military personnel
national interest of
and NATO, see NATO
Open Door policy of
and Pearl Harbor attack
and postwar Germany
public opinion shaped in academia
racial tensions in
and Soviet relations
and weapons of mass destruction
University of Chicago
Urban, George
USA and Canada Institute
U.S.S.R., see Soviet Union
Vandenberg, Arthur H.
Vandenberg, Hoyt
Varga, Yevgeny
Vassiltchikov, Marie
Vienna:
Anschluss in
Kennan’s assignment in
Sanatorium Gutenbrunn in
Vietnam War
antiwar protests
Vlasik, Nikolay
Vyshinsky, Andrey
Wallace, Henry A.
Walsh, Father Edmund A.
Warnke, Paul
Warsaw Pact
Washington Post, The
Wasson, R. Gordon
Watergate
Watson, Adam
Webb, James E.
Wedemeyer, Albert C.
Weeks, Edward A. “Ted,”
Wei, Fong
Weizmann, Chaim
Welles, Sumner
Wells, Grace (cousin)
Whitman, Walt
Whitney, Thomas P.
Wiley, John C.
Wilgress, Dana
Willett, Edward F.
Williams, William Appleman
Wilson, Woodrow
Wilson administration
Winant, John G.
Wisconsin
Wisner, Frank
Wolfe, Thomas
Wolfers, Arnold
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Woodward, Sir Llewellyn
Woolf, Harry
World War I
and Kennan’s early years
and Paris Peace Conference
World War II
allied success in
anniversaries of
and appeasement
Britain’s declaration of war
D-Day
destruction of
end of
German surrender in
Germany’s declaration of war against U.S.
Japanese surrender in
military life in
and Munich
Nazi takeovers in
onset of
Pearl Harbor attacked in
preliminaries to
strategic bombing capabilities of
U.S. entry into
U.S. neutrality in
U.S. productivity in
U.S. veterans returning home from
Wright, C. Ben
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Yakovlev, Nikolay Nikolayevich
Yale Review, The
Yale University
Yalta
Yasnaya Polyana (Tolstoy’s home)
Yepishev, Aleksey Alekseyevich
Yugoslavia
and Belgrade channel
Communist Party in
and Cuban missile crisis
Kennan as ambassador to
Kennan’s visit to
and Kennedy administration
and most-favored-nation status
Skopje earthquake
Tito in, see Tito, Josef Broz
Yusupov, Prince
Zapolskaya, Juli
Zhdanov, Andrey
Ziegler, Philip
Zionism
George Kennan (born February 16, 1845) in 1903 (CORBIS)
Kossuth Kent Kennan (Joan Kennan Collection)
Florence James Kennan (Eugene Hotchkiss Collection)
George Frost Kennan (born February 16, 1904) in 1904 (Joan Kennan Collection)
George and Jeanette (Joan Kennan Collection)
935 Cambridge Avenue, Milwaukee (Joan Kennan Collection)
Lake Nagawicka (Joan Kennan Collection)
George with bike, ca. 1916 (Joan Kennan Collection)
George as cadet, St. John’s Military Academy, 1917 (Joan Kennan Collection)
The Kennan Family, ca. 1918 (from left, Frances, Kent senior, George, Kent junior, Louise, Constance, Jeanette) (Joan Kennan Collection)
George, at Princeton, while still fond of automobiles (Joan Kennan Collection)
Passport photo, May 1924 (Joan Kennan Collection)
George, on left, Princeton graduate and deckhand, 1925 (Joan Kennan Collection)
The young diplomat, probably in Estonia, late 1920s (Joan Kennan Collection)
Annelise Sorensen Kennan, early 1930s (Joan Kennan Collection)
Presenting credentials, Moscow, December 1933 (from left, Bullitt, Kennan in background, Kalinin) (Princeton University Library)
George, third from left, brooding in Norway; Annelise, second from right (Joan Kennan Collection)
The Washington Post, September 15, 1938 (from left, Joan, George, Grace, Annelise) (Joan Kennan Collection, used by permission of the Associated Press and The Washington Post)
George in wartime Berlin, ca. 1940–41 (Joan Kennan Collection)
George, closely supervised, visiting collective farm, probably in Siberia, June 1945 (Joan Kennan Collection)
The “long telegram” (Harry S. Truman Library)
The Policy Planning Staff, 1947. From left, Kennan, Carlton Savage, Joseph Johnson, Leroy Stinebower (substituting for Jacques Reinstein), Ware Adams (Princeton University Library, used by permission of The Washington Post)
President Truman, Robert M. Lovett, Kennan, and Charles E. Bohlen at the White House, 1947 (Bettmann/CORBIS)
George C. Marshall and Dean Acheson, 1947 (Bettmann/CORBIS)
Kennan, dictating to Dorothy Hessman, 1949 (Joan Kennan Collection)
J. Robert Oppenheimer, John von Neumann, and the Institute for Advanced Study computer, 1952 (Bettmann/CORBIS)
Ambassador Kennan in his Mokhovaya office, contemplating the Kremlin, 1952 (Princeton University Library)
Arriving in New York from Moscow, November 1952 (from left, Wendy, Annelise, George, Christopher) (Bettmann/CORBIS)