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and Persian Gulf,
71
–73,
78
,
82
–85,
89
,
305
–306

and Republic of China,
57
–58,
132

terrorism of,
37
–38,
41

totalitarianism,
236
,
307

trade with U.S.,
207
–209

World War II,
17
–19,
62
,
66
,
73
,
235

and “World War III,”
22
–23,
44
–45,
166
,
215
,
280
,
297
,
298

See also
Imperial Russia; Muscovite Russia

Stalin, Joseph,
14
,
17
,
18
,
19
,
23
,
47
,
54
,
55
,
56
,
60
–64
passim,
66
,
73
,
166
,
204
,
234
,
235
,
236
,
240
,
241
,
248

Standard Oil,
72
;
see also
Exxon

State Department:
see
U.S. Department of State Steffens, Lincoln,
8

Stennis, John,
189

Straits of Hormuz,
24
,
83
,
88
,
89
,
196

Straits of Malacca,
196

Strategic Alternatives Team,
176

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT),
174
–75,
183
,
200
,
268

Jackson Amendment,
153
,
159

SALT I,
153
,
158
,
167
–70,
171
,
173
,
259
,
268

SALT II,
160
,
165
,
169
,
171
–73,
192

Sudan,
215
,
302

Suez Canal,
78
,
196

Suez crisis (1956),
78
–79,
93
,
254
–55,
283

Sunnis:
see
Islam

Sun Tzu,
105
,
162
,
300

Sun Yat-sen,
57
,
131
,
132

Sun Yat-sen, Madame,
132

Sweden,
53
,
261

Switzerland,
261

Syria,
86
,
186

Szamuely, Tibor,
51

Taiwan:
see
Republic of China Taraki, Noor Mohammed,
10
,
11

Taylor, Maxwell,
100

Tehran Conference,
18

Teller, Edward,
225
,
230

Terrorism,
37
–41,
86
–87

Thailand,
124

Thatcher, Margaret,
216

Thieu, Nguyen Van,
104
,
114
,
118
,
119
,
124
,
239
,
245

Third World,
97
,
189
,
198
,
215
,
277
,
298
–99,
301
,
303
,
305
–310

nationalism in,
97

“Third World War”:
see
“World War III”

Thompson, Robert,
6
,
43
,
89
,
96
,
97
,
100
,
102
,
107
,
112
,
228
,
306

Tibet,
65

Tito, Josip Broz,
39

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
46
,
50
,
70
,
126

Tolstoy, Leo,
47
,
49
,
59

Tower, John,
175

Treaty of Peking (1860),
57

Trotsky, Leon,
233

Truman, Harry S.,
47
,
73
,
74
,
82
,
248
,
254
,
279

Truman Doctrine,
66
,
74
,
281

Turkey,
47
,
53
,
66
,
73
,
74
,
78
,
82
,
89
,
186
,
213
–14,
283

Turkmenistan,
90

Uganda,
241

Ukraine,
22
,
61

Ulyanov, Alexander,
59
,
60

Ulyanov, Vladimir:
see
Lenin, V. I.

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR):
see
Soviet Union

UNITA:
see
National Union of Angola

United Arab Emirates,
75
,
83
,
85
,
87

United Nations,
44
,
69
,
283

Korean War and,
98
,
192

United States (U.S.) arms sales,
197
–98

Cambodia and,
107
–11

Constitution of,
43

economy of,
14
,
203
,
215
,
216
–21,
300
,
305

energy policy,
221
–26

inflation in,
217
–21

isolationism of,
66
,
67
,
69

Israel and,
92
–93

military capability,
2
,
12
,
16
,
49
,
151
–166
passim,
180
,
228

oil and,
23
,
72
,
74
,
80
,
187
–88

People's Republic of China and,
2
,
112
,
134
,
136
–43
passim,
146
–49,
211
–12,
260
,
283
,
284
,
285
,
302
–303

space program,
314

trade with Soviet Union,
207
–209

World War II,
65
–68,
104
,
206

and “World War III,”
22
–23,
166
,
206
,
215
,
242
,
279
,
311
–12

U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,
156

U.S. Congress,
40
,
111
,
116
,
117
,
167
,
219

and energy policy,
222

and inflation,
219

and Vietnam War,
111
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
119
,
123

U.S. Constitution,
43

U.S. Department of Defense,
262

U.S. Department of Energy,
224

U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare,
217

U.S. Department of State,
68
,
147
,
177

U.S. Presidency:
see
Presidency

Uruguay,
34

Utgoff, Victor,
150

Van Cleave, William,
176

Venezuela,
36
,
38
,
80

Victoria, Queen,
68

Vienna Summit (1961),
255

Vietcong,
39
,
40
,
107
,
108
,
109

Vietnam,
2
,
12
,
21
,
96
,
111
,
146
,
203
,
214
,
240
,
241
,
245

boat people of,
14
,
21
,
111
,
121

Buddhists in,
102
,
103

1954 partition of,
99
,
100

post-World War II,
98
–99

Vietnam War,
2
,
8
,
19
,
39
–40,
45
,
82
,
96
–97,
104
–105,
120
–24,
238
,
258
,
284
,
301

Americanization of,
105
,
106

Cambodia in,
108
–11

in early 1960s,
100
–104,
109

1965 U.S. bombing in North,
104

1968 Tet offensive,
115

1969 U.S. bombing in Cambodia,
108
–11

1972 U.S. mining of Haiphong Harbor,
112
–13,
116

1972 Paris peace conference,
113

1973 Paris peace agreement,
113
–14,
116
,
117
,
118
–19,
124

RN and,
97
,
106
–109,
113

People's Republic of China and,
112
–13,
138
,
304

Soviet Union and,
96
,
112
,
117
,
118

U.S. press and,
102
–103,
115
,
244

U.S. Congress and,
111
,
116
,
117
,
244

Vietnamization of,
106
–107,
109
,
110

Wall Street Journal,
276
–77

Walters, Vernon G.,
257

Warsaw Pact,
179
,
180
,
183
,
184
,
185
,
200

Washington, George,
237

Watergate,
8
,
116
,
117
,
123

Weidenbaum, Murray L.,
217

Western Europe,
14
,
33
,
81
,
90
–91,
94
,
152
,
176
–78,
179
,
180
,
184
,
187
,
308

and Africa,
27
–29

Communist parties of,
308

economies of,
14
,
178

and “World War III,”
22
–23

West Germany,
39
,
40
,
164
,
203
,
280
,
304

economy,
203

Wilson, Arnold,
71

Wilson, Harold,
270
,
273

Wilson, Woodrow,
15
,
21
,
253
,
265
,
312

“Windfall profits” tax,
224

Wolfe, Bertram,
59

World Bank,
214

World War I,
15
,
60
,
65
,
68
,
73
,
245
,
246
,
269

World War II,
14
,
16
,
47
,
65
,
66
–69,
73
,
98
,
204
,
245
,
246
,
269
,
304
,
307

and genesis of “World War III,”
17
–19

“World War III”

Africa and,
23
–25

and communism,
21

defined,
17
,
37

economic strength and,
202
,
212
,
215

issues of,
19
–20

origins of,
17
–19

Soviet aims in,
22
–23,
43
–15,
166
,
205
,
215
,
280
,
297
,
298

U.S. and,
22
–23,
116
,
206
,
215
,
229
,
242
,
244
,
279
,
295
–99,
311
–12

Vietnam War and,
96
,
244
–45

Xiaoping:
see
Deng Xiaoping

Yalta Conference,
18
,
293

Yemen:
see
North Yemen; South Yemen

Yom Kippur War (1973),
12
,
80
,
84
,
93
,
180
,
187
,
256
,
265

Young, Andrew,
121
–22,
239

Yugoslavia,
19
,
209

Zahedi, Ardeshir,
78

Zahedi, Fazollah,
78
,
272

Zaire,
29
,
30

Shaba province,
29

Zanzibar,
88

Zhou Enlai,
127
,
132
,
136
–37,
259
,
291

Zimbabwe Rhodesia,
29
,
30
,
32