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The Untold History of the United States

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by Oliver Stone


  London, 38, 103, 157, 182, 512

  antiwar protests in, 524

  Pinochet arrested in, 500

  Polish government-in-exile in, 115–16, 123

  London Naval Conference, 83

  Long, Huey, “Share the Wealth” program of, 56

  Looking Backward (Bellamy), xxi, xxi, 56

  Los Alamos, 136, 160

  Los Angeles, Calif., 246, 592

  Los Angeles Times, 58, 193–94, 223, 272, 284, 428, 445

  Lott, Trent, 493, 524

  Lovett, Robert, 122, 180, 218, 224, 242

  Lublin, Poland, 111, 115, 123–24

  Luce, Henry, xi, 101, 146, 181

  Lucky Dragon incident, 270–72

  Lugo, Fernando, 603, 604

  Lumumba, Patrice, 279, 348

  Luti, William, 685n

  MacArthur, Douglas (ambassador), 381

  MacArthur, Douglas (General), 55, 64, 67–68, 69, 100, 102, 106, 145, 166, 176, 177, 179, 238–44, 239, 243, 381, 599, 640n

  McCain, John, 492, 551, 560, 567

  McCarthy, Eugene, 357, 365

  McCarthy, Joseph, 231–33, 231, 242, 247, 287–88, 367

  McCarthyism, 233–34

  McChrystal, Stanley, 570–71, 578, 586, 588, 590

  McCloy, John, 102, 122, 147, 152, 161, 163, 323

  McCone, John, 295, 303, 326–27, 329–30, 343–44, 372–73

  McCullough, David, 140

  Macdonald, Dwight, 180, 369

  McFadden, Louis T, 52–53

  McFarlane, Robert “Bud,” 427, 441–42, 456, 458–59

  McGovern, George, 335

  McGrory, Mary, 418

  McHugh, L. C., 300–301

  McKinley, William, xxii–xxiii, xxv, xxvi, xxvii, 43

  assassination of, xxviii

  McNamara, Robert S., 158, 290, 292, 292, 298, 302, 303, 318, 341, 344, 346, 351–52, 360, 375, 383, 475, 540

  Cuban Missile Crisis and, 308, 310, 312–13

  Vietnam and, 305, 315–16, 328, 330, 333, 334–37, 337, 365, 366–67, 384, 387

  McNaughton, John, 334, 384

  McSwain bill, 72

  McSwain War Profits Bill, 72

  madrassas, 415–16, 461, 486

  Mainau Declaration, 281

  Malaya, 100, 138, 238, 266–67

  Malaysia, 328, 606, 607–8

  Malenkov, Georgi, 227, 248–49

  Mali, 536

  Maliki, Nuri Kamal al-, 598

  Manchuria, xxxi, 173, 215, 236, 241, 243

  Japanese seizure of, 45, 87, 90

  Manhattan Institute, 399

  Manhattan Project, 136, 143, 144, 164

  manifest destiny, xv, xvii, xxii

  Manila, xxiii, xxv

  Mann, Thomas, 60, 344

  Mann Doctrine, 343

  Mansfield, Mike, 269, 315, 316

  Mao Zedong, 32, 222–23, 236, 238, 382

  Marco Polo Bridge incident, 85

  Marine Corps War College, 587

  Marines, U.S., xxxi, 3, 434

  Marne, First Battle of the, 23

  Marshall, George C., 103, 104–5, 113, 119, 122, 138, 145, 207, 209, 213, 215, 218–19, 237, 247

  Marshall Islands, nuclear testing in, 198, 252, 270, 308–9

  Marshall Plan, 209–10, 210, 213

  Marx, Karl, 26

  Marxism, Catholic priests and, 433

  Maryland, bank holiday in, 47

  Masaryk, Jan, 214, 226

  Massoud, Ahmad Zia, 583

  Matlock, Jack, 451, 470

  May-Johnson Bill, 186

  media:

  banned from Grenada invasion, 434

  Iraq war supported by, 521–22

  Medicaid, 438, 559

  Medicare, 558, 559

  Mediterranean, 105, 190, 196, 208, 215

  Soviet access to, 189

  medium range ballistic missiles (MRBMs), 306–7, 307, 311, 517

  Meet the Press, 504, 514

  Mein Kampf (Hitler), 22, 80, 95

  Mejía Victores, Oscar Humberto, 430

  Mencken, H. L., 10, 43

  Merchants of Death (Engelbrecht and Hanighen), 66

  Mercury orbital flights, 304

  Mexican Revolution, 2–3

  Mexico, xxx, xxxii, 6, 41, 43, 188, 207, 521, 555, 603, 604

  revolution in, 2–3

  Mexico City, 356

  Michigan, bank holiday in, 47

  Micronesia, 542

  middle class, 554, 559

  Obama as champion of, 551

  Middle East, 201, 219, 230, 239, 241, 257, 282, 439, 462, 469, 518, 523, 537, 543, 599, 600–603, 604, 605

  oil in, 4, 26, 104–5, 189–90, 194–95, 205, 215–16, 237, 258–60, 392, 414, 491, 497, 515

  reduced U.S. involvement in, 566

  strategic importance of, 215–16, 238, 439

  superpower conflict in, 189–90

  Middle East peace process, 496

  Midway, battle of, 100, 131

  military, FDR’s opposition to, 55

  military bases:

  Al-Qaeda bombing of U.S., 488

  British, 217, 220, 408

  NATO, 537

  Soviet, 466, 470

  U.S., xii, xvii, xxvii, 200, 201, 205, 215–16, 220, 240, 249–50, 255, 274, 278, 286, 296, 302, 306–7, 319, 380–82, 408, 416, 439, 440, 443, 466, 537, 549, 598–99, 604–5, 609, 612

  Military Code of Justice, 361

  military-industrial complex, xi, 215, 439, 446, 448, 548

  Eisenhower on, 288–89

  military spending:

  Indian, 608–9

  Soviet, 274, 426, 446

  U.S., xii, 199–200, 231, 246, 249, 251, 254, 257, 286–87, 298, 403, 417, 436–39, 462, 463, 484, 490–91, 549, 574–75, 606, 611–12, 615

  Miller, Judith, 478, 514, 578

  Mine Safety and Health Administration, 546

  minimum wage, 51, 546

  Minneapolis, Minn., general strike in, 57, 58

  missile defense program, 496, 498, 537, 539, 541, 576

  missile gap, 278–79, 302–3

  Mission to Moscow, 106

  MIT, 22, 364, 365, 445, 562

  Mitchell, George, 600–601

  Mitchell, John, 372, 390

  Mitchell, William “Billy,” 24

  Moley, Raymond, 53, 54, 101

  Molotov, Vyacheslav, 103–4, 121–24, 165, 172, 184, 256, 265

  Molotov Plan, 209

  Mondale, Walter, 403, 462

  Monroe Doctrine, xv, 208, 603

  Moorer, Thomas, 362, 371

  moral reformers, 16–18

  Morgan, J. P., 54, 73–77

  Morgenthau, Hans, 269–70

  Morgenthau, Henry, 82

  Morgenthau Plan, 189

  Morocco, 265, 304

  Morris, Roger, 362–63, 370–71

  Moscow, 97, 104, 107, 126, 157, 172, 208, 248, 282, 298, 379, 463

  Moscow, Battle of, 103

  Moscow Olympics, 415

  Mossadeq, Mohammad, 258–60, 261

  Mozambique, 408

  MQ9 Reaper drones, 577, 579

  Mubarak, Hosni, 507, 522, 601

  mujahideen, 571, 580, 589

  Afghan, 413, 450, 487

  Mule Day Parade, Columbia, Tenn., 505

  Mullen, Mike, 578, 586, 587–88

  multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), 379

  Mumford, Lewis, 198–99, 252

  Munich, 214

  Allied capitulation to Hitler at, 88

  munitions manufacturers, 44

  profiteering by, 65–79, 82–83

  proposed nationalization of, 68–69, 77

  Murrow, Edward R., 178, 181

  Musharraf, Pervez, 535–36, 571

  Muslims, xii, 530

  in Afghanistan, 413–14

  in Indonesia, 347, 350

  in Iran, 408

  resistance against Soviet government by, 29

  U.S. behavior towards, 545

  U.S. detention of, 504
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br />   Mussolini, Benito, 37, 45, 50

  Axis formed by, 87–88, 89

  black shirts of, 53

  Ethiopian invasion of, 83

  Franco supported by, 84

  U.S. supporters of, 50, 52, 101

  mustard gas, 20, 22, 65

  MX missile program, 438

  Myanmar, 533, 607

  NAACP, 59

  Nader, Ralph, 492, 493, 496

  Nagasaki, bombing of, xiv, 44, 172–73, 174, 176–78, 181, 236, 256, 271–72, 415, 524

  Nairobi, embassy bombing in, 490

  Nanjing, 157

  rape of, 85, 88, 150

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 257

  Nation, xxxi, 10, 40–41, 48, 50, 56, 60, 62

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 234

  National Board for Historical Service (NBHS), 8, 10

  National City Bank, xxxii, 48, 73

  National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), 282

  national debt, 462, 545, 547

  National Education Association (NEA), 71

  National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF), 305

  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, 577

  National Guard, 298, 523–24

  class discrimination in, 524

  at Kent State, 370

  National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), 50, 51, 52

  National Intelligence Council, 528

  National Intelligence Estimate:

  on Brazil, 343

  on Indonesia, 352

  on Iran, 457, 535

  on Iraq, 515

  on Soviet arsenal, 278

  on the Soviet Union, 396

  National Interest/Public Interest, 399

  National Liberation Front, Greek, 206

  National Liberation Front (NLF), Vietnamese, 327, 329–30, 332–33, 338–39, 361–62

  National Military Establishment, 212

  National Park Service, 156, 284

  National Recovery Administration (NRA), 50, 52

  National Republican Alliance (ARENA), Salvadoran, 432

  National Security Act, 212

  National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 273, 327

  National Security Agency (NSA), 521, 561, 563

  warrantless wiretaps permitted by, 505

  National Security Council (NSC), 213, 248, 250, 258, 263, 328, 344, 370, 372, 375, 405–6, 420, 421–22, 456, 457, 496–97, 512–13, 516, 566, 586

  Executive Committee (EXCOMM) of, 309–10, 311

  Operations Coordinating Board of, 271–72

  Policy Planning Staff of, 267

  Principals Committee of, 510–11

  National Security Directive, 457

  National Security Planning Group, 425

  National Security Resources Board, 213

  National Security Study Memo, on Chile, 373

  National Steel Corporation, 63

  National Strategic Target List and Single Integrated Operation Plan (SIOP), 287

  Nation’s Report Card, xiii

  Natsios, Andrew, 529, 533

  natural gas:

  Central Asian, 488, 490, 591

  in South China Sea, 606

  Naval War College, 255

  Navy, British, 5–6, 31

  Navy, U.S., xxii, 40, 68, 94, 146, 153, 177, 215, 228, 575, 609–10

  Navy Department, U.S., 199–200, 212

  Nazi party, 44, 45, 80, 124, 156, 192

  Nazis, 121, 208, 214, 215, 216, 258

  NBC, 68, 177–78, 415, 521, 522, 525

  Near East, 230, 237

  Nebraska, University of, at Omaha (UNO), Center for Afghanistan Studies at, 486–87, 489, 489

  Nehru, Jawaharlal, 257, 271, 282

  neoconservatives, xi, 434, 472, 489, 549, 567

  in G. W. Bush administration, xi, 494–96

  inadvertent benefits to Al Qaeda from, 528–29

  on Iran, 534

  Iraq targeted by, 501, 503, 513, 529–31

  and Israel, 518–19

  military spending pushed by, 490–91

  9/11 and, 501

  targets of, 522–23, 526

  on U.S. imperialism, xiv–xv, 490–91

  Netanyahu, Bibi, 601–2

  Netherlands, 89, 99–100, 250, 402, 485, 547

  Indonesia colonized by, 347, 349

  Neutrality Pact of 1941, 148

  Nevada, 47, 77

  Nevins, Allan, 149

  New Deal, 49–58, 61–63, 90–92, 93, 101, 193, 354, 400–401

  accused of fascism, 50–52

  as anti-fascist, 53

  New Hampshire, University of, 507

  New Left, xiv, 340

  New Republic, 56, 66, 220, 561

  Newsweek, 150, 164, 341, 464, 474, 517, 522

  New York, N.Y., 108, 109, 242

  antiwar protests in, 338, 524

  as center of world finance, 38

  Christian Mobilizers in, 53

  9/11 attacks in, 500

  New Yorker, 200

  New York Evening Post, 9–10, 64

  New York Federal Reserve Bank, 48, 552

  New York Herald Tribune, 104

  New York State Legislature, 16

  New York Sun, 518

  New York Times, xiii, xv, 9–10, 11, 14–15, 19–20, 21, 24, 46, 47, 48, 55, 56–57, 67, 71, 73, 76, 77, 97, 106, 125–26, 138, 177, 182, 185, 191, 202, 208, 222, 224, 236, 241, 244, 249, 253, 254, 256–57, 261–62, 264–65, 272, 282, 283, 284, 285, 289, 293, 294, 301–2, 332, 338, 348, 350, 352–53, 362, 382, 392, 409, 412, 414, 424, 429, 432–33, 444, 445, 463, 464, 474, 478, 483, 500, 506, 513, 514, 520, 521, 522, 532–33, 538, 545, 547, 552, 553, 557, 561, 563, 564, 570, 577, 578, 580, 585, 589, 605, 608, 612

  Pentagon Papers in, 384–85

  New York World, xxiii–xxiv

  New York World’s Fair, 92

  Next War, The (Irwin), 24

  Nicaragua, xxx–xxxi, xxxii, 40, 116, 262, 265, 412, 427, 428, 434, 463, 472, 603

  contras in, 430–31, 433, 455–58, 455, 471

  Iran-Contra scandal and, 431, 455–59

  Sandinistas in, xxxi, 412, 430, 455–56, 567

  Nicaraguan National Guard, xxxi

  Nigeria, 536

  Nightline, 529

  Nimitz, Chester, 100, 177

  9/11, xvi, 99, 472, 498, 500, 502, 508, 510, 512, 535, 544, 547, 549, 564–65, 571, 574, 586–87, 590, 597–98, 608

  and attempts to warn G. W. Bush about terrorism, 497–98, 500–501

  climate of fear and uncertainty after, 504, 518, 528–29

  as G. W. Bush and PNAC opportunity, 501–4, 514, 550

  Iranian response to, 534

  Putin’s response to, 537

  nitrogen bomb, 272

  Nitze, Paul, 122, 230–31, 308, 383, 396–99, 451–52

  Nixon, Richard, 231, 247, 265, 266, 287, 323, 351, 356, 356, 399, 400, 417, 424, 461

  Cambodia bombed by, 360–61, 363, 370, 371

  “Checkers speech” of, 247

  and Chile, 372–79

  China relations of, 379, 381–82, 388–89

  dishonesty of, 361

  flexible sense of legality of, 372

  foreign policy and, 360

  J. F. Kennedy’s defeat of, 288

  Kissinger’s dislike of, 355, 359–60

  “madman theory” of, 250–51, 360

  in 1968 election, 356–60, 359, 365

  on nuclear warfare, 250–51, 255, 269, 282, 360–61

  progressive domestic programs of, 360, 383, 401

  resignation of, 386, 390, 392, 396

  “silent majority” support for, 358–59

  Soviet Union and, 379–80

  Vietnam and, 358, 360–66, 368, 370, 379, 382, 384–89, 394, 404

  Watergate scandal and, 387, 389–90

  White House Special Investigations Unit approved by, 386

  Nobel Peace Prize:

  of Carter, 391

  of Kissinger, 356, 390

  Non-Agg
ression Pact of 1939, Soviet-German, 60

  nonaligned movement, 348

  NORAD, 286

  Noriega, Manuel, 455–56, 471–73, 476

  Normandy, Allied landing at, 111, 138

  Norris, George, 7, 16, 35–36, 61, 65

  North, Oliver, 431, 455, 456, 458, 465

  North Africa, 104–5, 108

  North America, 439

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 220, 222, 239, 246, 253, 269, 282, 286, 295, 310, 313, 319, 414, 459, 569

  in Afghanistan, 571, 577, 581–82, 584–85, 587, 588, 591–94

  post–Cold War expansion of, 469–70, 486, 537–38

  Northern Alliance, 489

  North Korea, 235–36, 238–42, 244–46, 245, 248, 250–51, 482, 496, 522, 609

  nuclear weapons in, 391, 526, 536

  Norway, 89, 486, 547

  NSAM 263, 315

  NSC 68, 230–31, 246

  nuclear arms race, 204, 222, 248, 256–57, 272, 282, 445

  nuclear deterrents, 443, 444

  nuclear energy:

  Chernobyl accident with, 450

  Fukushima disaster and, 613

  for Iran, 408–9, 410, 602

  peacetime, 186, 256, 271–72, 282–83

  peacetime in Japan, 382

  nuclear freeze movement, 441

  Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 382, 539, 608

 

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