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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