Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America From Colonial Dependence to World Leadership (131 page)

 
Anglo-Japanese Alliance
 
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
 
Anglo-Prussian Convention
 
Anglo-Russian Treaty (1825)
 
Angola
 
Annunzio, Gabriele d’
 
Anson, George, Lord
 
Anti-Masonic Party
 
Arafat, Yasser; and Second Intifada; and Sept. 11 attacks
 
Arbenz, Jacobo
 
Arbuthnot, Alexander
 
Arbuthnot, Mariot (Admiral)
 
Argentina; and Falklands; Germans in
 
Armstrong, John
 
Arnold, Benedict
 
Arthur, Chester A.
 
Articles of Confederation
 
Arvey, Jake
 
Ashburton, Alexander Baring, Lord
 
Asquith, H.H.
 
Assad, Hafez al-
 
Astor, John Jacob
 
Atlantic Charter
 
atomic bomb.
See
nuclear weapons
 
Atomic Energy Commission
 
Attlee, Clement
 
Atwater, Lee
 
Austin, Moses
 
Austin, Stephen E.
 
Australia; British dissenters in; refugees in; and SEATO; in World War II
 
Austria: and Bismarck; and Congress of Vienna; and French war; and Hitler; and Seven Years’ War
 
Austria-Hungary; vs. Serbs; trade with; and Wilson; World War I casualties
 
Ayub Khan, Mohammad
 
Azerbaijan
 
 
Babcock, O.E.
 
Bacon, Robert
 
Badoglio, Pietro
 
Baghdad Pact
 
Baker, Howard
 
Baker, James A.; and Bush v. Gore; and German reunification; and Gulf War; and Iraq War
 
Baker, Newton D.
 
Balfour, James
 
Ballinger, Richard
 
Bancroft, George
 
Bank of the United States; and Jackson; and Madison
 
Barak, Ehud
 
Barbary pirates
 
Barkley, Alben W
 
Bates, Edward
 
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of
 
Batista, Fulgencio
 
“Battle Hymn of the Republic,”
 
Bayard, James A.
 
Bayard, Thomas F.
 
Bayard-Chamberlain Treaty
 
Beauregard, Pierre G.T.
 
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, Lord
 
Beckford, William
 
Bedell Smith, Walter
 
Bedford, Gunning
 
Begin, Menachem
 
Belgium; and Congo; secession by; and World War I
 
Belknap, WW
 
Bell, John
 
Belmont, August
 
Benedict XV, Pope
 
Ben Gurion, David
 
Benson, Allan
 
Benton, Thomas Hart
 
Bentsen, Lloyd
 
Bergamini, Carlo
 
Beria, Lavrenti
 
Beria, Sergio
 
Berkman, Alexander
 
Bernstorff, Johann-Heinrich, Count von
 
Bevin, Ernest
 
Biddle, Nicholas
 
Biden, Joseph
 
Bigot, François
 
bin Laden, Osama
 
Bishop, Maurice
 
Bismarck, Otto von; on American rise; anti-Catholicism of; and Austria-Hungary; on Balkans; dismissal of; and Samoa; and social insurance
 
Black, Eugene
 
Black, Jeremiah S.
 
Black Hawk War
 
Blaine, James G.
 
Blair, Francis
 
Blair, John
 
Bland-Allison Act
 
Blount, James
 
Blount, William
 
Blunt, Anthony
 
Bogart, Humphrey
 
Bohlen, Charles E.
 
Bolivar, Simón
 
Bolsheviks
 
Bonaparte, Napoleon I.
See
Napoleon I (Bonaparte)
 
Bonvouloir, Julien Alexander Achard, Chevalier de
 
Borah, William E.
 
Borden, Sir Robert L.
 
Bork, Robert
 
Boscawen, Edward
 
Bosnia
 
Boston Tea Party
 
Bowers, Claude
 
Bowles, Chester
 
Braddock, Edward
 
Bradley, Joseph P.
 
Bradley, Omar N.; in Korean War; vs. MacArthur; at Potsdam; and Vietnam
 
Bradley, William
 
Bradstreet, John
 
Bragg, Braxton
 
Brandt, Willy
 
Braun, Eva
 
Breckinridge, Henry
 
Breckinridge, John C.
 
Bremer, Paul
 
Brereton, Lewis H.
 
Brezhnev, Leonid; and Afghanistan; at arms-control talks; death of; and Nixon; on Vietnam; and Yom Kippur War
 
Brezhnev Doctrine
 
Briand, Aristide
 
Bricker, John W
 
British Commonwealth; and Churchill; and World War II
 
British Guyana
 
Brock, Isaac
 
Brooke, Sir Alan; at Cairo Conference; vs. Marshall; at Quebec Conference; at Tehran Conference
 
Brooks, Preston
 
Brown, B. Gratz
 
Brown, Edmund G.
 
Brown, Jerry
 
Brown, John
 
Brown v. Board of Education
 
Brunswick, Ferdinand, Duke of
 
Brunswick, Louis, Duke of
 
Bryan, Charles
 
Bryan, William Jennings; and Darwinism; on Philippines; popularity of; as presidential candidate; as secretary of state; as Wilson backer; and World War I
 
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
 
Buchanan, James; and Fort Sumter; presidency of; as presidential candidate; on secession; as secretary of state; on slavery issue
 
Buchanan, Pat
 
Buckley, James
 
Budget Act of 1921
 
Buell, Don Carlos
 
Bulganin, Nikolai
 
Bulwer, Sir Henry Lytton
 
Bundy, McGeorge
 
Bunau-Varilla, Philippe
 
Bunker, Ellsworth
 
Burchard, Samuel D.
 
Burgess, Guy
 
Burgoyne, John
 
Burke, Edmund; sympathy for Americans
 
Burma; Nixon in; in World War II
 
Burnside, Ambrose E.
 
Burr, Aaron; duel & murder charge; and Jefferson; and Tammany Hall; treason trial
 
Bush, George H.W.; election campaigns; and German reunification; and Gorbachev; and Gulf War (1991); and Iraq Study Group; Japan visit; and Noriega; qualifications of; and Somalia; as vice president
 
Bush, George W; and Afghanistan; and banking crisis; democracy agenda; election of; and India agreement; and Iraq War; reelection of; and Sept. 11 attacks; War on Terror
 
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of
 
Butler, Andrew
 
Butler, Benjamin
 
Butler, Pierce
 
Butler, Rab
 
Butler, Smedley
 
Butler, William O.
 
Byng, John
 
Byrd, Harry F.
 
Byrnes, James F.
 
 
Cadogan, Sir Alexander
 
Cadore, Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny, Duke de
 
Cairncross, John
 
Calhoun, John C.; and Bank of the U.S.; and Clay;
Disquisition on Government
; as secretary of state; sidelining of; and slavery issue; on states’ rights; and Tariff of Abominations; as vice president; as war hawk; vs. Webster; and Whig Party; as “Young Demosthenes,”
 
Callender, James Thomson
 
Calles, Plutarco
 
Cambodia; and France; Khmer Rouge in;
Mayaguez
incident; and Vietnam War
 
Cambon, Jules
 
Cambon, Paul
 
Cameron, Simon
 
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry
 
Canada; American venture in; banking prudence; and Bering Strait; border settlement; and de Gaulle; Fenian invasion; and fishing rights; and France; Franklin on; natives in; Quebec Act; rebels from; and Suez crisis; trade with; and Treaty of Paris; unification of; and War of 1812
 
Canadian Reciprocity Treaty
 
Canning, George
 
Cárdenasázaro
 
Carleton, Sir Guy (Lord Dorchester)
 
Carnegie, Andrew
 
Carnegie Steel
 
Carranza, Venustiano
 
Carroll, Daniel
 
Carter, Jimmy; Camp David Accords; on civil rights; defense cuts; on human rights; and Iran; on neutron bomb; and Panama Canal; reelection campaign; and SALT II; and Sandinistas ; stagflation under
 
Casablanca
(film)
 
Casaroli, Agostino Cardinal
 
Casey, William
 
Cass, Lewis; and Indian wars; as presidential candidate; as secretary of state
 
Castillo Armas, Carlos
 
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Lord; and Congress of Vienna
 
Castro, Fidel; and Bay of Pigs; in Central America; and Eisenhower
 
Catherine II (the Great), Empress
 
Catholicism; and Cleveland election; and FDR coalition; Ferraro; hostility to; and Kennedy;in Quebec; Smith candidacy; Taney; and Washington

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