Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America From Colonial Dependence to World Leadership (135 page)
Authors: Conrad Black
BOOK: Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America From Colonial Dependence to World Leadership
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Karzai, Hamid
Kearney, Stephen W
Kefauver, Estes
Kellogg, Frank B.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Kelly, John
Kemp, Jack
Kendall, Amos
Kennan, George F.; containment strategy; “long telegram,” and Marshall Plan
Kennedy, Edward M.
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Kennedy, John F.; assassination of; and Bay of Pigs; “bear any burden” speech; Berlin speech; and civil rights; and Cuban missile crisis; and de Gaulle; election of; glamorous friends of; health issues; and Khrushchev; and Latin America; moon program; New Frontier; nuclear test ban; Peace Corps; on taxes; and Vietnam
Kennedy, Joseph P.; as ambassador; FDR endorsement; on Securities & Exchange Commission
Kennedy, Robert F.; assassination of; from hawk to dove; and Nixon; presidential campaign
Kenya
Kerensky, Alexander
Kern, John F.
Kerry, John
Key, Francis Scott
Key, Joseph
Keynes, John Maynard, Lord
Khomeini, Ruhollah, Ayatollah
Khrushchev, Nikita; on Bay of Pigs; on Berlin; and Cuban missile crisis; sacking of; triumphalism of; U.S. visit; and U-2 fiasco
Kim II Sung
Kim Jong Il
Kimmel, Husband E.
King, Ernest J.
King, Martin Luther
King, Rufus
King, WL. Mackenzie
King, William R.
Kissinger, Henry A.; in China; in Moscow; Nixon eulogy; Paris talks; public career end; and Sinai agreement; Vietnam hopes; on Watergate; and Yom Kippur War
Kleindienst, Richard
Knowland, William; on China; Eisenhower’s disdain for; on German sovereignty
Know-Nothings
Knox, Frank
Knox, Henry
Knox, Philander C.
Kohl, Helmut; and German reunification
Korea; division of;
see also
North Korea; South Korea
see also
North Korea; South Korea
Korean War; and atom-bomb question; casualties of ; and China; end of; Inchon landing; public support for; and Russia
Kosciusko, Tadeusz
Kosovo
Kossuth, Louis
Kosygin, Alexei
Kristallnacht
Ku Klux Klan
Kuwait
labor unions; strikes by; and Taft-Hartley
Lafayette, Marquis de
La Follette, Robert M.; isolationism of; as presidential candidate
La Guardia, Fiorello H.
Laird, Melvin R.
Lamar, Mirabeau
Landon, Alfred M.
Lane, Joseph
Laniel, Joseph
Lansdale, Edward
Lansing, Robert; firing of; on German naval attacks; on Japan in China; nephew of
Laos
Latin America; British in; Jewish refugees in; mediation in; Monroe Doctrine on; Panama Conference; and Pan-American Union; Roosevelt policy on;
see also
Central America; Cuba; Mexico
see also
Central America; Cuba; Mexico
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
Lausanne Conference
Laval, Pierre
Lawrence, James
League of Nations; German withdrawal from; Haile Selassie at; on Japanese aggression; opposition to; successor to; in Treaty of Versailles
Leahy, William
Lebanon; Hezbollah in; hostages in; Marine barracks bombing
Le Duc Tho
Lee, Charles
Lee, Harry
Lee, Henry
Lee, Richard Henry
Lee, Robert E.; as Confederate commander; and Harper’s Ferry; surrender of; Virginia loyalty
Leigh-Mallory, Sir Trafford
Le Marchand de Lignery, François-Marie
Lemke, William
Lend-Lease Act
Lenin.I.
Leopold II, Emperor
Lévis, François de
Lewis, Merriweather
Liberia
Liberty Bell
Liddy, G. Gordon
Lieberman, Joseph
Ligonier, John, Lord
Lilienthal, David E.
Liliuokakani, Queen
Lincoln, Abraham; assassination of; character of; and Civil War; as conciliatory; Douglas debates; Emancipation Proclamation; FDR comparison; and Fort Sumter; Gettysburg Address; orations of; political mastery; presidential campaigns; and Republicans; in Richmond; and Stanton; on “unrequired toil,”
Lincoln, Benjamin
Lincoln, Robert
Lindsay, Sir Ronald
Lin Piao
Lippmann, Walter
Little Big Horn
Litvinov, Maxim
Liverpool, Robert Jenkinson, Lord
Livingston, Edward
Livingston, Robert
Livingston, William
Lloyd George, David
Locke, John
Lodge, Henry Cabot; and Eisenhower; and naval disarmament; and Preparedness Movement; and Vietnam; vs. Wilson
Logan, John A.
London Economic Conference (1933)
Long, Huey P
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Longstreet, James
Longworth, Nicholas
Lon Nol
López, Narciso
Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of
Louis XIV, King
Louis XV, King
Louis XVI, King; and Franklin; and Revolution
Louis of Brunswick, Prince
Louisiana Purchase; and West Florida
Lovejoy, Elijah
Lovett, Robert
Luce, Henry R.
Lumumba, Patrice
Lusitania,
RMS
RMS
Lvov, Georgy
MacArthur, Arthur
MacArthur, Douglas; and Chiang Kai-shek; congressional hearings on; dismissal of; on draftee armies; FDRdistrust of; Inchon landing; insubordination; and Japanese surrender; as Japan’s governor; and Johnson’s war service; in Korean War; Medal of Honor; “no substitute for victory,” on nuclear weapons; and Philippines; popularity of; and Truman; on Vietnam
Macdonald, John A.
MacDonald, Ramsay
Mackenzie, Alexander
Mackenzie, William Lyon
MacLean, Donald
MacMillan, Harold; and U-2 fiasco
Macon, Nathaniel
Madero, Francisco
Madison, James; and Bank of the United States; and Barbary pirates; and Constitution; on debt; and embargo; on French Revolution; vs. Hamilton; on Jackson; and Louisiana Purchase; political skill of; presidency of; as presidential candidate; on slavery problem; on standing army; and suffrage; and trade policy; and War of 1812
Madrid Convention
Mafia
Magsaysay, Ramon
Mahan, Alfred Thayer
Maine,
USS
USS
Major, John
Manchuria: Japanese in; Russia vs. Japan on; USSR in
Manhattan Project
manifest destiny
Mann, A. Dudley
Mansfield, Mike
Manstein, Erich von
Mao Tse-tung; and civil war; death of; Great Leap Forward; and Korea; and Nasser; and Nixon; and Vietnam
Marcy, William L.: and Albany Regency; and “Hunkers,” in presidential race; as secretary of state; as secretary of war
Maria Theresa, Empress
Marie Antoinette
Marion, Francis
Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of
Marshall, George C.; on Berlin; vs. Brooke; and China; and Churchill; as Israel opponent; and Korean War; on MacArthur; McCarthy accusations; Overlord command; as secretary of state
Marshall, John; and Burr trial; as chief justice
Marshall, Thomas R
Marshall, Thurgood
Marshall Plan
Martin, Joe
Martinique
Masaryk, Jan
Mason, George
Mason, John
Massu, Jacques
Matsuoka, Yosuke
Mauriac, François
Maximilian, Archduke
May, Karl
Mayo, Henry T
Mazowiecki, Tadeusz
Mazzei, Philip
McAdoo, William Gibbs
McCain, John
McCarran Act
McCarthy, Eugene
McCarthy, Joseph R.; and Eisenhower
McClellan, George B.; firing of; as presidential candidate
McCullough, David
McDowell, Irwin
McDuffie, George
McElroy, Neil
McFarlane, Robert (Bud)
McGovern, George
McHenry, James
McIntyre, Thomas
McKinley, William; assassination of; and Cuba; Gold Standard Act; and Philippines; reelection
McKinley Tariff
McLane, Louis
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