Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America From Colonial Dependence to World Leadership (136 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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McNamara, Robert; on nuclearparity; retirement
McNary, Charles L.
Meade, George C.
Meany, George
Medicare
Meir, Golda
Melbourne, William Lamb, Lord
Mellon, Andrew
Mencken, H.L.
Mendès-France, Pierre
Menzies, Robert
Metternich, Clemens von
Mexican War
Mexico: and Alamo battle; Diaz overthrow; and FDR; French intervention in; illegal immigrants from; PRI dominance in; and Texas; turmoil in; and World War I
Midway Island: discovery of; in World War II
Mifflin, Thomas
Miller, William
Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, Count
Missouri,
USS
USS
Missouri Compromise; and
Dred Scott
; repeal of
Dred Scott
; repeal of
Mitchell, John P
Mitterrand, François
Miyazawa, Kiichi
Mollett, Guy
Molotov, Vyecheslav
Moltke, Helmuth von
Monckton, Robert
Mondale, Walter F.
Monde, Le
Monro, George
Monroe, James; and British embrace; and Canada border; and Constitution; as “co-president,” in France; and Hamilton; and Jefferson; in London; and Louisiana Purchase; and Missouri Compromise; presidency of; as secretary of war; and War of 1812
Monroe, Marilyn
Monroe Doctrine; and Lodge Corollary; and T. Roosevelt
Montcalm, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon, marquis de
Montgomery, Bernard L.; anti-Americanism of; on German partition
Morgan, Daniel
Morgan, J. Pierpont
Morgan, J. Pierpont, Jr.
Morgan, Ted
Morgenthau, Henry
Morocco
Morris, Gouverneur
Morris, Robert
Morse, Wayne
Morton, Levi P
Mossadegh, Mohammed
Mountbatten, Louis, Lord
Mozambique
Mubarak, Hosni
Mujibur Rahman
Mulroney, Brian
Mundelein, George Cardinal
Munoz Marin, Luis
Murdoch, Rupert
Murphy, Robert
Murray, James
Murray, William Vans
Musharraf, Pervez
Muskie, Edmund
Muslim Brotherhood
Mussolini; Albania invasion; Ethiopia invasion; execution of; Greece invasion; and Hitler; ouster of
Nagy, Imre
Napoleon I (Bonaparte); Berlin Decree; exile of; on Jefferson/Madison embargo; Leipzig defeat; and Louisiana Purchase; Prussian conquest; on Royal Navy; Waterloo
Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon Bonaparte)
Nasser, Gamal Abdel; death of; and Eisenhower Doctrine
Nasution, Abdul Haris
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Defense Act of 1916
National Republican Party
National Rifle Association
Native Americans.
See
Indians
See
Indians
Naturalization Act (1789)
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Nelson, Horatio
Netherlands: and Belgium; and Britain; capitalism in; in East Indies; and France; in Gulf War; individual rights in; loans from; in NATO; in Seven Years’ War; strong currency of; in World War II
Neutrality Acts
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of
New Deal; attacks on
New England Anti-Slavery League
New England Emigrant Aid Company
Newfoundland
New York Journal
New York Morning News
New York Times
New York World
Nicaragua: canal plan; Sandinistas vs. Contras; Somoza rule in
Nicholas II, Czar
Nimitz, Chester W; and casualty rates; Formosa plan; at Iwo Jima; Yamamoto shoot-down
Nitze, Paul
Nixon, Richard M.; and Acheson; on anti-missile defense; on arms control; and Brezhnev; on Bush; and Cambodia; Caracas attack; on Castro; Checkers speech; and Chile; and China; on Cuban missiles; death of; and de Gaulle; and desegregation; and Eisenhower; and EPA; and East Pakistan; foreign-policy expertise; governor run; and Hiss; House impeachment vote; on inflation (price controls); and Kent State shooting; and Kissinger; on Korea; landslide reelection; on McCarthy; and McGovern; memory; Middle East tour; and national parks; as ordinary man; pardon of; and Pentagon Papers; political maneuvering; as presidential candidate; press hostility to; resignation of; in Romania; and Sadat; on silent maj ority; and space program; on tax cuts; and Thieu; in USSR; as vice president; and Vietnam; and War Powers Resolution; and Watergate
Nixon Doctrine
Noriega, Manuel
Norstad, Lauris
North, Henry, Lord
North, Oliver
North American Free Trade Agreement
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); and de Gaulle; eastward expansion of; fragility of; and Germany; and Kosovo war; and Sept. 11 attacks
Northern Ireland
Northern Securities
North Korea: aggression by; and Carter; and Ford;
see also
Korean War
see also
Korean War
nuclear weapons; and China question; and Cuban missile crisis; de Gaulle on; Eisenhower on; Hiroshima & Nagasaki; hydrogen bomb; and Korean War; Manhattan Project; and Mutual Assured Destruction (parity); and Potsdam Conference; and Reykjavik talks; Soviet program; test bans
O’Connor, John
O’Connor, Sandra Day
O’Dwyer, William
O’Hara, Charles
O’Sullivan, John L.
Obama, Barack; on BP; and Libya; on Mossadegh; and racial guilt
Obregón, Alvaro
Olney, Richard
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Organization of African Unity
Organization of American States
Orlando, Vittorio
Ortega, Daniel
Orwell, George
Osgood, Samuel
Pace, Frank
Pacelli, Eugenio Cardinal
Page, Walter Hines
Pago Pago
Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza Shah; and Carter; and Nixon
Paine, Thomas
Pakenham, Sir Edward
Pakistan: and East Pakistan; and Nixon; and SEATO; and War on Terror
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Palestine Mandate
Palin, Sarah
Palmer, A. Mitchell
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Lord; on Civil War
Paluski, Casimir
Panama; and Noriega
Panama Canal; handover of; Suez comparison
Panama Canal Company
Pan-American Union
Panic of 1907
Papen, Franz von
Park Chung Hee
Parker, Alton B.
Parker, Dorothy
Paterson, William
Patton, George S.; and “Bonus March,” at Casablanca; and D-Day; at Messina; and Roosevelt; and Third Army
Paul VI, Pope
Pavlov, Vladimir
Pax Britannica
Peace Corps
Peale, Charles Wilson
Pearson, Drew
Pearson, Lester
Peel, Sir Robert
Pelham, Henry
Pendleton, George H.
Pendleton Act
People’s Party.
See
Populist Party
See
Populist Party
Pepper, Claude
Percival, Spencer
Peres, Shimon
Perkins, Frances
Permanent Court of International Arbitration
Perot, Ross
Perry, Matthew
Perry, Oliver Hazard
Pershing, John J.
Petacci, Clara
Pétain, Henri-Philippe
Peter I (the Great), Czar
Peter III, Czar
Pham Van Dong
Philadelphia,
USS
USS
Philby, Kim
Philippines: independence of; in Spanish-American War; and Taft Commission; U.S. occupation of; and World War II
Pickering, John
Pickering, Timothy
Pierce, Franklin; and Confederacy; in Mexican War
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery
Pinchot, Gifford
Pinckney, Charles
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth; as presidential candidate
Pinckney, Thomas
Pinochet, Augusto
Pitt, William (Earl of Chatham); and Churchill; expansive vision of; and George III vs. Newcastle; and Rockingham; in Seven Years’ War; sympathy for Americans
Pitt, William, the Younger
Pius IX, Pope
Pius XII, Pope
Platt, Thomas
Plowshare
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