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Poincaré, Raymond

Poland; anti-communism in; vs. Czechoslovakia; and Hitler; postwar borders of; revolt in; Solidarity movement; Soviet control in; strong currency of; war casualties; Warsaw uprising; and World War I; and Yalta Declaration

Polk, James Knox; as capable president; and central banking; and Mexico; and Oregon

Polk Doctrine

Pol Pot

Pompidou, Georges

Poos, Jacques

Pope, John

Populist Party; and Bryan; on gold standard; on Philippines

Portugal: in EU; as imperial power; and NATO; vs. Spain; in World War I; and World War II

Powell, Colin L.

Prevost, George

Princip, Gavrilo

Progressive Citizens of America

Progressive Party; isolationism of

Progressive Republicans

Prohibition; and Hoover; Roosevelt repeal

Prohibitionists

Prussia: and Bismarck; and Franco-Prussian War; and French Revolution, 100; as Great Power; in Holy Alliance; Napoleon’s defeat of; in Seven Years’ War;
see also
Bismarck, Otto von

Pueblo,
USS

Puerto Rico

Pulitzer, Joseph E.

Putin, Vladimir

Qaeda, al-

Quakers

Quayle, J. Danforth

Quezon, Manuel

Rabin, Yitzhak

Radford, Arthur

Radical Republicans

Radio Free Europe

Raines, Claude

Ramsay, Sir Bertram

Randolph, Edmund; and Burr trial

Randolph, John

Rayburn, Sam; and FDR; and Kennedy staff; on MacArthur; power of

Reagan, Ronald; achievement of; as actor; arms buildup; on arms control; assassination attempt on; Berlin Wall speech; and economy; election of; vs. Ford; and Gorbachev; as governor; and Grenada; and Iran-Contra scandal; and Lebanon; and Nicaragua; power displays; and Saudi Arabia; and SDI (missile defense); on Soviet espionage; and student radicals; tax reduction; and Thatcher; on welfare

Reconstruction; and carpetbaggers

Reconstruction Acts

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Red Scare; espionage arrests; McCarthy; and Yellow Peril

Rehnquist, William

Reid, Whitelaw

Relief and Construction Act

Republican Party: anti-slavery origins; divisions in; in FDR administration; Frémont nomination; on gold standard; and Goldwater; and LBJ; Lincoln election; on New Deal; and pure capitalism; Radical faction; and Reagan; on T. Roosevelt; winning streaks; on world peace

Reston, James

Reuther, Walter

Revere, Paul

Reynaud, Paul

Reynolds, Maria

Reynolds, William

Rhee, Syngman

Ribbentrop, Joachim von

Rice, Condoleezza

Richardson, Elliott

Richardson, J.O.

Richardson, WA.

Rickover, Hyman

Ridgway, Matthew B.

Robertson, James

Robertson, William

Robinson, Joseph T.

Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste, Count de

Rockefeller, John D.

Rockefeller, Nelson A.; as vice president

Rockingham, Charles Wentworth, Marquis of

Rodney, Sir George (Admiral)

Rogers, William P

Romania: Ceausescu execution; de Gaulle in; vs. Germany; and Hitler; Nixon in; and Stalin

Rommel, Erwin

Romney, George

Romney, W Mitt

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.; on appeasement; as aristocratic; on “arsenal of democracy,” banking measures; at Cairo Conference; and
Casablanca
; and Catholics; and Chamberlain; and Churchill; as “conjuror,” Court-packing scheme; death of; defense buildup; and de Gaulle; as dissembler; elections of; fireside chats; on Four Freedoms; on France; and George VI, G.I. Bill of Rights; Good Neighbor policy; health condition; on Hitler; Hitler’s ridicule of; on Hoovervilles; “hundred days,” on India; “infamy” speech; and isolationists; and Japan embargo; and Jewish refugees; and Latin America; Lend-Lease; lessons from predecessors; in Navy department; “New Deal,” as New York governor; on occupation zones; party purge effort; and Pearl Harbor; and polio; postwar vision; Smith nomination; on Somoza; on Stalin; undeclared war of; as vice presidential nominee; and Vichy regime; war mobilization

Roosevelt, Kermit

Roosevelt, Theodore; Amazon travel; assassination attempt on; belligerence of; character of; as conservationist; in Cuba (Rough Riders); death of; domestic reform agenda; European travel; and financial panic (1907); Japan–Russia mediation; on Lincoln; on Louisiana Purchase; Medal of Honor; Monroe Doctrine redefinition; on Morocco; and naval construction; “New Nationalism,” as New York governor; Nobel Peace Prize; on Paine; and Panama Canal; Philippine Government Act; and Preparedness Movement; racial tolerance of; in Spanish-American War; “Square Deal” anti-trust policy; vs. Taft; as vice president; on War of 1812; on Wilson; and World War I

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.

Root, Elihu; and naval disarmament; on world court; and World War I

Root-Takahira Agreement

Rosecrans, William

Rosenberg, Ethel

Rosenberg, Julius

Rostow, Walt Whitman

Rough Riders

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Ruckelshaus, William

Rumsfeld, Donald

Rundstedt, Gerd von

Rush, Richard

Rush-Bagot Agreement

Rusk, Dean; on MacArthur; as secretary of state; and Vietnam

Russell, John, Lord

Russell, Jonathan

Russell, Richard

Russia; and Alaska; arms limits; vs. Japan; in Pacific Northwest; post-Soviet elections; revolution in; in Seven Years’ War; and War of 1812;
see also
Soviet Union

Russian Republic: oligarchs; and Putin; and Yeltsin

Sackville-West, Sir Lionel

Sadat, Anwar; assassination of; and Camp David Accords

Sade, Marquis de

Safire, William

Said, Nuri as-

Sainteney, Jean

Sakharov, Andrei

Salan, Raoul

Salisbury, Robert-Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of

Samoa

Sandinistas

Santa Anna, Antonio López de

Saudi Arabia: and Eisenhower (Suez crisis); Khobar Towers attack; and Nixon; oil power of; and Reagan; Wahhabis inand Yom Kippur War

Saxony

Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley

Schlieffen, Alfred von

Schmidt, Helmut

Schurz, Carl

Schuschnigg, Kurt von

Schuyler, Philip

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Scopes trial

Scott, Dred

Scott, Hugh

Scott, Winfield: and Canada; in Mexican War; vs. South Carolina nullifiers; and Union Army; in War of 1812; as Whig candidate

Scowcroft, Brent

Securities and Exchange Commission

Sedition Act

segregation

Serbia: and Balkan wars; and World War I

Sergeant, John

Seven Years’ War; in America; British debt from; in Europe; and Franklin; French losses; and Louisbourg; and Louisiana Purchase; and maritime rights; Peace of Paris; and Quebec; and West Indies

Sevier, John

Sewall, Arthur

Seward, William Henry; Alaska acquisition; anti-slavery views; and Mexico; as presidential candidate; and Republicans; as secretary of state

Seymour, Horatio

Shamir, Yitzhak

Sharon, Ariel

Shays’ Rebellion

Shelburne, William Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of

Shelby, Isaac

Sheridan, Philip H.

Sherman, James Schoolcraft

Sherman, John

Sherman, Roger

Sherman, William Tecumseh; and Johnston surrender; in presidential race

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Shevardnadze, Edward

Shirley, William

Shriver, R. Sargeant

Shultz, George P

Sihanouk

Simon, Sir John

Simon, William

Sinatra, Frank

Sino-Japanese War (1894–96)

Sirica, John J.

Six-Day War

slavery: abolitionism; as Achilles’ heel;
Amistad
mutiny; and Britain; and California statehood; Compromise of 1850; Congo trade abolished; congressional debate on; Constitution compromise on;
Creole
mutiny; and
Dred Scott
; economics of; emancipation; Fugitive Slave Act; Harper’s Ferry; hypocrisy on; Jackson policy; and Jefferson; Kansas dispute; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Lincoln-Douglas debates; Missouri Compromise; Nat Turner’s rebellion; and secessionism; and Texas; and Unionism; and Washington; Wilmot Proviso on;
see also
Civil War

Slidell, John

Smith, Alfred E.

Smith, Robert

Smith, Samuel

Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Smyth, Alexander

Snow, Edgar

Social Democrats

Social Security