by Conrad Black
Gerry, Elbridge
gerrymandering
G.I. Bill of Rights
Gibbon, Edward
Giddings, Joshua
Giraud, Henri
Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry
Giuliani, Rudolph
Gladstone, William Ewart
Glaspie, April
Godkin, Edwin L.
Goering, Hermann
Goethals, George Washington
Goldman, Emma
Gold Rush: Alaska; California
gold standard; Hoover on; repeal of
Gold Standard Act (1900)
Goldwater, Barry M.
Gomulka, Wladyslaw
Gone with the Wind (film)
Gorbachev, Mikhail; and arms reduction; and Bush; coup against; and Cuba; and German reunification; on “human face” of communism; on satellite states; and Soviet disintegration
Gore, Al
Goulburn, Henry
Gould, Jay
Gousev, Feodor
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of
Graham, William
Grand Army of the Republic
Grant, Ulysses S.; in Civil War; and Lee surrender; as president; and Sherman
Granville, John Carteret, Lord
Grasse, François Joseph Paul, Count de
Graves, Sir Thomas
Great Britain; and Alaska border; appeasement by; Bank of England; and Bering Strait; and Canada; capitalism in; and Central America canal; Chatham colonial bill; Chesapeake attack; on Civil War; Communist spies in; and D-Day; and debt; debt claims by; on European integration; and Falklands; Franklin in; and French rivalry; Glorious Revolution; and Guatemala; and Hanover ; and Indian tribes; individual rights in; “Intolerable Acts,” and Iraq War; and Japan alliance; and Korean War; and Latin America; maritime impressments by; and Mossadegh; and Pacific Northwest; and Pax Britannica ; political dissent in; Quebec Act; representation in; and Samoa; Settlement Act; and slavery; social reform in; and Soviet defectors; Stamp Act; and Suez crisis; taxing power; terrorism in; Townshend taxes; and War of 1812; and Webster policy; and West Indies; see also American Revolution; Seven Years’ War; World War I; World War II
Great Depression
Great White Fleet
Greece: and Britain; Cold War missiles in; Mussolini in; in NATO; and Truman Doctrine
Greeley, Horace
Greenback Labor Party
Greene, Nathanael
Grenada
Grenville, George
Grenville, Thomas
Gresham, Walter Q.
Grew, Joseph
Grey, Sir Edward
Gromyko, Andrei ; and arms control; and Cuban missile crisis; and Vietnam
Gruenther, Alfred
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guichen, Luc Urbain du Bouëxic, Count de
Guiteau, Charles J.
Gulf War (1991)
Habsburg Empire: and Bismarck; end of; fragments of; Franz Ferdinand assassination ; see also Austria
Hacha, Emil
Hagerty, James
Hague, Frank
Haig, Alexander M.
Haile Selassie
Haiti
Haldeman, Bob
Halifax, Edward Wood, Lord
Hall, Fawn
Halleck, Henry
Hamas
Hamilton, Alexander; vs. Adams; adultery of; ambitious agenda of; and Constitution; on Bill of Rights; as counselor; on debt; duel death of; on French Revolution; influence of; vs. Jefferson; on meritocracy; monarchism of; as Treasury secretary
Hamilton, Lee
Hamlin, Hannibal
Hammarskjöld, Dag
Hampton, Wade
Hancock, John
Hancock, Winfield Scott
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo
Hanover
Harding, Warren G.; and Hoover; naval disarmament; on world court
Harriman, Averell; and Korean War; and Marshall Plan; in Moscow; as New York governor
Harriman, Job
Harrison, Benjamin
Harrison, William Henry; and Indian wars; at Tippecanoe; in War of 1812
Hart, Gary
Harvey, Robert
Hastings, Warren
HavelVáclav
Hawaii; annexation of; coup in; Pearl Harbor base
Hawke, Sir Edward
Hay, George
Hay, John Milton; and China; and Panama
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Hayes, Rutherford B.
Hay-Herran Convention
Hayne, Robert
Hay-Paunceforte Treaty
Hearst, William Randolph
Heath, Edward
Helms, Richard
Helsinki Accords
Hemings, Sally
Hendricks, Thomas A.
Henry, Patrick; and Constitutional Convention
Herriot, Edouard
Herter, Christian
Hezbollah
Hindenburg, Paul von
Hirohito, Emperor
Hiss, Alger
Hitler, Adolf; anti-Semitism of; Austria annexation; as chancellor; and Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland); FDR’s fear of; France invasion; Greece invasion; and Hearst; and Japan; and Munich Agreement; and North Africa; Norway invasion; Nuremberg rallies; and Poland; Rhineland occupation; Russia invasion; and Stalin; suicide of; and Yugoslavia
Hoare-Laval Pact
Hobart, Garret A.
Ho Chi Minh; as communist believer; and Nixon
Holborne, Francis
Hollande, François
Holy Alliance
Holy Roman Empire
Homestead Act
Homestead Strike
Honduras
Hood, John Bell
Hooker, Joseph
Hoover, Herbert C.; on “American System,” and “Bonus March,” and Commerce Department; on gold standard; on New Deal program; on Prohibition; reelection campaign; on reparations; and stock-market crash
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hopkins, Harry
House, Edward Mandell
Houston, Sam
Howe, Geoffrey
Howe, George Augustus, Viscount
Howe, Julia Ward
Howe, Louis McHenry
Howe, Richard, Lord (Admiral)
Howe, William (General)
Huerta, Victoriano
Hughes, Charles Evans; as chief justice; and naval disarmament
Hull, Cordell; on de Gaulle; on Japanese aggression; on Korean War; Roosevelt on
Hull, William
Hulsemann, Johann Georg
Human Rights Watch
Humphrey, Hubert H.; and McGovern
Hungary; as democratic republic; Soviet power in; uprising; see also Austria-Hungary
Hurley, Patrick
Hussein, King of Jordan; an dNixon; and PLO
Hussein, Saddam: and Gulf War; and Iraq War (2003)
Hutchinson, Thomas
Ickes, Harold
immigration; curtailment of; free vs. slave states; illegal; and Know-Nothings; open; suspicion of; “Yellow Peril,”
impeachment
income tax; in McGovern platform; Reagan cuts
Independent Treasury Act
India: British Empire in; and Bush agreement; and East Pakistan; independence movement; in Seven Years’ War
Indiana Territory
Indians (Native Americans): Black Hawk War; as British allies; demonization of; Fort Mims massacre; in French & Indian Wars; and Gallatin; and Jackson; and Jumonville massacre; at Little Big Horn; and Office of Indian Affairs; at Tippecanoe; Treaty of Greenville ; in War of 1812
Indochina; see also Vietnam
Indonesia; as communist domino ; see also Dutch East Indies
industry; and GNP growth; and monopolies; and tariffs; trade embargoes
Influence of Sea Power on History The (Mahan)
Ingersoll, Jared
Inonu, Ismet
International
Atomic Energy Agency
International Bureau of American Republics
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
Interstate Commerce Commission
Iran: Khomeini & hostage crisis; Mossadegh regime; and Reagan; Shah of
Iraq: coup in; Gulf War (1991)
Iraq War; and democracy aim
Ireland; immigrants from; and Northern Ireland
Ishii, Kikujito
Israel; and Camp David Accords; creation of; and Egypt; and Gaza; and Gulf War; and Lebanon; and Oslo Accords; Six-Day War (1967); Yom Kippur War
Italy: Communist Party in; and Mafia trial; Popular Front in; provisional government; unification of; and World War II
Jackson, Andrew: and Bank of the U.S.; Calhoun purge; on Clay; economic policy; Florida invasion; Force Bill; as improbable president; Indian removal; in Indian wars; and nullification; as presidential candidate; on public works; slavery policy; spoils system; and Texas; toughness of; on Union preservation; in War of 1812; Whig opposition; White House parties
Jackson, Henry M.
Jackson, Jesse
Jackson, Rachel
Jackson, Richard
Jackson, Thomas J. (Stonewall)
Japan: battleship building; British alliance; vs. China; economic bubble in; embargo on; in Great Depression; Hiroshima; on Iwo Jima; Lansing-Ishii Agreement; MacArthur reforms in; Meiji Restoration; and Nixon; on Okinawa; Panay attack; Pearl Harbor attack; Perry’s opening; surrender of; Taft-Katsura Agreement; tension with; in World War I; in World War II
Jay, John; and Justice Department; as New York governor; treaty with Britain
Jay’s Treaty
Jefferson, Thomas; vs. Adams; on Alien & Sedition Acts; on Anglo-Saxon Britain; on “apostates,” on Articles of Confederation; and Barbary pirates; on Bill of Rights; and Burr trial; and Canada; and Committee of Correspondence; and Continental Congress; and Declaration of Independence; death of; Embargo Act; and Federalists; in France; on French Revolution; as hypocrite; informal style of; on “Intolerable Acts,” and Lewis & Clark expedition; and Louisiana Purchase; Military Academy founding; political skill of; as polymath; presidency of; as presidential candidate; as propagandist; as romantic revolutionary; rural ideal of; as secretary of state; and slavery; spending cuts; on suffrage; Summary View of the Rights of British America; on trade policy; and University of Virginia; as vice president; Virginia constitution; as Virginia governor
Jews: vs. Arabs; and Hitler; Lieberman; and Palestine Mandate; and Pompidou; as refugees; see also Israel
Joffre, Joseph
John Paul II, Pope
Johnson, Hiram W
Johnson, Andrew; impeachment of; presidency of; as senator
Johnson, Hershel Vespasian
Johnson, Joseph E.
Johnson, Louis A.
Johnson, Lyndon B.; Civil Rights Act; Great Society; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Higher Education Act; and Humphrey; on immigration; on Kennedy staff; and Kosygin; legislative control; on McCarthy; Medicare / Medicaid; reelection of; and southern vote; space program; on Suez crisis; as vice president; and Vietnam; Voting Rights Act; War on Poverty; World War II service
Johnson, Richard M.
Johnson, William Samuel
Johnston, A.S.
Johnston, Joseph E.
Jordan: and Israel; and Lebanon; and Nixon; and Syria
Jordan, Vernon
Juárez, Benito
Judiciary Reorganization Bill
Kalinin, Mikhail
Kaltenborn, H.V
Kames, Henry Home, Lord
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Karzai, Hamid
Kearney, Stephen W
Kefauver, Estes
Kellogg, Frank B.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Kelly, John
Kemp, Jack
Kendall, Amos
Kennan, George F.; containment strategy; “long telegram,” and Marshall Plan
Kennedy, Edward M.
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Kennedy, John F.; assassination of; and Bay of Pigs; “bear any burden” speech; Berlin speech; and civil rights; and Cuban missile crisis; and de Gaulle; election of; glamorous friends of; health issues; and Khrushchev; and Latin America; moon program; New Frontier; nuclear test ban; Peace Corps; on taxes; and Vietnam
Kennedy, Joseph P.; as ambassador; FDR endorsement; on Securities & Exchange Commission
Kennedy, Robert F.; assassination of; from hawk to dove; and Nixon; presidential campaign
Kenya
Kerensky, Alexander
Kern, John F.
Kerry, John
Key, Francis Scott
Key, Joseph
Keynes, John Maynard, Lord
Khomeini, Ruhollah, Ayatollah
Khrushchev, Nikita; on Bay of Pigs; on Berlin; and Cuban missile crisis; sacking of; triumphalism of; U.S. visit; and U-2 fiasco
Kim II Sung
Kim Jong Il
Kimmel, Husband E.
King, Ernest J.
King, Martin Luther
King, Rufus
King, WL. Mackenzie
King, William R.
Kissinger, Henry A.; in China; in Moscow; Nixon eulogy; Paris talks; public career end; and Sinai agreement; Vietnam hopes; on Watergate; and Yom Kippur War
Kleindienst, Richard
Knowland, William; on China; Eisenhower’s disdain for; on German sovereignty
Know-Nothings
Knox, Frank
Knox, Henry
Knox, Philander C.
Kohl, Helmut; and German reunification
Korea; division of; see also North Korea; South Korea
Korean War; and atom-bomb question; casualties of ; and China; end of; Inchon landing; public support for; and Russia
Kosciusko, Tadeusz
Kosovo
Kossuth, Louis
Kosygin, Alexei
Kristallnacht
Ku Klux Klan
Kuwait
labor unions; strikes by; and Taft-Hartley
Lafayette, Marquis de
La Follette, Robert M.; isolationism of; as presidential candidate
La Guardia, Fiorello H.
Laird, Melvin R.
Lamar, Mirabeau
Landon, Alfred M.
Lane, Joseph
Laniel, Joseph
Lansdale, Edward
Lansing, Robert; firing of; on German naval attacks; on Japan in China; nephew of
Laos
Latin America; British in; Jewish refugees in; mediation in; Monroe Doctrine on; Panama Conference; and Pan-American Union; Roosevelt policy on; see also Central America; Cuba; Mexico