The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (131 page)

Tlacaelel, 158

Tlaloc, 157

Tlaxcala, 177, 178

Tlemcen, 283

Toghon Temur, 141

Tojo, Hideki, 416, 560

Toktamish, 149–50

Tokyo, 65, 375, 405, 415

Tolstoy, Leo, xvi

Tong Guan, 114

Tongzhou, 302

Tonina, 96

“tories” (
tóraidhe
), 232, 313

Totila, King of Goths, 76–77

Toulon, 261

Toungoo dynasty, 195

Tours, 308

Trafalgar, Battle of, 264

Trajan, Emperor of Rome, 24, 71, 192

Trajan’s Column, 192

Tran dynasty, 153

Transoxiana, 148

Trans-Siberian Railroad, 363, 364

Transvaal, 327

Trasimene, Lake, 18

Trebia, 18

Trebizond, 353

Treblinka concentration camp, 408

Trinity, 62

Trinity–Saint Sergius monastery, 212

Triple Alliance, 346, 561

Triple Entente, 346

Tripoli, 83, 85, 102, 105

Trocha, 334

Trojan War, 23, 193, 535, 556

Trotsky, Leon, 367, 382, 383, 386, 535

Troy, 23, 193, 535, 556

Truman, Harry, 441, 442, 444

Tryphon, 29

Tsavo River, 82

Tso Tsung-t’ang, 302–3

Tu Fu, 92

Tumbes, 178–79

Tungabhadra River, 144, 145

Tunis, 85

Tunisia, 77, 85, 459

Tuol Sleng, 493

Turabi, Hassan al-, 463

Turchin, Peter, 576
n

Turkey, 34, 86, 99–100, 191, 192, 237–39, 247, 248, 259, 262, 263, 294, 316–19, 338, 345, 351–52, 353, 356, 370–71, 400, 439, 444, 510, 531, 544, 546, 596
n
–97
n,
600
n

Turkistan, xv, 88, 364

Turkmen, 151

Turks, 88, 99–106, 122, 151–52, 211, 237–38, 243, 390, 537, 554, 558

Turner, B. L., II, 97

Tushino, 210, 211

Tutsi, 191, 192, 357, 519–22, 523, 560

Twain, Mark, 108
n,
330, 556

Tyre, 7

Tyrol, 345

U-boats, 353–54, 406

Uganda, 280, 484–85, 523, 524–26, 527

Ugandan Civil War, 501–2, 503, 531, 548

Uglich, 208, 210

Ukraine, 35, 67, 110, 111, 123, 190, 210, 248, 359, 361, 362, 364–66, 370, 384, 388–89, 403, 422

Ulm, Battle of, 264

Ulster, 231

UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948), 190
n

UN High Commissioner on Refugees, 616
n

Unit 731 biological warfare lab, 409

United Nations, 171, 190
n,
378, 432, 441, 442, 444, 445, 459, 489, 495, 505, 513, 514, 515, 517, 518, 521, 560, 616
n

United States, xiv, 83, 108, 161, 170–71, 181–87, 243
n,
259, 270, 272, 274, 299–301, 315, 331, 334, 335, 337, 338, 340, 341, 342, 356, 359, 361, 363, 364, 377, 378, 379, 387, 390, 398, 400, 402, 403, 405–6, 409, 411, 416–17,
417,
418, 421, 422, 423, 439–45, 452, 463, 465–75, 476, 481, 488, 490, 491, 499, 500, 506, 507–8, 509, 510–11, 514–16, 517, 519, 533, 537, 553, 558

Universal History
(Sale), 196
n

UN Population Fund, 560

Ural Mountains, 245, 384, 388, 404

Urban II, Pope, 99

Urlanis, Boris, 318

Uruguay, 304–5

Usher, Dan, 572
n

Ustase, 191

Usti nad Labem, 423

Utrar, 120, 121

Utrecht, 251

Uwilingiyimana, Agathe, 520–21

Uxmal, 96

Uzbekistan, 153

Valens, Emperor of Rome, 60–61,
63,
65

Valentinian I, Emperor of Rome, 60, 61,
63

Valentinian II, Emperor of Rome, 62,
63

Valentinian III, Emperor of Rome,
63,
65, 66–67

Valerian, Emperor of Rome, 69

Valois dynasty, 199, 202–3, 204

Varanasi, 234

Vassy, 200

Vegetarian Demon Worshippers,
see
Manichaeans

Velásquez (colonial governor of Cuba), 177–78

Vendee region, 260

Venezuela, 183

Venice, 67, 104, 196
n,
237, 239

Venizelos, Eleftherios, 370

Veracruz, 177, 341, 343

Vercingetorix, 39

Verdun, Battle of, 350

Vermont, 170

Vernadsky, George, 590
n

Versailles, 249, 259

Versailles, Treaty of, 354, 356, 425

Vespasian, Emperor of Rome, 50, 536

Vestal Virgins, 61

Vesuvius, 29

Vickery, Michael, 495

Vicksburg, Battle of, 300

Victoria, Lake, 325

Victoria, Queen of England, 311, 324

Vienna, 65, 237–38, 262, 269

Vienna, Congress of (1814–15), 269

Vienna, Siege of, 237–38

Viet Cong, 465, 467, 468, 469–70, 471, 473

Viet Minh, 425, 426, 494

Vietnam, 110, 154–55, 195, 338, 418, 454, 456, 465–73, 474, 490–91, 492, 493, 494–95, 506, 513, 529, 530, 531, 533, 537, 545, 547, 552, 561

Vietnam War, 454, 465–73, 474, 490, 492, 506, 513, 529, 533, 537, 545, 552

Vijayanagar, 144–45, 531, 546, 552

Villa, Pancho, 339, 340, 341, 342, 356

Vinnitsa, 388–89

Virginia, 161, 166, 181, 185, 189, 299

Virgin Islands, 164

Vistula River, 410

Vitalian, 111

Vlad III (the Impaler), Prince of Wallachia, xiii, 394

Vladivostock, 364

Volga River, 211

Voltaire, 108
n,
160, 168

Vo Nguyen Giap, 426

Vonnegut, Kurt, 415
n

Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping History
(Aaronovitch), 386
n

Vorkuta labor camp, 385

Vosges, 38

Wagram, Battle of, 264, 265

Waldenses, 557

Wales, 133

Walker Report, 437

Wallachia, 294, 316, 394

Wallenstein, Albrecht von, 217

Wang, Dowager Empress, 44, 45,
45

Wang dynasty, 44–45

Wang Feng, 44

Wang Gen, 44

Wang Mang, 44–46,
45,
47, 48, 54, 538

Wang Shang, 44

Wang Wan, 43
n,
45

Wang Yin, 44

Wang Yu, 44–45

Wannsee Conference (1942), 407–8

Ward, Frederick, 292, 293

War in the Modern Great Power System
(Levy), 557

War of 1812, 270

War of the Allies (Social War), 32–33, 531, 547

War of the Austrian Succession, 252–53, 257, 338, 531, 543, 551, 590
n

War of the Grand Alliance, 338, 557

War of the League of Augsburg, 557

War of the Roses, 138

War of the Spanish Succession, 249–51, 307, 338, 531, 547, 551, 557, 592
n

War of the Three Henrys, 203–4

War of the Triple Alliance, 272, 304–6, 531, 544

Warsaw, 366, 407, 410

Warsaw ghetto, 407, 410
n

Warsaw ghetto uprising (1943), 410
n

Warsaw uprising (1944), 410

Washington, Booker T., 330

Washington, DC, 65

Washington Post,
303
n

Watergate scandal, 485

Waterloo, Battle of, 269, 295

Way of the Celestial Masters, 55

Weatherford, Jack, 115–16, 578
n

Wehrmacht, 401, 410, 414, 423

Wei Changhui, 290, 291

Wei kingdom, 9, 44–45, 53, 56, 57

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 265

Wendi, Emperor of China, 78

West Berlin, 390

Western Region, Nigeria, 478, 479

Western Roman Empire, 26, 59–73, 137, 529, 551

Western (Wailing) Wall, 51

West Indies, 164, 174–75

West Pakistan, 481–83

Westphalia, Treaty of (1648), 221

Weyler, Valeriano, 334–35

White Lotus sect, 141

White Mountain, Battle of, 217

White Nile River, 323

White Sea, 244

“Who Was General Tso and Why Are We Eating His Chicken?” (Browning), 303
n

Why People Believe Weird Things
(Shermer), 420
n

Wikipedia, xvii
n

Wilde, Oscar, 331

Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, 307, 308, 344, 356

Wilhelm Gustloff,
411

Willow Palisade, 226

Wilson, Colin, 137
n

Wilson, Woodrow, 340

Winchester armaments, 336

Winthrop, John, 184

Witigis, King of Goths, 76

Wolseley, Garnet, 322, 324

Woo, John, 54

World Bank, 498

World Crisis, The
(Churchill), 370
n

World Health Organization (WHO), 560

World of Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture, The
(Maenchen-Helfen), 70
n

World War I, xv, 123, 191, 221, 229, 270, 296, 336, 338, 344–58, 359, 360, 364, 368, 387, 388
n,
400, 401, 403, 510, 516, 519, 529, 533, 535, 537, 541, 544, 545, 551, 558, 561, 563, 565

World War II, xvi, 108, 190, 191, 219, 221, 248, 270, 338, 354, 357, 365, 374–78, 382, 386, 387–89, 390, 396, 400–424,
412,
417,
427, 439, 445, 454, 456, 467, 470, 513, 529, 533, 537, 540, 541, 545, 546, 549, 550, 551, 554
n,
560–61, 563, 564

Worms, 99

Wounded Knee massacre (1890), 181, 182, 562

Wright, Lori, 96

Wright, Orville and Wilbur, xv

Wu, Harry, 437

Wuchang, 289

Wuhan, 372, 374

Wu kingdom, 9, 53, 57

Wurttenberg, 259, 307

Wurzburg, 220

Wu Sangui, 223, 227, 229

Wyclife, John, 198

Wyoming Valley, 182

Xenophon, 194

Xerxes, King of Persia, 3, 4

Xiaguan (Dali), 297, 298

Xian (Chang’an), 48–49, 55, 89, 90, 91, 302

Xian, Emperor of China, 55–56, 57

Xilonen, 158

Xin dynasty, 43–49, 54, 85, 93, 529, 533, 544, 547, 550

Xiongnu, 16

Xipe Totec, 157

Xuan, Emperor of China,
45

Xuanzong, Emperor of China, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93

Xu Fu, 16–17

Xuihtecuhutli, 158

Yagoda, Genrikh, 386

Yahi Indians, 189

Yahya Khan, Agha Mohammad, 481, 482, 483, 538

Yalta Conference (1945), 421

Yalu River, 442, 443, 444