Read Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties Online
Authors: Paul Johnson
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Dawes Plan, 147
Dawson, Geoffrey, 356
Day-Lewis, Cecil, 336
Dayan, General Moshe, 485, 492
De Gaulle, General Charles, 27, 192, 507, 577, 587, 589, 590, 611, 633, 663; and Free French, 365; and Algeria, 501–3, 504, 505; seizure of power, 502; President of Fifth Republic, 502, 593–600; intellectualism, 593, 597; theory of state, 594–5; transformation of France, 596–7; meeting with Adenauer, 598; antipathy to Britain, 598–600; and European Community, 765
Dean, Sir Patrick, 430
Déat, Marcel, 147
Death’s Head Units, 287
Debs, Eugene, 17, 34, 216
decolonization, 495–505, 506–43; constitutional complexities, 508; federation, 509–10; professional politicians and, 510–11, 514–15, 517, 543; reversal of material progress, 540–1;
see also
self-determination
Defence of the Realm Act (1914), 16
DeGolyer, Everett, 480
Deir Yassin massacre, 486
Dekanozov, Vladimir, 411
Delhi, 161
Delors, Jacques, 764
‘democratic centralism’, 77, 81
Democratic Party, American, 214, 251, 254, 259, 344, 460, 644, 649, 651
Denikin, General Anton I., 73, 76, 77
Denison, E.F., 641
Denmark, 604, 605
Denning, Lord, 602
Denny, Harold, 307
Desai, Morarji, 568, 570, 571
Detroit, 211; black riots, 646
Deutsch, Julius, 323
Deutscher, Isaac, 263, 271
Devonshire Declaration (1923), 159
Dewey, John, 17, 208, 228
Dez irrigation project, 712
DGB
(Deutschergewerkschaftsbund)
, 584
Diaghilev, Sergei, 8, 9
Diagne, Blaise, 150
Diaz, José, 333
Dicey, A.V., 601
Dickinson, G. Lowes, 170
Diederichs, Eugen, 119
Dien Bien Phu, 590, 632
Dietz, Howard, 227
Dimitrov, Georgi, 323, 448
Dinter, Artur, 120
dissent, Russian treatment of, 680–3
Dix, Otto, 114
Djilas, Milovan, 81, 448
DNA research, 778–9
Döblin, Alfred, 117
Doi, General Akin, 316
Dollfuss, Engelbert, 322
Donovan, William, 437
Dornberger, Walter, 405
Dos Passos, John, 226, 252, 337
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 56, 86, 689
Douglas, Jack, 250
Douglas, Paul, 252
Douhet, Giulio, 349
Dreiser, Theodore, 226, 252
Dresden, 112; destruction of, 404–5
Drieu la Rochelle, Pierre, 19
drug abuse, in America, 752, 782
Drumont, Edouard, 144
‘Dual Mandate’, 155, 513
Dubcek, Alexander, 676
Dubnow, Simon, 128
DuBois, Joseph, 422
Dühring, Eugen, 120
Dulles, John Foster, 27, 36, 462, 463, 464, 624
Dunkirk, 366
Dupuy, Maurice, 499
Duranty, Walter, 307
Dutch East Indies, 391, 395, 478
Dvorak, Max, 114
Dyadkin, Iosif, 272
Dyer, General Reginald, 45–7
Dyson, Sir Frank, 2
Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 67, 68, 69
East Asia, market forces in, 729–30, 733;
see also individual countries
‘East Asian League’, 187
East Fulham by-election (1933), 350
East-West division, 111
Eastern Europe, 757–8, 759–63
Easterners, German, 111–12, 114, 115, 117, 122, 123, 124, 125–7, 135, 144, 280
Eban, Abba, 486
Ebert, Friedrich, 110, 123, 124
Echeverria, Luís, 747
Eckart, Dietrich, 284
Eckhart, Dieter, 119
economic crisis (1930s), 230–60; credit-inflation, 233, 236–8, 240, 244; currency control, 233, 235–8; foreign loans, 233–4; Great Crash, 231, 240–1, 243–54; inflation, 233, 234, 236–8; interventionism, 234–5, 244, 245–7, 251, 254–7; investment-trusting, 239; managed currency, 235, 237; margin-trading, 231, 239; planning, 248–9, 251, 254–7; recovery, 254—7; stabilization, 234, 235, 236–7; stock-eschange speculation, 231, 234, 239, 240; tariffs, 232, 234
‘Economic Rights and Duties of States, UN Charter of (1974), 691
‘Ectopia’, 661
Eddington, Sir Arthur, 2, 3, 5, 699
Eddy, Sherwood, 260
Eden, Anthony, 297, 346, 351, 386, 421, 431, 489; and Suez crisis, 490–3
Edison, Thomas, 220, 259
education: America, 225, 247, 641–5; Britain, 642; China, 552, 556, 562; France, 142, 143, 596; East Asia, 733
Egypt, 44, 154, 475; hostility to Israel, 487; and Suez crisis, 490–5; racism, 526; Israeli war against, 666, 684; Yom Kippur War, 668; peace with Israel, 708, 709; murder of Sadat, 710; and Gulf War, 772
Ehrenburg, Ilya,
65
,
421
Eichmann, Adolf, 288, 414, 416
Einsatzgruppen
, 380, 382, 414
Einstein, Albert, 10, 306, 407; and relativity, 1–5, 11, 406, 453; and scientific proof, 2–3, 6
Einstein, Carl, 114
‘Eisenach Resolution’ (1919), 127
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 219, 250, 436, 451, 599, 614, 624, 645, 650, 652; and Korean War, 460–1, 463; style of presidency, 461–4; aim to avoid war, 463; and civilian control of military, 463–4; economic policy, 464, 613, 629, 640; and Suez, 490, 493, 494, 689; misjudgment over Vietnam, 632–3; media misrepresentation, 647
Eisenstein, Sergei, 453
Eisner, Kurt, 94, 95, 96, 108, 122
El Glawi, Pasha of Marrakesh, 150
electronics, 780–1
Eliot, T.S., 9, 10, 306
Ellis, Havelock, 6
Emergency Banking Act (US, 1934), 254, 255
Emergency Decree (Germany, 1933), 285
Emergency Relief and Construction Act (US, 1932), 245
Employment Acts (1980, 1982), 603
Employment Protection Acts (1975, 1979), 602
Enabling Act (Germany, 1933), 285, 346 energy crisis, 665, 667–71; ‘enabling state’, 746
energy crisis, 665, 667–71
Engels, Friedrich, 55, 213, 270
English Church Census, 704
Enigma coding system, 386, 399, 400
environment protection, 661–2, 697, 774–5
Equal Opportunities Act (US, 1964), 639
Equatorial Guinea, 531, 541
Erhard, Ludwig, 583, 585
Erlander, Tage, 604
Espionage Act (US, 1917), 17, 204
Estonia, 361, 765
Ethiopia (Abyssinia), 154, 320–1, 351, 539, 542, 685, 709, 727
ethnic minorities, 713
Etudiants d’Action Française
, 146
Eurodollar, 663–4, 670
European (Economic) Community, 243, 587, 590, 591, 598, 599–600, 727, 763–5
Evans, Hiram Wesley, 204
Evatt, H.V., 466
Evian Agreements, 504
evolution, 777–8
Existentialism, 575, 576–7, 687
Explorer 1, 629
Expressionism, 8, 9, 114, 119
extermination policies, 71, 92–3, 130, 133, 261, 266, 270–1, 287, 304, 382, 384, 413–22, 430–1, 462, 482, 499–500, 536, 537
Fadaev, Aleksandr, 453
Fadiman, Clifton, 252
Faisceau, Le
, 146
Falange, 327, 331, 334
Falashas, 709
Falkland Islands, 750–1
Fall, Albert, 33, 215, 217
family, 581, 731; ‘one-parent’, 781–2
Fanon, Franz, 687
Farben, LG., 294, 414, 416, 417, 422
farming,
see
agriculture
Farouk, King of Egypt, 487, 488
Fascism, 56–8, 146–7, 306; anti-Communist, 102, 277; collapse of, 579; debt to Leninism, 56–8; expansion of, 98, 100–2; mixture of myth and violence, 96–7, 98–9; Mussolini’s adoption of, 95–6, 97, 101–2, 243; Nazi debt to, 319; nebulous nature, 101–2; totalitarianism, 101, 277, 578
Fashoda, 154
Faubus, Governor Orval, 645
Faulkner, William, 226
Fauves, 8
Federal Reserve Bank, 233, 235, 236, 237, 239, 255
federation, 509–10, 513–14; West German, 581–2
Feel, Captain Adolf, Jr, 429
Feng Yu-hsiang, Marshal, 195, 201
Feraoun, Mouloud, 504
Fermi, Enrico, 407, 424
Fernandez, George, 570
Ferry, Jules, 152, 154
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 117, 306, 307
Field, Sir Frederick, 310
‘Fifth Column’, 334
Fiji, 736
‘Final Solution’, 130, 133, 382, 413–22, 482
Finland, 105, 361, 365, 373
Firestone, Harvey, 220
First Agricultural Adjustment Act (US, 1933), 255
First World War, 9, 11–26, 43–4, 58–62, 72–3, 104–10, 126, 162–3, 342
Fischer, Fritz, 106
Fisher, H.A.L., 74
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 215, 222, 226
Fiume, 95
‘Five Particulars’ (Wilson), 23–4
Five Year Plans, 260, 273
Flandin, Pierre-Etienne, 592
Flex, Walter, 19
Flick, Friedrich, 422
FLN (Front de Liberation Nationale), 496, 497–503
Foch, Marshal, 26, 32, 74
Foot, Michael, 350
‘For the Protection of the German People’ decree (1933), 284
Forbes, Charles, 217
Ford, President Gerald, 640, 654, 670, 672
Ford, Henry, 220
Fordney-MacCumber Tariff Act (1922), 232
Foreign Minister’s Conference (Moscow, 1945), 437
Foreign Trade and’Investment Act (US, 1971), 694
Formosa (Taiwan), 187, 446, 448
Forrestal, James, 437, 441, 481, 485
Forster, E.M., 167, 169, 170
Fortas, Abe, 257
Foster, William Z., 252, 260
‘Four Principles’ (Wilson), 23—4
Four Year Plan (German), 291, 294
‘Fourteen Points’ (Wilson), 23–4, 27, 105
Fowler, Henry, 257, 637
France: war corporatism, 16; post-war (1918) swing to Left, 18; and self-determination, 20–1; scepticism over League, 32; inflation, 35; war-debts, 35; and reparations, 36, 139; occupies, Ruhr, 139; failing alliance with Britain, 138–9, 147, 148, 351–2; fear of German military revival, 138–9; post-war weakness, 140–2; population decrease, 140, 141; inflation, 141, 142; economy, 141–2, 309; as home of civilization, 142–3; intellectual life, 142–3, 575–7, 694–5; battle over culture, 143–4, 145; nationalism, 144–7; patriotism, 144; anti-Semitism, 144, 346, 576; defensive policy, 147–8, 345–6, 563; colonialism, 148–51, 154, 495, 501; forced disarmament, 346; France
(contd)
collapse after German attack, 363–4; drift into Nazi camp, 365–6, 587; and Suez, 491–5; decolonization, 495–505, 507; Fourth Republic recovery, 587, 589–93, 596; constitution, 589–90; technocratic revolution, 590; economy, 590–3, 595–7; and EEC, 590–1, 598, 600; ‘indicative planning’, 591–2; xenophobia, 592; need for strong state, 594–5; Fifth Republic constitution, 595; ‘renewal’, 595–8; accord with Germany, 598; antipathy to Britain, 598–600; and Indo-China, 631, 633; in 1980s, 745; and Gulf War, 771
see also
Vichy Government
France, Anatole, 146
Franco, General Francisco, 323–4, 329, 330– 2, 334, 335, 338–9, 366, 608, 608–9
Frank, Bruno, 117, 306
Frank, Hans, 284, 289, 321
Frank, Waldo, 207, 260
Frankfurt, 112
Frankfurter, Felix, 257, 259
Frazer, Sir James, 7
Free French, 365
Freeman, Joseph, 260
Freikorps, 124, 125
Freisler, Roland, 290, 412
French Resistance, 588
Freud, Sigmund, 5–10, 12, 48, 96, 353
Frick, Wilhelm, 283, 290, 297, 298
Friml, Rudolph, 227
Frisch, Otto, 407
Fritsch, Theodor, 119
Fritsch, Baron Werner von, 352
Frunze, M.V., 265
Fry, Roger, 168
Fuchs, Klaus, 458
Führerprinzip, 279
Fulbright, William, 257, 634
Fuller, General, J.F.C., 349
Fuller, R. Buckminster, 4
Fulton, Churchill speech at (1946), 437, 438
Funk, Walther, 284, 291
Fushun, 201
Futurists, 8, 9, 96, 97
Gabon, 507, 514, 517, 531
Gadafy, Colonel Muammar, 532, 534, 538, 667, 688, 707, 742, 752
Gagarin, Yuri, 629
Galbraith, J.K., 240, 613
Galen, Bishop Count, 413
Galicia, 37, 39
Galileo, 1, 5
Gambia, 509
Gamelin, General Maurice, 354, 363, 364, 365
Gandhi, Indira, 568–71, 715
Gandhi, Mahatma, 42, 470–2, 474; passive resistance, 44, 45, 149
Gandhi, Rajiv, 715
Gandhi, Sanjay, 570
Garment, Leonard, 690
Garvín, J.L., 162
gas chambers, 415
Gasperi, Alcide de, 577–9
Gauleiters, 290
Gemlin, Otto, 118
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 764
General Electric, 402, 660
General Motors, 238
General Strike (1926), 164, 165
genetics, 778–80
Geneva Accords (1954), 632, 633
Genoa Conference (1922), 235
genocide, 71, 304, 382, 384, 413–22, 430–1, 482, 499–500, 536, 537
Genyosha secret society, 183
Georgia (USSR), 765
Gerhardsen, Einar, 604
German Workers’ Party (later National Socialist Party, q.v.), 133
Germany: wartime expansion of role of state, 15–16; war socialism, 16, 89–90, 277, 401; youth movements, 18; peace settlement, 23–8, 105–6, 108; ‘war guilt’, 24, 106–8; reparations, 36, 134, 139; military assistance to Bolsheviks, 76; Marxist risings, 94–5; last months and defeat in First World War, 104–8; a republic, 104, 105, 109; territorial losses, 106; pre-war aggressive policy, 106–7; ‘stab in the back’ myth, 108–9, 111, 126, 342; Weimar constitution, 109–11, 123, 127, 281; divided parliament, 110–11; East-West division, 111–12, 114, 115, 117, 122, 123, 124, 125–8, 133, 135, 144, 280; cultural life, 112–17; anti-Semitism, 116–22, 127, 128, 133, 278, 292–3, 319, 342–3; totalitarian drift, 122–3, 126–7, 278–80; abortive Left risings, 123–4; army
putsch, 124, 125; growth of political
violence, 125, 127; politicizing of academic life, 125–6; nationalism, 126–7, 130–1; student violence, 127; currency collapse, 134–5, 141; economic recovery, 136; revival as superpower, 139–40; rise of Nazis, 278–85; increasing violence, 278–9, 282; Weimar economy, 280–1; end of Weimar Republic, 283; creation of totalitarian state as Third Reich, 284–91, 295–6; as police state, 286–90; terror regime, 286–90, 296–9; lawlessness, 289-90; internal battles, 290–1, 292; inconsistent policies, 292–4; big business, 293–4; economy, 294–5; rearmament, 294, 297, 312, 341, 346, 351, 352, 357, 400; persecution of intelligentsia, 305–6; and Spanish civil war, 329; progress to war, 341–6, 351–62; alliances, 352, 358–62; Germany
(contd)
seizure of Austria and Czechoslovakia, 352–5; lack of popular will for war, 356; and Second World War, 362–4, 372–82, 386, 399–401, 403–7, 409–22; invasion of Russia, 372–80, 382; mass-bombing of, 403–5; V1, V2 offensive, 405–6; extermination of Jews, 413–22; retribution problem, 422; Social Democrats, 745; reunification, 763