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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

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)

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,”

Callender, James Thomson

Calles, Plutarco

Cambodia; and France; Khmer Rouge in;
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)

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