Read Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties Online
Authors: Paul Johnson
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Germany, East, 582, 586, 759–60, 763
Germany, West, 580–6
Gero, Ernö, 334
Gershwin, George, 227
Gesamtkunstwerk
, 113
Gestapo, 284, 286, 290, 297, 301, 303, 346, 353, 373
Gestapu
, 480
Ghana, 511–13, 517, 518, 531, 541, 542, 727
Ghori, Emile, 481
Gibson, Wilfrid, 163
Gide, André, 8, 337, 580, 593
Gingembre, Léon, 592
Giolitti Giovanni, 99
Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, 532, 692
Gisevius, Hans, 288, 298
Glasgow riots (1919), 38
glasnost
, 755
Globke, Dr Hans, 290, 585
Goebbels, Joseph, 278, 283, 284, 290, 291, 293, 319, 321, 341, 379, 405, 412
Goering, Hermann, 282, 283, 284–5, 286, 289, 290, 291, 297, 298, 321, 376, 405, 414
Gold, Harry, 458
Gold Coast (now Ghana), 511
gold standard, 164, 235–6
Goldstein Moritz, 121
Goldwater, Barry, 634, 651
Gollancz, Victor, 336, 421
Golos, Jacob, 458
Gombös, Julius, 95
Gonzalez, Felipe, 746
‘Good Neighbour’ policy, 616
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 720, 755–7, 759, 765–8
Gorenev, General Wilhelm, 109
Gorky, Maxim, 50, 51, 88, 242, 306
Gorshkov, Admiral, 683–4
Gosplan, 94
Government of India Act (1935), 469, 470
Goya, Francisco José de, 339
Gramsci, Antonio, 97, 213
Granada, 328
Grant, Duncan, 29
Grant, Madesan, 203, 206
Grau San Martin, Ramón, 619, 620, 623
Graves, Robert, 163
Grayson, Admiral Gary, 33
Great Crash, 231, 240–1
Great Depression, 40, 231, 232, 240–1, 243– 54, 277, 295, 344, 671
Great Leap, 545, 550–2
Great Society, 17, 639, 643, 658
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
, 454
Great Terror, 300–8, 335, 412
Great War -
see
First World War
Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, 187, 389
Greece, 439, 610–12; German occupation, 374; murdered Jews from, 415; civil war, 434, 611; Marshall Aid to, 440; social and economic progress, 611–12
Greene, Felix, 544, 545
Greenglass, David, 458
Greenham Common, 753
greenhouse effect, 774–5
Grenada, 751–2
Grenfell, Julian, 19, 162
Grew, Joseph, 314, 388, 389, 393
Grey, Rev. Herbert, 350
Griffith, D.W., 203
Gromyko, Andrei, 674
Gropius, Walter, 113
Grosz, George, 112, 115
Group Areas Act (South Africa, 1950), 523
Groves, General Leslie, 408, 425
Gruber, Ruth, 483
Guadalcanal, 402, 410, 423
Guderian, General Heinz, 378
Guernica, 335–6
Guertner, Franz, 289
Guevara, Che, 622, 627
guilt-feelings, 11, 41, 165, 691, 692
Guinea, 507, 532, 541
Gujarat, 569
Gulag Archipelago, 69, 300, 385, 452, 519
Gulf War, Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 733, 768–74
Haber, Fritz, 294
Haganah, 482, 483, 485, 487
Haggerty, Jim, 461, 462
Haile Selassie, 539
Haldane, J.B.S., 348
Haldeman, Bob, 651, 652
Haider, General Franz, 375, 379
Halsey, Admiral William F., 398
Hamaguchi, Yuko, 185, 186
Hamburg, 112; air raids on, 403
Hamilton, W.D., 779
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 493–5, 514, 515–16, 536, 537, 666, 689
Hammerstein, Oscar, 227
Hamouda, Ait, 497
Hanfstaengel, Ernst, 137
Hankey, Sir Maurice, 31, 41
Hankow, 195
Hara, Takashi, 183, 185
Harburg, E.Y., 227
Hardallah, David, 541, 542
Harden, Maximilian, 116, 125
Harding, Warren, 34, 204, 214–19, 234, 241, 258
Harrer, Karl, 124
Harriman, Averell, 435, 436
Harriman, Henry, 249
Harrington, Michael, 638
Harrod, Roy, 169
Hart, Lorenz, 227
Harvey, Oliver, 385
Hashimoto, General Gun, 316
Hatch Act (US, 1939), 457
Hauptmann, Gerhart, 113
Havel, Vaclav, 715, 760
Hawke, Bob, 746
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 226
Hawtrey, Sir Ralph, 235, 237
Hayek, F.A., 237
Hays, Will, 204
Heidegger, Martin, 143, 306, 576, 577
Heimwehren
, 95
Held, Heinrich, 288
Helms, Richard, 625
Helsinki Accords (1975), 673, 680
Hemingway, Ernest, 226, 327, 337
Henderson, Arthur, 309
Hermes, Andreas, 581
Hernández, Jesús, 333
Herriot, Edouard, 139
Herstalt Bank, 669
Herter, Christian, 27
Herzen Alexander, 677
Hess, Rudolf, 288, 290
Hewart, Sir Gordon, 162
Heydrich, Reinhard, 287, 292, 298, 375, 414
Hilferding, Rudolf, 153
Hiller, Kurt, 8
Himmler, Heinrich, 287–8, 292, 296, 297–8, 304, 321, 414, 416, 418, 419, 421, 481
Hindenburg, Field Marshal Paul von, 110, 111, 281, 283, 284, 291, 297, 299
Hintze, Admiral Paul von, 72
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 176, 185, 388, 390–1, 402, 425, 426
Hiroshima, 409, 425–6
Hiss, Alger, 257, 458
historical determinism, 54, 129, 435, 695
Hitler, Adolf: shock at 1918 defeat, 104; anti-Semitism, 122, 132–3, 278, 292, 305, 342–3, 348; compared with Lenin, 128–31; belief in race as revolutionary principle, 129, 342; romantic-artistic approach, 129–32, 284, 546; oratorical style, 131–2; political education, 132–3; belief in eastward expansion, 133, 136, 287, 357, 381–2; creation of National Socialist Party, 133–4; attempt to take over Bavaria, 135; imprisonment in Landsberg, 135–7; release, 277; as authoritarian leader, 278, 279; support from academics and business, 281; underestimated by Left and Right, 281–2; Chancellor, 283; setting up of totalitarian state, 284–92, 295–6; eastern extermination and settlement policy, 287, 305, 342–3, 380–2, 413–15, 416, 418–19, 522; inconsistent domestic policies, 292–3; lack of economic policy, 293, 294; decision to rearm, 293, 294–5; attitude to business and industry, 293—4; destruction of
SA
leadership, 296–9, 319; sole master of Germany, 299; as enemy of intelligentsia, 306–6; admirers of, 306; remilitarization of Rhineland, 320, 349, 351–2; admiration for Mussolini, 321; denounces treaty with Poland, 338, 357; programme for world domination, 341–4, 375; race-theory, 342–3, 522; derides Roosevelt’s proposal for non-aggression guarantees, 345, 358; rearmament, 346, 351, 352, 357; apologists for, 349; faultless conduct of foreign and military policy, 350–6; takes over army, 352; invades Austria, 353; plans invasion of Czechoslovakia, 353–5; Munich triumph, 355; misinterprets Franco-British attitude, 357; preparations for Polish dismemberment, 357–62; wish to avoid war of attrition, 358; ‘gangster’ pans with Mussolini and Stalin, 358–62; outbreak of war, 362; as Generalissimo, 362—4; conquest of France, 364–6; failure to understand British determination, 366–7; drawn into Mediterranean war, 373–4; Russian campaign, 375–80, 384, 385; mismanagement of campaign, 378–9; lost control of war, 386; declares war on US, 386–7; use of ballistic missiles, 405–6, 409; decision to fight to finish, 410–15; bunker existence and death, 412–13
Hitler’s Secret Book
, 342
Ho Chi Minh, 149, 476, 631, 632
Ho Ying-chin, General, 316
Hobson, J.A., 152–3, 167
Hocksckulring
movement, 127
Hoess, Rudolf, 296, 414, 415, 416
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 204
Home Owners’ Loan Act (US, 1932), 255
homosexuality, 782
Honecker, Erich, 759–60
Hong Kong, 729–30, 735
Hook, Sidney, 252
Hoover, Herbert, 16, 214, 215, 216, 232, 235, 238, 310, 651; and post-war relief, 93, 242; financial and economic policy, 234, 244–6, 256; as Wonder Boy, 229, 242, 243; misrepresentation of, 241, 243–4, 250; contrast with Roosevelt, 251-4, 256
Hopkins, Harry, 257, 392, 433
Houphouét-Boigny, Félix, 150, 527
House, Colonel Edward, 23, 24, 27, 105
House, Un-American Activities Committee, 643, 647
Howard, Leslie, 398
Hsing Chung Hui, 191
Hsuchow, 446
Hua Kuo-Feng, 563–4, 565
Huberman, Leo, 628
Hugenberg, Alfred, 116, 281, 282, 283, 286
Hughes, Charles Evans, 215
Hughes, W.M., 173
Hull, Cordell, 345, 370, 371, 392, 394
Human Rights, Declaration on (1945), 520
‘human rights’ policy, 520, 671, 680
Humphrey, Hubert, 257
‘hundred flowers’ campaign, 549, 556
Hungary, 37, 39, 242, 373; national socialism in, 95; murdered Jews from, 415, 421; Communist dictatorship, 434, 437; Soviet invasion, 475, 494; market system, 727; end of Communist rule, 759, 763
Hunter, Lord, 46
Hurgronje, C. Snouck, 478
Hussein, Saddam, 713–15, 769, 772, 773–4
Husseini, Mohammed Amin al-(Grand Mufti of Jerusalem), 477, 481, 485–6, 497
Hussong, Friedrich, 115
Hutten, Ulrich von, 305
Huxley, Aldous, 8, 168, 350
Huxley, Julian, 276
Hyderabad, 474
Ibarruri, Dolores, 325
Ibn Saud, 484
Ickes, Harold, 392, 402
Ikki, Kita, 184
Immigration Act (US, 1921), 215
Immorality Act (South Africa, 1949), 523
Imperial Rule Assistance Association, 390
imperialism, 40–8, 153–62; conspiracy theory of, 153, 154–5; as result of under- consumption, 152–3; American, alleged, 690, 693–4; British, 346–7, 468–70, 473; French, 148–51, 154; Japanese, 173, 186–9; Soviet, 76–7, 720–2
independence -
see
decolonization; self-determination
India, 41–2, 474–6; Montagu reforms, 42, 45, 346, 469, 510; aim of self-government, 42, 347, 510; Punjab riots, 44, 45–7; industry, 157; decadence and disturbance, 346–7; progress to independence, 469–74; Gandhiism, 470–2; partition, 473–4, 567; post-independence problems, 568–74; war with Pakistan, 569; corruption, 570, 571; population, 572, 724; police atrocities, 572; economy, 573, 725; nuclear power, 686; religious extremism, 707
Indian Independence Act (1947), 470
‘Indian National Army’, 469
‘indicative planning’, 587, 591
Indo-China, 149, 154, 391, 590; war, 631–7, 651, 654; Communist social engineering, 654–7
Indonesia, 478–80, 671, 727, 736
Indus trial Conciliation Act (South Africa, 1925), 521
Industrial Relations Act (1971), 602
Industrial Workers of the World, 216
inflation, 35, 233, 234, 236–8; American, 233, 236–8, 660–1, 664; British, 603; Chilean, 737; Chinese, 445–6; French, 141, 142; German, 134, 136; Russian, 93
intellectual life, 6, 8–10, 698; British, 166–72; French, 142–3, 575–7; German, 112–16
Inter-Allied Commission of Control, 139
inter-tribal racism, 527–8, 534
international brigades, 330
International Military Tribunal (1945), 427–8
International Monetary Fund, 603, 659
international money system, 281, 659, 660, 663–5
International Peace Campaign (Brussels, 1937), 337
‘International War Crimes tribunal’ (Stockholm, 1967), 635
interventionism, economic, 234–5, 244, 245–7, 251, 254–7
Inukai, Ki Tsuyoshi, 185, 186
Invergordon mutiny (1931), 310
investment, and colonialism, 152–3, 154, 155, 514
investment-trusting, 239
IRA
(Irish Republican Army), 688, 715
Iran, 418, 665, 673; in ‘northern tier’, 489; overthrow of Shah, 710–13; Khomeini’s rule, 713, 716–17; war with Iraq, 713–14, 772; agriculture, 727
Iraq, 43, 713; nuclear weapons, 686, 714; war with Iran, 713–14, 772; Saddam Hussein’s rule, 713–15; growing threat from, 716; agriculture, 727; Gulf War, 768–74
Irgun, 482, 483, 486
Ishihara, Lieut.-Colonel Kanji, 202
Islam, Muslims, 706–8, 709, 710, 713, 716–17, 720
Israel: creation of, 484–5; conflict with Arabs, 485–7, 489, 491–2, 494, 666; and Suez crisis, 491–2, 494; six-day war with Egypt, 666, 684; Syrian-Egyptian attack on, 668; Yom Kippur War, 668; as nuclear power, 686, 687; destroys Iraqi reactor, 686, 714; ‘racist’, 690; ultra-Orthodoxy in, 707; peace with Egypt, 708, 709; immigration, 709; invasion of Lebanon, 709–10; and Gulf War, 772
Itagaki, Seishiro, 202, 468
Italy, 35, 56–8; Fascism in, 96–7, 98–9, 319; socialist attempt to take over state, 97–8; violence, 98–9; Fascist take-over, 90–100, 101; renaissance, 103; collaboration with Germany, 319–21; invasion of Abyssinia, Italy 320–1, 351; ‘Pact of Steel’, 359; defeat in Second World War, 410; post-war, 577, 579
Ito, Prince, 176, 179, 182, 185
Ivory Coast, 507, 514, 527, 542, 727
Iwalcuro, Colonel, 389
Iwojima, 423
James, David, 185, 427
James, Henry, 226, 240
Jameson, Storm, 350
Janata Party, 569, 571
JAP
(Juventudes de Acción Popular), 324
Japan, 14, 21, 398; naval power, 172–3, 174; alliance with Britain, 173–4, 175, 188; entry into modern world, 176–8; national attributes, 178; revolutionary progress, 178–9; weaknesses due to archaism, 179-82; lack of system of fixed law, 179–80; and moral relativism, 180, 181; state religion and ruling morality, 180–1; introduction of Western political institutions, 181–4; bastard feudalism, 182; totalitarianism, 183, 311–12, 317–18, 427; corruption, 183; secret societies, 183–5; political assassination, 184, 185–6; failure of constitutional government, 186–7; aim of territorial expansion, 186–90; attack and demands on China, 187, 190, 201–2; ending of alliance with Britain, 188; leaves League, 310; rejection of rule of law, 312; occupation of Manchuria, 310, 311, 313; warring factions, 313–14; attempted military coup, 314–15; disastrous war with China, 315–16, 318, 388; military control of policy, 317–18; atrocities, 318; attack on America, and Pacific War, 386–97, 422–7; calamitous defeats, 396, 410, 423-4; irrational strategy, 423; Allied mass bombing of, 424, 425; atomic bombing of, 425–6, 429; surrender, 426–7; prisoner-of-war camps, 427–8; trial of war criminals, 428–9; occupation, 447, 719; reversal of US policy towards, 447; unlikely to join nuclear club, 686; population, 723, post-war reconstruction, 729–35, 736; investment in Britain, 732–3; privatization, 745; investment in America, 749