Authors: Ira Katznelson
containment strategy in, 32
Collier’s,
415, 437
Collins, Charles Wallace, 139–41, 143–44, 187
Collins, Ross, 143
Colm, Gerhard, 377, 381, 503
Colmer, William, 143, 255, 293, 311, 368
Cologne, Germany, 74, 350
Columbia University, 457
Columbus, Christopher, 65
Combined Chiefs of Staff, 355
Commerce Department, U.S., 65, 401
Business Advisory Council of, 244–45
Commercial Appeal,
285
Committee on Administrative Management, 5, 93–94
Committee on Economic Security, 260
Committee on Elections, 199
Committee on Fair Employment Practices, 144
Committee on World War Veterans Legislation, 205
commodity prices, 158
Commonwealth Club, 249
Communications Act (1934), 322
Communism, 5, 106–7
investigation in U.S. of, 328
Communist Party, Italian, 440
Communist Party, U.S., 54, 205, 330, 341, 427, 463, 602
Communist Party, USSR, 51, 98
Communists, German, 110
Compass, Operation, 511
Compromise of 1877, 156
Compton, Arthur, 350, 414, 613
Compton, Karl, 595
Compulsory Military Training Bill, 280
compulsory national labor service, 196
Conant, James B., 346, 347, 403, 408, 457, 638
concentration camps, German, 30, 31, 39, 50, 52, 75–76
Condon, Edward, 415, 463
Conference on Economic Conditions, 170
Congress, U.S., 9, 13, 15, 20, 127–29
Enforcement Act repealed by, 148
in Hundred Days, 123–27
Joint Army and Navy Selection Service Committee, 311
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (JCAE), 433–34, 483
Joint Committee on Defense Production, 443
Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment, 347
Joint Committee on the Economic Report, 380
Joint Economic Committee, 378
legislative process sped up in, 124
NRPB and BOB created by, 375
soldiers’ voting rights and, 196–222
South as pivotal in, 21–22, 24–25, 148–55,
153,
154,
192–93,
192
traditional powers of, 121–22
see also
House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Congressional Digest,
198–99, 384
Congressional Record,
280, 304, 388, 543
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 89, 173, 174, 183, 190, 205, 258, 273, 274, 330, 344, 390, 391–92, 393, 396, 398, 433, 486, 550, 563, 627
Connally, Tom, 240, 256, 303, 304–5, 389, 390, 422, 431, 434, 443, 573
Connor, Eugene “Bull,” 187
conscription, 214, 310–13, 315
conservation, 84
conservatism, 6–7, 16
Consolidated Aircraft, 398
Constitution, U.S., 22, 91, 117–18, 121, 144, 185, 471
see also specific amendments
Consumers’ Advisory Board, 230
consumption, 38
containment, 32
Contract Settlements Act (1944), 368
Contract Termination Board, 368
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 514
Cooley, Harold, 644
Coolidge, Calvin, 150–51, 253, 540
Copeland, Samuel, 268
Corporate State, The
(Viglione), 93
corporatism, 51, 162–63, 233, 235, 237, 238, 401–2
Corregidor, 214
Corriere Padano,
68
Corwin, Edward, 335, 337
Costigan, Edward, 160, 167, 168, 179
cotton, 127, 171, 264, 266, 289, 385
cotton ginning, 242
Cotton Textile Code, 231
Couch, W. T., 138–39, 141
Coughlin, Charles, 57, 471
Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), 372, 380–82, 502
Council of State Government, 379
Council on Foreign Affairs, 279
Council on Foreign Relations, 299, 319
Coventry, England, 41, 351
Cowles, John, 370
Cox, Edward, 180, 181, 257
Coy, Wayne, 376, 627
credit, 35, 38
Creighton, Mandell, 523
Crimea Declaration, 77
crises, 7–8
Crociera del Decennale, 58
Crossroads, Operation, 448
Crouch, Paul, 482
Crouch, Sylvia, 482
Crowther, Frank, 236
Cummings, Homer, 326
currency, 146
Currey, Muriel, 508
Curtis, Carl Thomas, 568
Cushman, Robert, 458–59
CWA, 36
Czechoslovakia, 277, 288–89, 301, 418, 472
Dabney, Virginius, 157, 282
Dachau, 30
Dahl, Robert, 478, 481
Daily Worker,
334, 492
Dallas Morning News,
357
Danaher, John, 211
Darlan deal, 16
Davidson, Donald, 551
Davis, Allison, 15
Davis, John, 381
D-day, 321, 355
Deák, István, 512
decentralization, 384
Declaration of the Three Powers, 195
decolonization, 13
DeConde, Alexander, 586
Defense Department, U.S., 409, 439, 444, 448, 449, 451–52, 454, 461
Defense Plant Corporation, 344–45
Defense Reorganization Act (1949), 421, 422–23, 426, 445
Degler, Carl, 248
Delano, Frederic, 379
Delaware, 22, 136, 149, 165, 204, 211, 242
democracy:
dictatorship vs., 7, 16, 25, 45, 50, 51, 113–14, 245, 321, 354, 463
in legislature, 109
militarism and, 318–20
three problems with, 479
Democracy in America
(Tocqueville), 136
Democratic National Convention:
of 1932, 487
of 1936, 176, 206
Democratic Party, U.S.:
African Americans in, 177–78
CEA and, 381–82
1942 electoral losses of, 378
in South, 16, 18, 23, 84, 139, 148, 149, 150, 177–78, 193, 329, 363, 396, 423
Southern shift in, 16, 272, 390
twenty-year rule of, 4
unions and, 372
Dempsey, John, 604
Denmark, 70, 277, 418, 593
Dennis, Lawrence, 56
DePriest, Oscar, 329, 544
Detention Review Board, 464
Detroit, Mich., race riot in, 218
Detroit Free Press,
473
Dewey, Thomas, 217, 551
DeWitt, J. L., 339
Dickinson, John, 242, 245
Dickinson, Lester, 264–65
Dickstein, Samuel, 329, 603
dictatorships, 4, 20, 105–8
by consent, 107
democracy vs., 7, 16, 25, 45, 50, 51, 113–14, 245, 321, 354, 463
internal security of, 52–53
risk in U.S. of, 43–44
Dies, Martin, 149, 177, 328–29, 330, 339, 582
Dies, Martin, Sr., 329, 603
Dies committee,
see
House of Representatives, U.S., Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Dies Foundation for Americanism, 331–32
Dinant, Belgium, 101
Dingley Tariff, 261
Dirksen, Everett, 83, 384
diversity, 108
Divine, Robert, 305
Dixie, Operation, 391–92
Dodd, William F., 32, 496–97
Dolomites, 101
Donbass coal mines, 59
Donnedieu de Vabres, Henri, 71
Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,” 322, 439, 646
Double V campaign, 185, 218
Doughton, Robert Lee, 236, 238, 239, 260, 386
Douglas, Lewis, 572
Douglas, Paul, 116–17, 465
Douhet, Giulio, 507–8
Douty, H. F., 184
Downey, William B., 405
Doxey, Wall, 143, 563
draft, 310–13, 315
Draganovi
ć
, Krunoslav, 445
Drake, St. Clair, 15
Dresden, Germany, 74
Dritte Reich, Das
(Moeller van den Bruck), 105
Drug Institute of America, 229
Drury, Allen, 201
Dual Alliance, 100
Du Bois, W. E. B., 4, 15, 138, 494
Dulles, Allen, 319, 440, 590
du Pont, T. Coleman, 540
DuRant, Ellison, 206
Duranty, Walter, 54–55
Durbrow, Elbridge, 412
Durham, Carl, 427, 434
Dutch East Indies, 41
Earle, Edward Meade, 318
Early, Stephen, 159
East Asia, 117
Eastland, James O., 189–90, 203, 204, 205–6, 221–22, 408, 563, 568
Eaton, Charles, 238
Eberharter, Herman, 312
Eberstadt, Ferdinand, 438–39, 646
economic planning, 236–38
Economic Stabilization Act (1942), 343
Economy Act (1933), 123, 235
Eden, Anthony, 75
education, 171, 177, 196
Egypt, 511
Eighth Air Force, U.S., 72
Einstein, Albert, 414
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 19, 34, 197, 410, 418, 457, 460, 472–75, 478, 480, 483
Darlan deal made by, 16
election of, 4
farewell address of, 473
inauguration of, 38, 467, 472
Korean front toured by, 468–69
on U.S.’s leadership role, 472–73
Eisenhower, Milton, 340
elections, German, 1933, 110
elections, U.S.:
of 1896, 150
of 1916, 165, 510
of 1924, 148
of 1928, 159
of 1930, 151
of 1932, 4, 149, 150, 159, 175, 249
of 1934, 151, 175–76
of 1936, 151, 165–66, 176, 265
of 1938, 143, 151–52, 330
of 1940, 142, 152, 551
of 1942, 216, 378
of 1944, 216, 217
of 1948, 442–43, 450, 626
of 1952, 474, 609
of 1956, 609
of 1960, 609
of 1964, 609
of 1968, 446, 609
electronics, 396
Ellender, Allen, 91, 92, 180, 266
Elston, Charles, 433
Emancipation Proclamation, 200, 230
Emergency Banking Act (1933), 123
Emergency Farm Mortgage Act (1933), 123
Emergency Powers Defense Bill (British; 1940), 310
Emergency Price Control Act, 343
eminent domain, 230–31, 252
Employment Act, 380–81
Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts by Government,
461
Employment Service, U.S. (USES), 188, 232, 382–83, 384–85, 388, 400
segregation denounced by,
388–89
Enabling Act, German, (1933), 98, 108–9, 124, 522, 527
Enforcement Acts (1870; 1871), 148
Enlightenment, 94, 95
Enola Gay,
405
Eslick, Edward, 328
Espionage Act (1917), 122, 325
Estonia, 277, 356
Ethiopia, 68–69, 94, 291, 292, 299
Ethridge, Mark, 144
European Defense Community Treaty, 472
Evans, Maurice, 535
Evdokimov, Efim Georgievich, 81
Executive Order 8802, 186, 218, 519
Executive Order 9066, 339, 340
Executive Order 9182, 338
Executive Order 9835, 459–60
Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), 86, 87, 186, 188–89, 190, 191, 193, 218, 386, 387–88, 396, 398, 427, 519, 555
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA; 1938), 36, 171, 267, 270, 296, 582–84
Falco, Robert, 76
Farm Credit Act (1933), 124
farmers, agriculture, 22, 37, 85, 127, 162, 163, 171, 241, 396
environmental crisis and, 39
excluded from National Labor Relations Act, 260, 273
in FEPC, 398
subsidies for, 251
farm income, 37, 171
farm prices, 152, 336
farm relief, 146
Farrell, T. F., 404
Fascism, 40, 106–7, 474, 485, 530
aviation and, 61–62
as counterweight to Nazism, 93
modernity of, 52
Mussolini’s praise of, 111–12
New Deal compared to, 56
risk in U.S. of, 43–44, 46
social roots of, 22–23
U.S. national loyalty to, 39
Fayette Chronicle,
178
fear, 29, 33, 37
of competition with dictatorships, 12
in FDR’s inaugural speech, 34–35, 37, 57, 98–99, 135, 196
New Deal and, 36, 37–38, 43
post-World War II, 43
of racial equality, 13–16
of sophisticated weaponry, 12–14
uncertainty as source of, 48
Federal Ballot Commission, 202–3
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 322, 326, 327–28, 333, 338, 339, 341, 439, 459, 460, 462, 483–84, 646–47
Federal Communications Commission, 376
Federal Council of Churches, 291
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 252
Federal Emergency Relief Act (1933), 123
Federal Housing Authority, 24, 36
Federalist Papers,
119, 318–19
Federal Reserve, 144, 251–52
Federal Theatre Project, 330
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 256–57
Federal War Ballot Commission, 221
Federal Writers’ Project, 14
Federation of American Scientists, 414–15
Federation of Atomic Scientists (FAS), 461
Fermi, Enrico, 403
Ferrari, Carlo, 507
fertilizer, 242, 254
Fifteenth Amendment, 133, 134–35, 185, 200, 282
Fifth Amendment, 331
Finland, 76, 277, 593
First Indochina War, 417
Fischer, Louis, 55
Fischler, Benjamin, 87
Fish, Hamilton, 220, 301–2, 304, 308, 309, 328
Fisher, Ovie Clark, 395
Fisher Body plants, 173, 174
Five-Year Plans, 55, 80, 98, 123, 235
Fletcher, Duncan, 256
Florida, 136, 394, 566, 597
force bill, 148
Ford, 273, 398
Ford, Aaron, 143
Ford, Doris, 228
Ford, Elise, 228
Ford, Henry, 304
Foreign Affairs,
413, 457, 458, 590
Foreign Economic Administration, 406
Foreign Policy Association, 592
Foreign Service, 409, 413
Forrestal, James, 437, 438
Fort Benning, 427
Fortune,
46, 244, 276–78, 279–80, 305, 333, 391–93, 430
Four Freedoms speech, 201–2, 207
Fourteenth Amendment, 133, 185, 200, 282
Fox, William T. R., 360
Fraenkel, Ernst, 527
France, 40, 105, 173, 277, 278, 301, 351, 417
in alliance with Russia, 100