income, 68, 254
in Iraq, 530–31
middle-class, 484
Reagan’s contradictory statements about, 445
Reagan’s cuts for the wealthy, 438, 462
war and, 505
on wealthy, 61
on working class, 63
Taylor, Glen, 192, 221
Taylor, Maxwell, 295, 305, 315, 367
Taylor, Telford, 173, 174
Tea Party, xiv
Tehran, 110, 116, 455
Teicher, Howard, 439
telecommunications, 551
Teller, Edward, 134–35, 229, 275, 284, 364
Tenet, George, 497–98, 502, 511, 514, 519, 528, 542
Tennessee:
bank holiday in, 47
Crusader White Shirts in, 53
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 196
terrorism, terrorists, 506, 528, 534, 535
domestic, 488
G. W. Bush’s war on, 504–5
national brainwashing on, 544
potential targets for, 505
state, 472
Tet Offensive, 316, 339, 341
Texaco Oil Company, 84
Texas, University of, 553
Thach, Nguyen Co, 365–66
Thailand, 100, 266, 304, 328, 338, 389, 576
Thatcher, Margaret, 434
Thieu, Nguyen Van, 332, 333, 358–59, 387, 393–94
third world, 257–58, 464
halt in economic growth of, 425–26
Soviet withdrawal from, 467–68
Thomas, Helen, 531–32
Three Russian Girls, 106
Three Soldiers (Dos Passos), 41
Thurmond, Strom, 221
Tibbets, Paul, 157, 166–67, 167
Time, 50, 52, 55, 101, 122, 140, 223, 240, 242, 258, 300, 341, 373–74, 387, 524, 613
Tito, Josip Broz, 208–9, 257
Toge, Sankichi, 169–70
Tojo, Hideki, 138
Tokyo, 147, 161, 356, 488
bombing of, 157–59, 158, 303
Tokyo war criminal trials, 215
Toledo, Ohio, general strike in, 57, 58
Tora Bora, 507
torture, 507–11, 511, 514, 549, 600
in Argentina and Chile, 424
in CIA “black site” facilities, 504, 507–10
G. W. Bush administration and, 499–500, 561, 568
in Pakistan, 429
psychological, 507–8
Toyama, 158
Toyoda, Soemu, 147, 175
trade unions, 4, 58–59, 138
Trading with the Enemy Act, 81
Trans-Pacific Partnership, 610–11
Transparency International, 533, 583
Treasury Department, U.S., 70–71, 530, 551–53
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 28
Treaty of London, 31–32
Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security (AMPO), 380–81
Treblinka, 127
Trident submarines, 416
Trilateral Commission, 401–3, 464, 490, 491
Triple Entente, see Allies
Trotsky, Leon, 9, 26, 28, 34
Troubled Asset Relief Plan (TARP), 553
Truman, Bess, 126, 151, 162
Truman, Harry, 53, 96, 121, 140, 158, 161, 190, 191, 194, 199, 211, 213, 223, 225, 237, 247, 254, 259, 262, 392, 635n, 640n
administration of, 224, 244
aggressive attitude of, 123–25, 141, 146–47, 163, 196, 200, 246, 248
background of, 140–42
Britain favored by, 184, 187
Churchill’s “iron curtain” speech and, 191–94, 191
H. Wallace’s firing by, 202–5
as H. Wallace’s replacement, 140, 142–43
interventionist foreign policy of, 207–9, 207
on Israel-Palestine, 218
Korean War and, 236–41, 243–44, 246
loyalty checks required by, 212
loyalty-security program of, 231
MacArthur fired by, 242–44, 243
in 1948 elections, 220–22
nuclear warfare and, 143–44, 158, 160–66, 171–72, 175–80, 185, 196–97, 228, 230–31, 256
at Potsdam, 161–66, 165, 171
racism and anti-Semitism of, 141, 151, 217, 218
response to Berlin blockade by, 220
rightward shift of, 186, 194
succession to presidency of, 117–19, 119, 143
wartime policy of, 120–29, 144–48
Truman, John “Peanuts,” 140, 163
Truman Doctrine, 207, 207
Tugwell, Rexford Guy, 48, 63, 69
Tunisia, 265, 305, 563, 613
Turkey, 4, 67–68, 189, 190, 206, 207, 208, 216, 474–75, 555, 601, 602
Iraq war opposed in, 524
U.S. IRBMs in, 302, 306–7, 308, 310
Turkish Straits, 189
Turkmenistan, 488, 591
Turley, Jonathan, 561–62, 565
Turner, Stansfield, 397, 403, 405
U-2 reconnaissance planes, 276, 279, 306, 307, 309–11
Ubico, Jorge, 260–61
U-boats, German, 5–6, 68
Ukraine, 28, 97, 214, 450, 537–38
Ukrainian National Organization, 214
UN Conference on Disarmament, 542
UN Convention Against Torture, 500, 508
unemployment, xxii, 45, 57, 61, 406, 614
African-American, 59
European, 188
unilateralism, 494, 496, 497, 549
United Arab Emirates, 506, 583, 586
United Fruit Company, xxviii, xxix, xxx, 82, 254, 262–65, 279, 291
United Nations, 114, 120, 121–22, 124, 201, 234, 241, 252, 265, 320, 321, 329, 389, 394, 404, 408, 420, 424, 434, 464, 477, 480–81, 489, 538, 569, 575, 583, 589
Assistance Mission of, in Afghanistan, 594
China and, 236, 313
Disarmament Commission of, 330
drug control agency of, 594
Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” speech in, 256
Electoral Complaints Commission of, 585
Gender-Related Development Index of, 580
General Assembly of, 218, 280, 376, 436
Gorbachev’s address to, 463–64, 465, 466, 467
Iraq’s use of chemical weapons brought before, 440
Korean War and, 236–37, 250–51
nuclear regulation plan in, 196–98
Palestine and, 218, 601
Powell’s UN Iraq War speech in, 519–20
Resolution 1441 of, 517
Resolution of, on the Prevention of an Outer Space Arms Race, 542
sanctions on Iraq by, 475
Security Council of, 236–37, 240, 346, 472, 476, 478, 491, 516, 517, 520–21, 532, 601
weapons inspectors of, 491, 515–17, 520, 532
United Nations Charter, 346, 384
United Railways of Central America, 254
United States:
aerial warfare by, 24, 157–59
Allied sympathies of, 5
arms manufacturers in, 439
ascendance in wake of World War I, 38
business interests of, 254, 263, 352–53, 356, 372, 376–77
casualties of, 87, 106, 138, 145, 244, 245
chemical warfare research in, 20–26
Cold War and, 180, 204–26
declining prestige of, 241–42, 256–58, 271, 289, 293, 304, 319, 349, 403, 510, 524, 544–45, 549, 600, 603–4
as defender of status quo, xxvii
economic collapse in, 462, 549, 605, 613, 615
economic hegemony of, 112–13, 114–15
economy of, 54, 61, 62, 123, 182, 418, 610
economy sanctions against Japan by, 90
eugenics in, 80–81
expansionist impulse in, xv–xvi
financial crisis of 1998 in, 549, 552, 554
future role of, 526
as global hegemon, xi, 355, 482, 490, 566, 604
immigration legislation in, 88, 151, 156, 217
imperialism of, xii–xxxiii, xxiii, 38–41, 101, 172, 222, 240, 275, 295, 377, 434, 500, 550
income inequality in, 545–47, 549, 554–56