210-11
,
217
,
341
postwar stance toward West,
227
,
229
,
232
,
233
,
238
and United Nations,
178
,
208
,
211
,
223
in World War II,
196-7
,
207
,
211
,
222
; at Potsdam,
224-5
,
226
; at Teheran,
195
,
198-9
; at Yalta,
159
,
206-8
Stanford University,
542
Stars and Stripes
(services journal),
188
State Department,
471
charges of communism against,
231-2
,
243-5
,
252
,
471
states’ rights,
10
,
11
,
13
,
43
,
236
,
562
civil rights issues and,
352
States’ Rights (Dixiecrat) party,
237
,
238
Steagall, Henry B.,
24
steel industry:
JFK price rollback,
651
production,
101
,
264
; wartime,
183
wartime female labor,
188
Steel Workers Organizing Committee,
99-100
Stegner, Wallace,
58
Steichen, Edward,
593
Steinem, Gloria,
439
Stennis, John,
376
Stevenson, Adlai F.,
249
,
286-7
,
289
,
324
,
325-6
,
373
,
494
,
677
in Cuban missile crisis,
334
,
337
presidential candidate: 1952,
249-51
,
252
; 1956,
257
,
286
,
287
Stieglitz, Alfred,
593
Stilwell, General Joseph W.,
201
,
470
,
495
Stimson, Henry L.,
17
,
41
,
163
,
169
,
170
,
180
,
186
,
216
,
224
,
236
,
328
,
593
stock market,
669
Black Monday of 1987,
661
Black Tuesday of 1937,
101
1937-38 recession,
104
Stokowski, Leopold,
605
Stone, Harlan, F.,
71
,
82
,
95
,
130
,
667
Stone, I. F.,
407
Strategic Defense Initiative,
586
strikes,
273
air controllers (1981),
638-9
wartime,
187-8
Structuralism,
624
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),
358
,
361-3
,
364
,
366
,
379-80
,
383
,
384
,
392
Women’s Liberation Workshop,
442
students:
in civil rights work in South,
380
; lunch-counter sit-ins,
356-7
: SNCC,
358
,
361-3
,
364
1960s to early 1970s unrest,
394-7
,
413-14
,
421-3
,
425
,
460
,
532
,
548
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),
392-3
,
407
,
409-10
,
417
,
421-2
,
442
Studs Lonigan
(Farrell),
143-4
Styron, William,
620
suburbia,
278-9
,
280
,
285
,
436
,
453
,
573-4
Suckley, Margaret,
212
Suez crisis of 1956,
257
,
286
,
288
Sullivan, Ed,
430
Sullivan, John L.,
307
summit meetings, postwar,
488
1955, Geneva,
257
1959, Washington,
260-1
1960, Paris, aborted,
261-2
,
476
1974, Moscow and Vladivostok,
488
,
523
1979, Vienna,
529
Sumner, William Graham,
42
,
560
,
625
Sumners, Hatton,
93
Sundquist, James,
321
Sun Yat-sen,
337
supply-side economics,
639-40
,
641
Supreme Court, US,
87-96
,
116
,
321
,
646
,
651-5
,
667
Bakke
quota system case,
653
court-packing plan of FDR,
93-6
,
105
,
118
; alternatives to,
89-92
Curtiss-Wright case,
156
Dred Scott decision,
652