George F. Kennan : an American life

by John Lewis Gaddis

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  INDEX

  Abakumov, Viktor Semyonovich

  Acheson, Dean

  and atomic weapons

  and Berlin

  and China

  and defense spending

  and European unity

  and Germany

  and Kennan’s career

  and Kennan’s lectures

  and Kennan’s views on foreign affairs

  and Kennan’s writings

  and Korea

  lectures by

  and Marshall Plan

  and Policy Planning Staff

  Present at the Creation

  as secretary of state

  and Titoism

  and Truman Doctrine

  working style of

  Adams, Brooks

  Adams, Henry

  Adams, John

  Adams, John Quincy

  Adams, Sherman

  Adams, Ware

  Adenauer, Konrad

  Afghanistan, Soviet invasion of

  Africa:

  apartheid in

  decolonization in

  Kennans’ visit to

  Air War College

  Alaska

  Albania

  Albert Einstein Peace Prize

  Alexander I, Tsar

  Alliluyeva, Svetlana Iosifovna

  Allison, John

  Alsop, Joseph

  Alsop, Stewart

  American Academy of Arts and Letters

  American Council on Germany

  Andropov, Yuri

  Anglo-Portuguese treaty (1373)

  Arab-Israeli war (1967)

  Arbatov, Georgi

  Armacost, Michael

  Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

  Armstrong, Hamilton Fish

  Aron, Raymond

  Atlantic, The

  Atlantic Charter

  Atomic Energy Commission

  Attlee, Clement

  Augustine, Saint, Confessions

  Austin, Warren

  Austria:

  German annexation of

  postwar occupation of

  social systems in

  Austro-Hung
arian Empire

  Azores

  Bad Nauheim:

  Kennan’s Russian history course in

  U.S. embassy personnel interned in

  Bakhmeteff, Boris

  Balfour, Sir John “Jock,”

  Ball, George

  Ball, Lucille

  Barghoorn, Frederick C.

  Barnes, Joseph

  Barrett, Betsy

  Baruch Plan

  Beard, Charles, The Open Door at Home

  Belgium, German invasion of

  Belisarius

  Bellah, Robert

  Bemis, Samuel Flagg

  Beneš, Eduard

  Benton, William

  Berlin:

  allied airlift of

  Bristol Hotel in

  Cold War tensions over

  Kennan’s diary description of

  Kennan’s language studies in

  Kennan’s reports from

  Kennan’s temporary posting (1931) to

  Kennan’s transfer (1939) to

  postwar occupation of

  Soviet blockade of

  in wartime

  Berlin, Isaiah

  Berlin Olympics (1936)

  Berlin Wall

  Bevin, Ernest

  Bidault, Georges

  Billington, James

  Billington, Ray

  Bismarck, Gottfried von

  Bismarck, Otto von

  Black, Cyril

  Blok, Aleksandr

  Bohlen, Avis

  Bohlen, Charles E. “Chip,”

  as ambassador to Soviet Union

  and Cold War

  death of

  and espionage

  and Kennan’s expulsion

  and Kennan’s long telegram

  Kennan’s reports to

  and Marshall Plan

  memoirs of

  in Moscow

  and national security

  nomination fight of

  and postwar Europe

  and State Department

  in Washington

  Bohlen-Robinson report

  Böhm, Charlotte

  Bonesteel, Charles “Tick” III

  Borah, William

  Bowie, Robert R.

  Bowles, Chester

  Braden, Spruille

  Brassard, Father Louis Robert

  Bretton Woods conference

  Brezhnev, Leonid

  British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)