Read Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties Online
Authors: Paul Johnson
Tags: #History, #World, #20th Century
152 Nicholas Wade,
The Ultimate
Experiment: man-made evolution
(New York 1977).
153
Nature
, 17 September 1981, 176.
154 Quotations from Edward Wilson,
Sociobiology
(Harvard 1975) and
On Human Nature
(Harvard
1979).
155 Alexander Pope,
An Essay on Man
(London 1733–4), Ep., I, line 2.
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Abadan, 491, 713
Abane, Ramdane, 497, 499
Abbas, Allouah, 499
Abbas, Ferhat, 499
Abbott, Charles, 249
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 486, 487
Abstraction, 114
Abyssinia,
see
Ethiopia
Acheson, Dean; 257, 439, 440, 447–8, 474, 626, 627, 631, 632, 637
Action française
, 145, 576
Adams, Henry, 207
Adams, James Truslow, 222
Adams, John Quincy, 614
Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 218
Adams, Sherman, 462
Addis, Sir Charles, 235
Addis Ababa, 321, 512, 537
Adenauer, Konrad, 279–80, 290, 577, 579–86, 591, 593, 597–8, 599–600
Afghanistan, 44, 717–20, 754, 757
Africa: Christianity in, 704, 706; Islam in, 707; population growth, 724; agriculture, food production, 727–8
Afro-Asian Conference (Bandung, 1955), 477, 480, 489–90, 511, 512, 518
Agar, Herbert, 344
Agnew, Spiro, 650
Agricultural Marketing Act (US, 1929), 243, 245
agriculture, farming, 724–7; Russia, 725–6, 767–8; Third World, 727
Agriculture Acts (1920, 1923), 163
AIDS
, 782–3
Ailleret, General, 504
Ain-Abid massacre, 499
air raids, 335–6, 349, 358, 359, 362, 442–7, 635–6
Aizawa, Colonel Saburo, 313
Akhmatova, Anna, 453
Alamein, 410
Albania, 321, 359, 448, 762
Aldington, Richard, 163
Aldrich, Winthrop, 462
Aldrin, Edwin, 630
Alee, Warder, 779
Aleksandrov, G.F., 453
Algeria, 149, 151, 154, 410, 539, 542; Muslim population, 495–6; revolution, 497–504, 507; atrocities and terrorism, 497–500, 503; independence, 504–5; racism, 526
Algiers, 499–504, 688
Ali, Mohammed, 477
All-Russian Congress of Soviets, 82; (1917) 62, 63; (1918) 78; (1920) 79
Ail-Union Congress of Soviets (1923), 77
Alleg, Henri, 500
Allen, Clifford, 349
Allen, Frederick Lewis, 218
Allende, Salvador, 737–8
‘Alliance for progress’, 615
Alsace, 21, 140, 141
America: war corporatism, 16–17; and peace settlement, 22–5, 27, 31—4; as war creditor, 35–6; violence in, 38; naval policy, 173–4; attitude to Japan, 188–9, 203, 310, 391–3; race policy and xenophobia, 189, 203–7, 215; culture, 207–9, 225–7; Prohibition, 209–12; corruption, 210–12, 217–18, 650–3; decline in radicalism, 212–16, 225; economy, 212, 214, 215–16, 222–6, 228, 230–60, 456–7, 464, 613, 639–41, 659–63, 665, 727; prosperity of 1920s, 222–6, 228–9; spread of education, 225; economic crisis (1930s), 230–60; protectionist policy, 232, 246; intellectuals’ reaction, 247–8, 252; isolationalism, 281, 310; disarmament, 344; arms supply to Allies, 370–1; and Second World War, 370–1, 387, 391–5, 398–9, 408–9, 422–6, 433–5; code- breaking, 398–400; nuclear weaponry, 406–9, 424–5, 441, 442–3; attitude to Russia and Cold War, 432–43, 457–65, 614; commitment to Europe, 439–43, 614; foreign and defence policy, 442–3, 447–8, 450–1; and Far East, 443, 445, 447–8, 450–1, 460–1, 463; confrontation with China, 450–1, 631; post-war prosperity, 456–7, 464, 613; anti- Communist witch-hunt, 458–61; oil production, 460; and Zionism, 484–5; universalist policy, 614- 15, 633; and Latin America, 615–30; increasing confrontation with Russia, 615, 623–8, 631; space programme, 629–30; and Indo-China, 630–7, 653; high-spending legislation, 638–41; educational expansion, 641–3; student violence, 643-6; integration in education, 644–5; black violence, 645–6; media power and misrepresentation, 647, 649–53; new China policy, 648–9; renewed xenophobia, 649, 651–3; political espionage, 651–3; economic expansion, 660; anti-business climate, 660–2; increased legislative power, 662–3; economic decline, 663–5; and arms race, 685–6; increasing criticism of, 690–4; alleged imperialism, 690, 693–4; religion in, 704; post-war occupation of Japan, 730–1; shifting centre of gravity, political changes, 747–50; defender or rule of law, 751–3; drug abuse in, 752, 782; rearmament, 753–4; and Gulf War, Iraq, 769–73;
see also
Latin America
American Federation of Labor, 225, 232, 244
American Relief Administration, 93, 242
Amery, Leo, 43, 162
Amin, Hafizullah, 718–19
Amin, Idi, 533–7, 541, 689
Amristar massacre, 45–7, 521
Amtorg, 260
Anderson, Benjamin, 216
Anderson, Sherwood, 252
Andrew, A.P., 134
Andropov, Yuri, 683, 754, 755
Angka Loeu
, 654–5, 656
Anglo-German Naval Treaty (1935), 351
Anglo-Japanese Treaty (1905), 173, 188
Anglo-Russian Treaty of Alliance (1945), 429
Angola, 519, 542, 728
Anschluss
, 39, 319, 356
Anti-Comintern Pact (1936), 321, 352, 360, 386
anti-Semitism, 420; Arab, 481–2; European, ending of, 486; French, 144, 346, 576; Marxist dismissal of, 128; Nazi, 133, 278, 293, 319, 342–3; Russian, 116, 117, 454–6; student, 127; in UN, 690; Weimar German, 116–22, 127, 133
anti-Westernism, 452–3
anti-white racism, 526–7
Antonov Ovseenko, Vladimir, 335
apartheid, 520, 5
21–4
, 526, 728–9
Apollo programme, 630
Apostles, The, 29, 166–8, 171, 172, 347
appeasement, 351, 354–5, 356
‘April Theses’ (Lenin), 62, 89
Arab Legion, 485
Arab Liberation Army, 485
Arafat, Yasser, 534, 689
Araki, General Sadao, 189, 311
Aref, Abdul Rahman, 666
Argentina, 155, 616–18, 671, 750–1
Arias, Carlos, 609
Arias, Gino, 319
Armenia, 766
Arms Export Control Act (US, 1975), 653
armaments, pre-war: Germany, 293, 294, 297, 312, 341, 357; Japan, 312; America, 344; France, 346; Britain, 367–8
armaments, post-war, 442–3, 452, 685–7, 753–4; disarmament, 757;
see also
nuclear weapons
Armstrong, Neil, 630
Aron, Robert, 143
‘Arusha Declaration’ (1967), 529–30
Asquith, H.H., 169
Asquith, Raymond, 162
assassination, political, 184–6, 298–305, 314, 335, 398, 481–4, 497–500, 534
assimilation policy, 496, 497
Astor, Lady, 276
Aswan Dam, 490
Ataturk, Kemal, 45, 95, 138, 197
atheism, 7, 48, 145, 701
Atlantic Charter, 429
atomic bomb,
see
nuclear weapons
‘Atoms for Peace’ programme, 686
atrocities, 318, 327–8, 335–6, 427–8, 497–500, 531, 532–7, 572, 654–7
Attadell, Garcia, 327
Attlee, Clement, 467, 482, 487
Auden, W.H., 336, 337
Auschwitz, 304, 414, 415, 416–18, 419, 422
Australia, 175, 189, 732, 746
Austria, 37, 38, 242, 278; national socialism in, 95;
Anschluss
, 319, 352–3, 356; murdered Jews from, 415
Austria–Hungary, 37; break-up of, 22, 24, 38–9
Auténticos
, 619
Avksientiev, N.D., 71
Axelrod, Paul, 128
Axis Pact (1940), 387, 390
Ayer, Sir A.J., 699
Aylwin, Patricio, 739
Azerbaijan, 766
Azzam Pasha, 486, 489
Babel, Isaac, 306
Bach, Lydia, 81
Bagehot, Walter, 239, 240
Bainville, Jacques, 145, 147
Baker, Josephine, 119
Baker, Newton, 206
Balabanov, Angelica, 319
Balbo, Italo, 98–9, 103
Baldwin, Stanley, 164, 175, 310, 349
Balfour, A.J., 18, 25, 27, 235
Balfour Declaration (1917), 22, 481, 482, 486
ballistic missiles, 405–6
Ballod, Karl, 94
Baltic republics, 765, 767
Baltic-White Sea Canal, 274, 275
Bamberg Conference (1926), 278
Banda, Dr Hastings, 531
Bandung Conference (1955), 477, 480, 489–90, 511, 512, 518
Bangladesh, 569, 573, 574
Bank of England, 235, 237, 669
Banking Acts (US, 1933, 1935), 255
Bantu Education Act (1954), 523
Barcelona, 323, 328; in civil war, 333–4, 335, 336, 338, 339
Baring Maurice, 163
Barnes, Maynard, 437
Barnowsky, Victor, 113
Barres, Maurice, 148
Barthes, Roland, 695
Baruch, Bernard, 16, 35, 88
Basque separatists, 688
Bataan ‘death march’, 428
Batista, Fulgencio, 619, 620–2
Bauer, Otto, 128, 153, 323
Bauhaus, 112, 114
Bay of Pigs operation (1961), 463, 624, 629, 630
‘Bayeux constitution’ (1946), 589, 595
Beamish, Henry Hamilton, 348
Beard, Charles, 228, 248
Beaverbrook, Lord, 370, 385
Beauvoir, Simone de, 544, 575
Beck, Ludwig, 353, 354
Begin, Menachem, 482, 483, 708
Beirut, 708, 716
Belgium, 188, 189, 415, 514–15
Bell, Clive, 29, 167
Below, Georg von, 126
Belzec, 415
Ben Bella, Ahmed, 496, 497, 505, 516
Ben-Gurion, David, 484, 486
Benda, Julien, 143, 337
Benelux, 448, 591
Benes, Edouard, 235, 440
Benin, 541, 542
Benjamin, Walter, 284
Bennett, General Gordon, 395
Bentley, Elizabeth, 458
Beraud, Henri, 142
Berg, Alban, 8, 113, 117
Bergner, Elisabeth, 116
Beria, Lavrenti, 302, 409, 455, 674–5
Bérillon, Dr Edgar, 145
Berle, Adolf, 27, 248
Berlin, Irving, 227
Berlin, 284, 582; as artistic world centre, 112–13; burning of Reichstag, 285; Hitler’s death in, 412–13; blockade, 440-2; Wall, 586, 760
Bernal, J.D., 276, 348
Bernanos, Georges, 328
Berzin, General Jan Antonovich, 335
Besant, Annie, 42
Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von, 12, 15, 16, 107, 108
Bevan, Aneurin, 467
Bevin, Ernest, 437, 466–7, 483–4
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, 570, 571, 573
Biafra, 514
Big Bang theory, 698–9
Bihar, 569, 572
biology, 777–80
Birkenhead, F.E. Smith, Lord, 221, 346
Birmingham (Alabama), 645
Bismarck, Otto von, 107, 108, 115, 116, 122, 134, 140
Black Dragon sect, 183, 185
Blackett, P.S.M., 402, 467
Blair, General Sir Chandos, 536
Blech, Leo, 113
Bleichröder, Gerson von, 116
Blitzkrieg
, 358, 359, 362, 364, 366, 377, 379, 401
Bliven, Bruce, 218, 259
Bloch, Ernst, 116
Bloch, Marc, 364
Blomberg, General Werner von, 283, 298, 352
Bloomsbury Group, 29, 166–73
Blum, Léon, 151, 346, 365, 592
Blundell, Sir Michael, 508
Blunden, Edmund, 163
Blunt, Anthony, 172, 347
Blyumkin, Yakov, 266
Boeckler, Hans, 583, 584
Boer Nationalists, 522, 525
Bogota, 620
Bohr, Nils, 407
Bokassa, Marshal Jean Bedel, 532, 541
Bolsheviks, 22, 52, 59, 60–5, 72, 76, 78;
see also
Communist Party; Social Democrats, Russian
Bolton, Sir George, 664
Bondi, Georg, 117
‘Bonus expeditionary force’, 249–50
Book of the Month Club, 225
Borah, William, 258
Boris, Roland, 587
Bormann, Martin, 290, 292
Born, Max, 4
Borodin, Michael, 193, 196
Bose, Chandra, 469
Bose, Rash Behari, 185
Boston (Mass.), 211
Botswana, 526, 542
Bouhler, Philip, 413
Boumendjel, Ahmed, 496
Bourguiba, Habib, 538
Bourne, Randolph, 14, 207
Bowles, Chester, 624
Bradley, General Omar, 436
brainwashing, 548–9, 552
Brandeis, Justice Louis, 204
Brandt, Karl, 412
Brandt, Willy, 335
Brandt Report (1980), 692
Brauchitsch, General Heinrich von, 352, 353
Braudel, Fernand, 597, 695
Braun, Werner Von, 629
Brazil, 671, 673, 694, 703, 706
Brazzaville, 501, 517
Brazzaville Conference (1944), 507
Brazzaville Twelve, 540
Brecht, Bertholt, 112–13, 306, 307
Bredow, General von, 298
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918), 82, 105, 133, 342
Bretton Woods Agreement (1944), 659, 663
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 674