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A Patriot's History of the Modern World

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by Larry Schweikart


  at Casablanca Conference, 401–2

  and fall of France, 323–26

  and Holocaust, 390

  and Middle East, 199

  military adventures of, 1–2, 328

  on obsolescence of war, 70, 75

  opposition to Hitler, 199, 291, 293, 329–30

  oratory of, 325–26, 330

  political career of, 328, 329, 330

  as prime minister, 330

  and rearmament, 277, 329

  and Stalin, 403, 410–11

  at Tehran Conference, 402

  wartime leadership of, 334, 358, 374, 376, 393–94

  in World War I, 328

  writings of, 330

  Ciano, Galeazzo, 275

  Citizenship, in U.S., 37

  Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 252

  Civil War (U.S.)

  casualties, 91–92

  guerrilla warfare in, 89

  Hitler’s view of, 316

  regiment recruitment in, 134–35

  weapons and supplies, 119–20

  Clark, Mark, 396

  Clausewitz, 419

  Clayton Act, 240

  Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850, 53

  Clemenceau, Georges

  as antitraditionalist, 160–61

  on French prewar malaise, 77

  at Versailles Conference, 155, 156, 158, 159, 160

  Cliveden set, 291

  Cobb, Humphrey, 139

  Coca-Cola, 227

  Colindres, Vicente Mejía, 226

  Colombia, 53

  Colonies

  and decolonization policy, 201–6, 213

  dependency theory of, 225

  economic costs of, 204–5

  economic growth in, 205–6

  European ruling class in, 196–97

  and land ownership, 210–11

  native administration in, 212

  security requirements of, 213–14

  trade with, 311

  and Versailles Conference, 162, 198, 199

  in World War I, 100–101, 102, 104, 196

  See also British Empire

  Colt, Samuel, 120

  Common-law heritage, and American exceptionalism, 4–5

  Commons, John R., 181

  Communications technology, in World War I, 91

  Communist International (Comintern), 296

  Communist Party, Spanish, 280, 281

  Comstock Law, 185

  Condor Legion, 285

  Conquest, Robert, 150, 244

  Constitutionalists vs Progressives, 3–4, 11

  Consumerism, American, 228–30

  Cook, Frederick A., 61

  Coolidge, Calvin, 4, 11, 308

  agriculture policy of, 236–37, 245

  and Hoover, 241

  isolationism of, 224

  Lindbergh honored by, 175

  and Mitchell court-martial, 176

  tax cuts of, 215, 236

  Cortés, 38

  Cox, James M., 119, 235

  Creel, George, 124

  Cremation, Nazi, 386, 387–88

  Crete, in World War II, 335–36, 374

  Creveld, Martin van, 379

  Croly, Herbert, 180

  Cromwell, William Nelson, 52–53

  Crzellitzer, Arthur, 188

  Cuba

  in Spanish-American War, 25–38

  U.S. bases in, 30

  U.S. interventions in, 33

  U.S. reform policies in, 28–30

  Culin, Curtis, 381

  Curtis, Lionel, 197

  Curzon, George, 168

  Czech Legion, 146

  Czechoslovakia, 164, 219, 271, 402, 414

  and appeasement of Hitler, 288–89

  ethnic minorities in, 286

  military defenses of, 286, 288

  Munich agreement, 289, 330

  Nazi occupation of, 291, 294, 295

  Daladier, Édouard, 255, 289, 293–94, 324

  Dales, Francis, 378

  Dan, Fyodor, 143–44

  Daniels, Josephus, 174

  Darlan, Jean François, 325, 326, 377

  Darrow, Clarence, 124

  Davenport, Charles B., 179, 183, 187

  David, Eduard, 188

  Davies, James, 37

  Dawes, Charles G., 216

  Dawes Plan, 216, 217

  Dawn Patrol, The, 137, 139

  D-Day invasion, 409–10

  Dearborn Independent, 187

  Debs, Eugene V., 235

  DeCanio, Stephen, 253

  Decolonization, 201–6, 213

  De Gaulle, Charles, 376, 377

  De Lesseps, Ferdinand, 50–51

  Democratic Party

  and income tax, 48–49

  and New Deal, 254

  presidential election of 1896, 43, 44

  southern solidarity with, 44–45

  Denmark, 319

  Dependency theory of undeveloped nations, 224–25

  Dernburg, Bernhard, 114

  Dervishes, 1–2

  Dewey, George

  in Caribbean, 33

  naval commands of, 15–16

  in Spanish-American War, 16, 17–18, 20, 25, 26, 30

  Dewey, John, 117–18, 157

  Digna, Osman, 39

  Disney, Walt, 7, 234

  Dodd, George, 107

  Dodd, William, 292

  Dollfus, Engelbert, 265, 271

  Dominican Republic, U.S. intervention in, 33–34

  Doolittle, Jimmy, 175, 366–67, 378, 391

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 73

  Douhet, Giulio, 174, 357–58

  Driu La Rochelle, Pierre, 78

  Dulles, John Foster, 161

  Dupuy, Roger-Louis, 231

  Duranty, Walter, 149, 243

  Eaker, Ira, 358, 381

  Easter Rising, 42

  Eastman, Max, 124

  Eastman, “Monk,” 125

  Ebert, Friedrich, 160

  Economic stabilization model, 249

  Eden, Anthony, 275, 277, 410

  Edison, Thomas, 112, 113

  Edwards, Daniel Richmond, 133–34

  Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor), 291–92, 293

  Egypt, in World War II, 373–74

  Eichmann, Adolf, 388, 389

  Eiffel, Gustave, 50

  Einstein, Albert, 7

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 137, 355–56, 396

  and Brooke, 378, 406, 407–8

  invasion plan of, 376, 406

  and MacArthur, 404, 406

  military career of, 395, 404–5

  on Philippines campaign, 405–6

  as Supreme Commander, 377, 378, 402, 406–10, 412–13

  El Alamein, 375

  Ely, Richard, 117, 118

  Employment. See Labor market

  England. See Britain

  Enigma machine, 327

  Espionage, in World War II, 327, 331–32, 397

  Espionage Act of 1917, 124

  Ethiopian (Abyssinian) conflict, 168, 273–75

  Eugenics movement

  and anti-Semitism, 187, 188, 189

  in Britain, 179, 188, 193

  and European birth rate decline, 190–92

  in European countries, 192

  in Germany, 182–83, 192–96

  Jews in, 188

  and sterilization programs, 181–82, 183, 192–93, 195

  in United States, 179–82, 183–87

  Europe

  aftermath of World War I, 138–39

  aftermath of World War II, 310–11

  American cultural influence in, 176–77, 228–30, 231–34

  anti-Semitism in, 188–90

  birth rate decline in, 190–92

  eugenics movement in, 193–96

  misunderstanding of American exceptionalism, 5–6

  national boundaries redrawn by Versailles Treaty, 154, 155, 163–65, 218–19

  nonaggression pacts, 173

  nonnative minorities in, 219–22

  political system in, 166–67, 201–2, 20
6

  and Spanish-American War, 21–25

  totalitarian movement in, 293–94

  See also Colonies; Versailles Conference; World War I; World War II; specific countries

  Euthanasia, 193

  Exceptionalism, American. See American exceptionalism

  Fabian Society, 243

  Faisal bin Hussein, 162, 198

  Faisal, Emir, 198, 199, 200

  Falange party, 280

  Falkenhayn, Erich von, 98, 104–5

  Falkenhorst, Nikolaus, 317–18

  Fallingwater, 65, 66

  Famine, in Soviet Union, 149, 150, 242, 243, 244

  Fanjul, Joaquín, 283

  Farben (I.G.), 256, 385

  Fascism

  defined, 178–79

  of Franco, 278

  of Hitler, 262

  of Mussolini, 178, 254–55

  Federal Reserve System, 8, 118, 123, 241, 247

  Ferguson, Niall, 10, 114, 189, 256

  Fermi, Enrico, 7

  Fernández Burríel, Alvaro, 283

  Fertig, Wendell W., 411–12

  Film. See Movies

  Finland, 317, 341

  Finlay, Carlos, 54

  Firebird, The, 68

  Fischer, Eugen, 194

  Fisher, Irving, 183

  Fisher, John, 60–61

  Fitzmaurice, Edmond, 36

  Fletcher, Frank Jack, 121, 367–68, 397

  Flex, Walter, 78

  Foch, Ferdinand, 104, 131, 136

  Folsom, Burton, 252, 254

  Ford, Henry, 7, 112–13, 187, 228

  Ford Motor Company, 269, 353

  Fourteen Points, 153–56, 159, 161

  France

  and Abyssinian (Ethiopian) conflict, 274

  appeasement of Hitler, 289

  –British relations, 168–69

  colonies of, 196, 202, 203–4, 213, 311

  D-Day invasion, 409–10

  declaration of war against Hitler, 298

  diplomatic response to Hitler, 271–72, 276–77

  Free French forces, 336

  labor problems in, 255

  nationalism in, 165–66

  navy of, 377

  nonnative minorities in, 219, 222

  at outbreak of World War I, 76–77

  political instability in, 202

  Ruhr occupation by, 169, 215, 265

  and Spanish-American War, 21

  Stavisky Crisis, 294–95

  at Versailles Conference, 155, 159–61, 164, 199

  Vichy, 326, 336, 348, 377

  World War I aftermath, 138

  in World War I combat, 81, 83–84, 90, 92–99, 104, 105, 126, 132

  in World War II combat, 313, 317, 319–26

  Franchet d’Espèry, Louis, 97

  Franco, Francisco, 165

  in Civil War, 278, 281–82, 284, 285

  and fascism, 278

  and Hitler, 284, 285

  military career of, 281

  Franco-Prussian War, 88, 161

  Frank, Richard, 417

  Franz Ferdinand, assassination of, 81, 82

  Franz Josef, Emperor, 21

  Fraser, Bruce, 357

  Fredendall, Lloyd R., 377, 378

  French, John, 94, 95, 96, 97

  Freud, Sigmund, 62–63, 69

  Friedman, Milton, 248

  Full employment, 236, 239–40, 266

  Funston, Frederick, 32

  Gagnon, Rene, 415

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, 234

  Gallieni, Joseph-Simon, 96

  Gallipoli, Battle of, 104

  Gamble, Clarence, 185

  Gamelin, Maurice, 324

  Gandhi, Mahatma, 329

  García de la Herrán, Miguel, 283

  Garner, John Nance, 251

  Gas chambers, 386, 387–88

  Gaudí, Antoni, 65–67, 68

  Gazala, Battle of, 375

  General Motors, 353

  George V, King of England, 193

  George VI, King of England, 328

  Germany

  air power of, 258, 267, 291, 313–14, 327, 383

  birth rate decline in, 191

  Brest-Litovsk Treaty, 127, 154, 173

  economic recovery of, 255–56, 258, 259

  eugenics movement in, 182–83, 193–96

  French occupation of Ruhr, 169, 215, 265

  Hitler’s rise to power, 168, 257–58, 260–62

  hyperinflation in, 215–16

  Jewish assimilation in, 188

  marriage clinics in, 194

  marriage law in, 193–94

  naval power of, 61, 269, 272, 317, 357

  Nazi regime. See Hitler, Adolf; World War II

  in nonaggression pacts, 173

  at outbreak of World War I, 71, 75, 76, 77–78, 79

  pacifism in, 138–39

  rearmament of, 169, 258–59, 266, 267–69

  reparations of, 161, 169, 214–15, 216, 217, 256–57, 264

  and Spanish-American War, 21, 23

  sterilization programs in, 192–93, 195

  in World War I. See Versailles Conference; World War I

  in World War II. See World War II

  Ghana, 205

  Giannini, A.P., 7

  Gibson, Hugh, 88

  Gilbert, Parker, 216

  Giraud, Henri, 376

  Glaser, Ernst, 80

  Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, 253

  Glazebrook, Arthur, 197

  Gleiwitz incident, 312

  Goded, Manuel, 283

  Godet, Jean Pierre, 125-26

  Goebbels, Joseph, 382, 384, 389

  Goedsche, Hermann, 189

  Goethals, George, 56–57

  Goethe, Charles M., 183

  Goldberg, Jonah, 124

  Gold bullion, confiscation of, 253

  Gold standard, 3, 42–44, 247–48

  Gompers, Samuel, 180

  Gordon, Charles “Chinese,” 34–35, 36

  Gorgas, William, 54–55

  Göring, Herman, 261, 267, 275, 289, 313, 314

  Gorky, Maxim, 144

  Gosney, E.S., 182, 183

  Government regulation, of trusts, 46

  Grant, Madison, 179–80, 183

  Grant, Ulysses S., 137

  Grapes of Wrath, 316

  Graves, Robert, 78

  Graziani, Rodolfo, 275, 374

  Grazia, Victoria de, 229

  Great Depression

  and Hoover’s policies, 241, 249–50

  and New Deal policies, 251–54, 266

  onset of, 217–18, 223

  stock speculation theory of, 234–35

  unemployment during, 242, 250, 253, 254

  Greece, 165, 220, 334, 335, 374, 411, 414

  Grew, Joseph, 349

  Grey, Albert, 197

  Grey, Edward, 84

  Griffith, D.W., 109

  Gropius, Walter, 67, 68, 69

  Grossman, Vasily, 242–43

  Guadalcanal, Battle of, 368–69, 392–93

  Guam, 362

  Guatemala, 227

  Guderian, Heinz, 321, 323, 344, 346

  Güell, Eusebi, 67

  Guggenheim (Solomon) Museum, New York City, 65

  Gurney, Ivor, 138

  Haakon VII, King of Norway, 319

  Haber, Fritz, 101

  Hague Convention of 1907, 101

  Hague Conventions of 1899, 89

  Hague Declaration of 1899, 101

  Hahn, Martin, 188

  Haig, Douglas, 84, 94, 100, 104,105, 136

  Haile Selassie, 293

  Haines, Thomas, 182

  Haiti, U.S. intervention in, 34, 223

  Halder, Franz, 270, 323, 344, 345, 372, 373

  Hale, Edward, 291

  Halifax, Lord, 270, 290, 291, 330

  Halsey, William “Bull,” 367, 397

  Hamaguchi, Osachi, 300, 301

  Hammerstein-Equord, Kurt von, 258

  Hanna, Mark, 52

  Hanneken, Herman, 34

  Hansen, Han
k, 415

  Hanson, Victor Davis, 10, 92, 417

  Harding, Warren, 11

  cabinet of, 235, 241

  and Haitian intervention, 223

  and naval arms limitation, 170

  tax cuts of, 215, 236

  Harriman, Averell, 342

  Harriman, Edward H., 52

  Harriman, Mary, 187

  Harris, Arthur “Bomber,” 358

  Harrison, Benjamin, 17

  Harrison, William Henry, 137

  Hart, B. H. Liddell, 290

  Hashimoto, Kingoro, 299

  Hata, Shinki, 305

  Hatch, F.W., 181–82

  Hausen, Max von, 88

  Hay, John, 210

  Hayek, Friedrich, 360

  Hayes, Ira, 137, 415

  Hayford, J. E. Casely, 37

  Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901, 53

  Hearst, William Randolph, 251

  Heisenberg, Werner, 319

  Hell’s Angels, 137

  Henderson, Arthur, 168

  Henderson, Neville, 267, 272, 290

  Henson, Mattthew, 61, 62

  Hentsch, Richard, 98

  Herzl, Theodore, 200

  Hess, Rudolf, 261, 388

  Hesse, Hermann, 80

  Heydrich, Reinhard, 388

  Heye, Wilhelm, 258

  Hicks, William, 36

  Higgins, Andrew Jackson, 354, 355–56

  Hill, Alexander, 341

  Hill, George Washington, 230–31

  Hill, James J., 54

  Himmler, Heinrich, 275, 384, 387, 388, 389

  Hindenburg, Paul von, 257, 258

  Hipper, Franz, 110

  Hirohito, Emperor, 302, 349, 421

  Hiroshima, bombing of, 417–18

  Hirsch, Max, 188

  Hitler, Adolf

  agricultural policy of, 266

  anti-Semitism of, 260, 262–64

  appeasement of, 272, 286, 288–91

  arms program of. See Military production, Nazi Germany

  Austrian Anschluss, 286

  background and early influences, 259–60

  “Beer Hall” Putsch, 261, 265

  Christian churches suppressed by, 264

  Czechoslovakian occupation, 291, 294, 295

  death of, 413–14

  diplomatic response to, 271–72, 276–78

  economic policy of, 255, 256, 258, 266, 269

  Edward VIII’s links to, 291–92

  eugenics language of, 192

  foreign policy of, 261–62, 266

  and Franco, 284, 285

  German opponents of, 270–71

  and Jewish extermination, 329, 360, 383, 384, 387–90

  and Jewish persecution, 269–70

  Marxist language of, 262

  -Mussolini pact, 273, 275, 276, 295

  nuclear energy program of, 319

  plots against, 288, 361, 375, 413

  Polish invasion, 294–95, 312–13

  popular support for, 264–66

  purge of leadership, 265

  race policy of, 194, 195, 298

  racial cleansing concept of, 186–87

  and raw materials shortages, 268, 290, 311–12, 314, 372

  Rhineland invasion, 276, 313–14

  rise to power, 167, 257–58, 260–62

  in Spanish Civil War, 278, 284, 285

  “stab-in-the-back” theory of, 136, 260

  –Stalin nonaggression pact, 295–97, 337

 

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