Authors: Conrad Black
Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America From Colonial Dependence to World Leadership (131 page)
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Anglo-Japanese Alliance
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
Anglo-Prussian Convention
Anglo-Russian Treaty (1825)
Angola
Annunzio, Gabriele d’
Anson, George, Lord
Anti-Masonic Party
Arafat, Yasser; and Second Intifada; and Sept. 11 attacks
Arbenz, Jacobo
Arbuthnot, Alexander
Arbuthnot, Mariot (Admiral)
Argentina; and Falklands; Germans in
Armstrong, John
Arnold, Benedict
Arthur, Chester A.
Articles of Confederation
Arvey, Jake
Ashburton, Alexander Baring, Lord
Asquith, H.H.
Assad, Hafez al-
Astor, John Jacob
Atlantic Charter
atomic bomb.
See
nuclear weapons
See
nuclear weapons
Atomic Energy Commission
Attlee, Clement
Atwater, Lee
Austin, Moses
Austin, Stephen E.
Australia; British dissenters in; refugees in; and SEATO; in World War II
Austria: and Bismarck; and Congress of Vienna; and French war; and Hitler; and Seven Years’ War
Austria-Hungary; vs. Serbs; trade with; and Wilson; World War I casualties
Ayub Khan, Mohammad
Azerbaijan
Babcock, O.E.
Bacon, Robert
Badoglio, Pietro
Baghdad Pact
Baker, Howard
Baker, James A.; and Bush v. Gore; and German reunification; and Gulf War; and Iraq War
Baker, Newton D.
Balfour, James
Ballinger, Richard
Bancroft, George
Bank of the United States; and Jackson; and Madison
Barak, Ehud
Barbary pirates
Barkley, Alben W
Bates, Edward
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of
Batista, Fulgencio
“Battle Hymn of the Republic,”
Bayard, James A.
Bayard, Thomas F.
Bayard-Chamberlain Treaty
Beauregard, Pierre G.T.
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, Lord
Beckford, William
Bedell Smith, Walter
Bedford, Gunning
Begin, Menachem
Belgium; and Congo; secession by; and World War I
Belknap, WW
Bell, John
Belmont, August
Benedict XV, Pope
Ben Gurion, David
Benson, Allan
Benton, Thomas Hart
Bentsen, Lloyd
Bergamini, Carlo
Beria, Lavrenti
Beria, Sergio
Berkman, Alexander
Bernstorff, Johann-Heinrich, Count von
Bevin, Ernest
Biddle, Nicholas
Biden, Joseph
Bigot, François
bin Laden, Osama
Bishop, Maurice
Bismarck, Otto von; on American rise; anti-Catholicism of; and Austria-Hungary; on Balkans; dismissal of; and Samoa; and social insurance
Black, Eugene
Black, Jeremiah S.
Black Hawk War
Blaine, James G.
Blair, Francis
Blair, John
Bland-Allison Act
Blount, James
Blount, William
Blunt, Anthony
Bogart, Humphrey
Bohlen, Charles E.
Bolivar, Simón
Bolsheviks
Bonaparte, Napoleon I.
See
Napoleon I (Bonaparte)
See
Napoleon I (Bonaparte)
Bonvouloir, Julien Alexander Achard, Chevalier de
Borah, William E.
Borden, Sir Robert L.
Bork, Robert
Boscawen, Edward
Bosnia
Boston Tea Party
Bowers, Claude
Bowles, Chester
Braddock, Edward
Bradley, Joseph P.
Bradley, Omar N.; in Korean War; vs. MacArthur; at Potsdam; and Vietnam
Bradley, William
Bradstreet, John
Bragg, Braxton
Brandt, Willy
Braun, Eva
Breckinridge, Henry
Breckinridge, John C.
Bremer, Paul
Brereton, Lewis H.
Brezhnev, Leonid; and Afghanistan; at arms-control talks; death of; and Nixon; on Vietnam; and Yom Kippur War
Brezhnev Doctrine
Briand, Aristide
Bricker, John W
British Commonwealth; and Churchill; and World War II
British Guyana
Brock, Isaac
Brooke, Sir Alan; at Cairo Conference; vs. Marshall; at Quebec Conference; at Tehran Conference
Brooks, Preston
Brown, B. Gratz
Brown, Edmund G.
Brown, Jerry
Brown, John
Brown v. Board of Education
Brunswick, Ferdinand, Duke of
Brunswick, Louis, Duke of
Bryan, Charles
Bryan, William Jennings; and Darwinism; on Philippines; popularity of; as presidential candidate; as secretary of state; as Wilson backer; and World War I
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
Buchanan, James; and Fort Sumter; presidency of; as presidential candidate; on secession; as secretary of state; on slavery issue
Buchanan, Pat
Buckley, James
Budget Act of 1921
Buell, Don Carlos
Bulganin, Nikolai
Bulwer, Sir Henry Lytton
Bundy, McGeorge
Bunau-Varilla, Philippe
Bunker, Ellsworth
Burchard, Samuel D.
Burgess, Guy
Burgoyne, John
Burke, Edmund; sympathy for Americans
Burma; Nixon in; in World War II
Burnside, Ambrose E.
Burr, Aaron; duel & murder charge; and Jefferson; and Tammany Hall; treason trial
Bush, George H.W.; election campaigns; and German reunification; and Gorbachev; and Gulf War (1991); and Iraq Study Group; Japan visit; and Noriega; qualifications of; and Somalia; as vice president
Bush, George W; and Afghanistan; and banking crisis; democracy agenda; election of; and India agreement; and Iraq War; reelection of; and Sept. 11 attacks; War on Terror
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of
Butler, Andrew
Butler, Benjamin
Butler, Pierce
Butler, Rab
Butler, Smedley
Butler, William O.
Byng, John
Byrd, Harry F.
Byrnes, James F.
Cadogan, Sir Alexander
Cadore, Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny, Duke de
Cairncross, John
Calhoun, John C.; and Bank of the U.S.; and Clay;
Disquisition on Government
; as secretary of state; sidelining of; and slavery issue; on states’ rights; and Tariff of Abominations; as vice president; as war hawk; vs. Webster; and Whig Party; as “Young Demosthenes,”
Disquisition on Government
; as secretary of state; sidelining of; and slavery issue; on states’ rights; and Tariff of Abominations; as vice president; as war hawk; vs. Webster; and Whig Party; as “Young Demosthenes,”
Callender, James Thomson
Calles, Plutarco
Cambodia; and France; Khmer Rouge in;
Mayaguez
incident; and Vietnam War
Mayaguez
incident; and Vietnam War
Cambon, Jules
Cambon, Paul
Cameron, Simon
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry
Canada; American venture in; banking prudence; and Bering Strait; border settlement; and de Gaulle; Fenian invasion; and fishing rights; and France; Franklin on; natives in; Quebec Act; rebels from; and Suez crisis; trade with; and Treaty of Paris; unification of; and War of 1812
Canadian Reciprocity Treaty
Canning, George
Cárdenasázaro
Carleton, Sir Guy (Lord Dorchester)
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnegie Steel
Carranza, Venustiano
Carroll, Daniel
Carter, Jimmy; Camp David Accords; on civil rights; defense cuts; on human rights; and Iran; on neutron bomb; and Panama Canal; reelection campaign; and SALT II; and Sandinistas ; stagflation under
Casablanca
(film)
(film)
Casaroli, Agostino Cardinal
Casey, William
Cass, Lewis; and Indian wars; as presidential candidate; as secretary of state
Castillo Armas, Carlos
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Lord; and Congress of Vienna
Castro, Fidel; and Bay of Pigs; in Central America; and Eisenhower
Catherine II (the Great), Empress
Catholicism; and Cleveland election; and FDR coalition; Ferraro; hostility to; and Kennedy;in Quebec; Smith candidacy; Taney; and Washington
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