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The Untold History of the United States

Page 103

by Oliver Stone


  sexual attitudes in, 17–18

  Vichy, 82, 104

  war against Russia by, 28–29

  in World War I, 4, 7, 18–19, 21–23, 31, 141

  in World War II, 94, 102, 138

  Franck, James, 20, 160

  Franco, Francisco, 84, 85, 88, 95, 180

  Franco-Prussian War, 31

  Frank, Barney, 611

  Franklin, Benjamin, 615

  Franks, Tommy, 514

  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, 3

  Fraser, Sir William, 259

  “Freedom Fighter’s Manual,” 456

  Freedom House, 399

  Freedom of Information Act, 562

  G. W. Bush administration violations of, 512

  Freeh, Louis, 488

  Freeman, Charles, 461, 474, 523

  free trade, 27, 610

  French Revolution, 2, 26, 101

  Frente Faribundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), 412, 432

  Freud, Sigmund, 42, 262

  Freund, Charles Paul, 476

  Friedman, Thomas, 521, 588–89

  Froman, Michael, 552, 566

  Frost, Robert, 290

  Fukuyama, Francis, 469, 490

  Fulbright, J. William, 291

  Fussell, Paul, 131, 178

  Gaddafi, Muammar, 476, 568, 600

  Gaidar, Yegor, 484, 539–40

  Galapagos, 205

  Galbraith, James, 553

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, 290–91, 314–15, 334

  Galbraith, Peter, 585

  Gallagher, Katherine, 499–500

  Gallup, George, 77, 142

  Gallup Polls, 76–77, 94, 97, 108, 126, 139, 142, 188, 221, 241, 284, 458, 547

  Gambia, 112

  game theory, 383

  Gates, Bill, 546, 547

  Gates, Robert, 417, 420, 426–27, 458–59, 461, 466, 543, 567–68, 569, 570, 578, 586, 588, 599, 610

  Geithner, Timothy, 552–54, 557, 605

  gender apartheid, 489

  General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, 577

  General Electric, 421, 448, 521, 551, 560

  General Motors (GM), 63, 78–79, 82, 84, 122

  Geneva Accords, 460

  Geneva Conference, 271

  Geneva Constitution, 498

  Geneva Convention, 507

  Geneva Conventions on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 507

  George, Walter, 65, 75, 77

  Georgetown University, 424, 429

  Georgia, 537–38

  Germany, xi, xvi, 5, 29, 54, 85, 196, 215, 217, 224, 281, 439, 506, 520, 521, 544, 587, 589

  air warfare by, 23, 25, 89, 157

  casualties of, 18, 87, 111

  economic and military revitalization of, 77–78

  Hitler’s rise to power in, 45

  imperialism of, xvii, 4, 31–32, 101

  industrial production in, 4

  Nazi, see Germany, Nazi

  nuclear weapons and, 133–34, 143

  oil supplies of, 38

  partitioning of, 189, 205

  postwar division of, 116

  postwar economy of, 77–78

  propaganda on, 9–10, 15

  remilitarization of, 238–39, 247, 295–97, 319

  reunification of, 469–70

  scientists from, 215

  sinking of Lusitania by, 6

  Soviet concerns about rebuilding by, 188, 189, 209, 219

  U-boats of, 5–6, 68

  U.S. investments in, 77–80

  “war guilt clause” and, 32, 36–37, 87

  in World War I, 4–5, 11–12, 15, 18–20, 21–23, 25, 28, 73, 87, 107

  in World War I peace process, 30–31

  in World War II, 44, 90, 94, 98–106, 108–9, 109, 111, 114–16, 123, 126–28, 131, 138, 139, 146, 248

  World War II surrender of, 144, 146, 172, 189

  Germany, East, 212, 295–97, 298–99, 313, 463, 469, 470

  Germany, Nazi, 78–81, 82, 87–88, 101, 103–4, 108, 114, 132, 227, 250, 254

  Rhineland invasion of, 83–84

  Soviet nonaggression pact with, 60, 88, 102, 105

  Soviet Union invaded by, 88, 94–96, 97

  Germany, West, 219–20, 295–97, 299, 313, 319, 409, 413, 440, 444–45, 470

  Gilpatric, Roswell, 298, 302–3

  Gingrich, Newt, 524, 563

  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 494

  Giraldi, Philip, 534–35

  Glaspie, April, 474

  Glass-Steagall Banking Act, 50, 552

  Glen, Tom, 368–69

  Glenn, John, 304, 320

  global corruption index, 507, 533, 583

  gold, 112, 182, 590

  Goldman Sachs, 254, 551, 552, 610

  gold standard, 52–53, 54, 383, 401

  Goldstein, Gordon, 577–78

  Goldwater, Barry, 328, 456

  Gómez, Juan Vicente, 38–39, 40

  Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 353, 567

  Goodwin, Richard, 291

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 484, 486

  arms negotiations by, 446–55, 449, 453, 459, 462, 482, 483, 537

  and Berlin Wall, 421

  Cold War ended by, 463–64, 465, 542

  fall from power of, 481–82

  perestroika and, 468

  and Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, 459–61

  on U.S. policy, 613

  Gore, Al, 492–94, 574

  Goss, Porter, 542–43

  Goulart, João, 343–45, 345

  Gould, Jay, xix–xx, xix

  Government Accountability Office (GAO), 545

  Grace, Eugene, 70–71

  Graham, Phil, Vietnam service avoided by, 514

  Grant, Ulysses S., 19

  Great Artiste, 167, 171, 173

  Great Britain, 83, 84, 88, 95, 196, 202, 209, 230, 238, 239, 244, 254, 255, 268, 282, 296, 318, 340, 350, 408, 434, 491, 516, 521, 544, 546, 613

  aerial warfare by, 23, 25, 157

  arms manufacturers in, 439, 459

  casualties of, 18, 20, 31, 87, 106, 114

  Cold War and, 180

  colonialism of, xii, xvi, xvii, xxx, 3, 23, 26, 31–32, 98, 99, 100–101, 104–5, 112–14, 124, 138, 182, 185, 188, 190, 192, 194, 238, 257–59, 265

  decline of, 189, 206

  FDR and, 182–84

  G. W. Bush and antiwar protests in, 512

  imperialism of, 32, 201, 202

  income levels in, 554

  and Iraq War, 516, 517

  lend-lease aid to, 89–90, 93–94, 95, 97–98, 182

  MAUD report of, 134

  military intervention in Russia by, 28–29

  naval power of, 3

  nuclear warfare and, 186, 318

  oil supplies of, 4, 38–39

  Palestine under mandate of, 216–19

  U.S. military bases in, 216, 220, 240, 440

  wartime blockade by, 5–6

  in World War I, 18, 20–21, 22, 25, 31, 74

  in World War II, 95, 98–105, 108–16, 119–22, 124, 128, 179

  Great Depression, 45–63, 123, 143, 182, 462, 484

  Great Illusion, The (Angell), 3

  Great Society, 326, 353–54, 353, 400–401

  Greece, 28, 114, 123, 124, 182, 184, 206, 207, 208, 209, 262, 555, 613

  ancient, 18–19

  Communists in, 188

  Green, Marshall, 350, 352

  Green party, West German, 444–45

  Greenspan, Alan, 526–27

  Greenwald, Glenn, 552, 563–64, 574

  Gregory, Thomas W., 13–14

  Grenada, U.S. invasion of, 434–36, 437

  Grenadan People’s Revolutionary Army, 436

  Grew, Joseph, 146–47

  Gromyko, Andrei, 164–65, 172, 196, 218, 319, 413

  Groves, Leslie, 113, 136–37, 137, 144, 159–61, 163, 166, 177, 186, 196, 223

  Gruenberg, Ernest M., 126

  Gruson, Sydney, 264–65

  Guam, xxii, 240, 255

  Guantánamo Bay:

  U.S. military base a
t, xxvii, 279, 304, 310

  U.S. military prison at, 391, 507, 508, 511, 511, 513, 522, 567, 574

  Guardian, 564, 569

  Guatemala, xxx, 40, 291, 338, 392, 412, 427–30, 604

  massacre of Mayan peasants in, 428, 430

  U.S. overthrow of government of, 260–66, 320, 373

  Guevara, Ernesto “Che,” 266, 279

  Gulf War Syndrome, 478

  Hadley, Stephen, 513, 519

  Hague Declaration Concerning Asphyxiating Gases of 1899, 19

  Hahn, Otto, 20, 272

  Haifa, 217

  Haig, Alexander, 375, 388, 425, 427, 432

  Haile Selassie, 406

  Haiphong, 362, 386, 387

  Haiti, xvi, xxx, xxxii, 40, 391

  Halberstam, David, 290, 292, 329

  Haldeman, Bob, 250, 355, 360, 362, 390

  Halifax, Lord, 120, 190

  Halliburton, 490, 492, 493, 531

  Halloween Day Massacre, 399

  Halsey, William “Bull,” 146, 149, 176

  Hamas, 534, 601

  Hamilton, Lee, 420, 500

  Hammett, Dashiell, 108, 232

  Hannegan, Robert, 140, 143, 193

  Hanoi, 362, 386, 387

  Harding, Warren G., 37, 90

  “return to normalcy” of, 39–40

  Harriman, W. Averell, 96, 102, 113–14, 120–24, 127, 180, 188–89, 248, 259, 314, 326

  Harris, Katherine, 493–94

  Hart, Howard, 459, 542, 581

  Harvard University, 21, 60, 359, 364–65, 371, 396, 481, 484, 533, 547, 590

  Havel, Václav, 469

  Hawaii, xvi, xvii, 99, 549, 611

  annexation of, xxii, xxiii

  HAWK antiaircraft missiles, 457

  Hay, John, xxii, xxv

  Hayes, Rutherford B., xix

  Haymarket riots, xx

  Haywood, “Big Bill,” 14, 15

  health care, 57, 62, 556

  Clinton’s plan for, 484

  Obama’s program for, 558–59

  in underdeveloped countries, 391

  universal, xii

  Hearst, William Randolph, 2, 71

  Hecksher, Henry, 372–74

  hedge fund managers, 546, 547, 554

  hedge funds, 552, 554, 560

  Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin, 459, 591

  Hellman, Christopher, 611

  Hellman, Lillian, 60, 232

  Helms, Richard, 335, 373–75

  Helsinki Accords of 1975, 379

  Hemingway, Ernest, 41, 60, 367

  Hersey, John, 200

  Hersh, Seymour, 367–68, 369, 536, 570

  Hezbollah, 436, 457, 534, 601

  Hibakusha, 169, 170

  high-tech weapons, 478, 507, 509, 610

  Hilsman, Roger, 316, 349

  Himmler, Heinrich, 128

  Hindustan Standard, 281

  Hirabayashi v. United States, 156

  Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 145–48, 162, 164, 173, 175, 178, 179

  Hiroshima, 391, 491, 539

  bombing of, xiv, 44, 146, 157, 160, 166–72, 169, 170, 171, 176–78, 180, 181, 185, 200, 252, 256, 270–72, 281, 283, 415, 482, 524

  nuclear power plant proposed for, 272

  “Hiroshima” (Hersey), 200

  Hispanics, 484, 551

  Hiss, Alger, 66, 70, 231, 247

  history, U.S. citizens’ ignorance of, xiii

  Hitler, Adolf, 22, 37, 44, 45, 54, 80–81, 94, 97–98, 105, 108, 128, 133, 134, 158, 215, 219, 332

  as analogy, 265, 271, 475–76

  Axis formed by, 87–88, 89

  blitzkrieg of, 88–89

  Munich capitulation to, 88

  on Rhineland invasion, 83–84

  Soviet Union and, 94–96

  Stalin’s pact with, 60, 88, 102, 105, 124–25

  suicide of, 125

  U.S. supporters of, 52–53, 77–80, 254

  Hitler Youth, 80

  Ho Chi Minh, 32, 33, 238, 250, 266, 269–70, 335, 366, 367, 387

  Holbrooke, Richard, 403

  Hollywood Ten, 212, 232–33, 234

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 80–81, 423

  Holocaust, 82, 216, 218, 422, 476

  homosexuality, 234–35

  military and, 484

  Honduras, xxx, 40, 265, 338, 347, 412, 428, 430, 603, 604

  Hoover, Herbert, 33, 46–47, 47, 116, 176, 640n

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 39, 43, 152, 212, 232, 235, 337, 340, 362

  at DOJ Radical Division, 35

  Security Index of, 35, 235

  Hoover Institute, 399

  Hopkins, Harry, 50, 63, 96, 103, 105, 117, 128–29

  Horner, Richard, 277–78

  House, Edward, 9, 31, 33

  House of Representatives, U.S., 326, 478, 521

  Armed Services Committee of, 277, 543

  Government Operations Subcommittee of, 300

  Judiciary Committee of, 390

  McSwain bill in, 72

  Naval Affairs Subcommittee of, 156

  PATRIOT Act in, 505

  Republican Conference of, 484

  Select Committee on Intelligence of, 430, 472

  Un-American Activities Committee of (HUAC), 64, 212, 233, 247

  housing, 438, 556

  Huerta, Victoriano, 2–3

  Hu Jintao, 610

  Hull, Cordell, 68, 71, 73, 83, 106, 111, 112, 114, 123, 190

  human rights, 429, 490

  in Afghanistan, 489

  Carter’s campaign for, 391

  in China, 408

  in El Salvador, 433

  in Guatemala, 428, 430, 433

  Helsinki Accords and, 379

  Kirkpatrick’s dismissal of, 424

  in Pakistan, 416

  in U.S., 408

  as vehicle for attacks on Soviets, 406, 408

  Human Rights Watch, 577, 594

  Humphrey, Hubert, 269, 328, 334, 356–60, 365

  Hungary, 33, 90, 111, 114, 304, 463, 469

  casualties of, 87

  Communist coup in, 208, 346, 468

  NATO and, 471, 486

  Hunt, E. Howard, 266, 386

  Huntington, Samuel, xv

  Hussein, King of Jordan, 282

  Hussein, Saddam, 491, 598, 685n

  Clinton on, 492

  G. H. W. Bush’s crusade against, 473–78, 480–81

  G. W. Bush’s agenda for, 502–3, 513–20, 526, 529

  U.S. alliance with, 419–20, 439–40, 473

  Huston, Tom, 371–72

  Hutchins, Robert, 177–78

  hydrogen bomb, 229–30, 252–53, 255, 270–72, 280–81

  proposed peaceful uses for, 283–84

  hydrogen-cobalt bomb, 230

  IBM, 77, 82

  Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, 190, 217, 219

  Iceland, 205, 450

  Ickes, Harold, 50, 61, 63, 193–94, 198, 199

  I. G. Farbenindustrie, 78, 198, 254

  Ikle, Fred, 384, 490

  Immigration Act of 1924, 151

  Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952, 156

  improvised explosive devices (IEDs), 589–90

  India, 105, 112–13, 138, 182, 189, 190, 194, 241, 257, 271, 281, 290, 305, 314, 488, 490, 518, 521, 576, 591, 608–9, 611

  nuclear weapons of, 518, 535–36, 608

  Pakistani disputes with, 535–36

  per capita wealth in, 546

  Indiana, 505

  Indochina, 327, 367, 394

  French, 32, 100, 112–13, 138, 238, 246, 257, 266–70, 281, 304, 316, 361, 384

  Indonesia, 100, 237, 266, 328, 347–53, 356, 549, 604, 606, 612

  Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), 348, 350, 352

  intellectuals, Soviet Union and, 56–57

  intelligence, militarization of, 542–43

  Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), 345, 375

  intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs):

  Russian Topol-M, 540, 541

  SALT limitations on, 379

  Soviet, 274–75, 275,
278–79, 302, 306

  U.S., 278–79, 302, 306, 383, 541

  Interior Department, U.S., 193, 284

  Loyalty Board of, 212

  intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs), 296, 414, 449, 451, 459

  Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, 459

  International Atomic Energy Agency, 600

  International Criminal Court, 496

  International Jew, The (Ford), 79–80, 81

  International Labour Organization, 546

  international law, 549

  U.S. violations of, 436, 456

  International Monetary Fund (IMF), 112, 477, 484

  International Nickel Company, 254

  investment banks, 552, 554

  I Paid Hitler (Thyssen), 1

  Iran, 189, 190, 205, 206, 217, 238, 257, 338, 411, 413, 476, 478, 488, 503, 518, 528, 533–34, 569, 576, 601

  arms sold to, 431, 439, 455, 457

  Chalabi’s connections to, 529

  CIA support for shah of, 259–60, 261, 408

  as future target, 523, 526

 

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