health care
ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles)
immigration
income per capita
inflation
intelligentsia
interest rates
and Iran
Iran-Contra affair
and Israel
Jews in
Korean War
Lend-Lease aid to Britain
McCarthyism
mass culture
missionaries in China
motorways
National Security Council (NSC)
New Deal
New Frontier
nuclear weapons development
oil industry
and Pakistan
personal debt
and Poland
post-war occupation of Japan
poverty
Presidential elections: (1952); (1960); (1964); (1968); (1972); (1976); (1980); (1984); (1988)
productivity
public transport
‘pursuit of happiness’
racial problem
refugee groups
Republican Party
‘rust belt’
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
and Saudi Arabia
Savings and Loans crisis
Second World War
space programme
steel production
Strategic Defense Initiative (‘Star Wars’)
strikes
‘supply-side’ economics
Supreme Court
taxation
technological developments
trade unions
and Turkey
underclass
unemployment
universities
urban development and decay
visa system
Watergate scandal
welfare system
westward migration
see also CIA; Marshall Plan; Vietnam War
USSR:
Afghanistan war (1979-89)
Agitation and Propaganda department
alcoholism
American grain imports
and Angola
anti-alcohol campaign
atomic bombs
and Austria
Berlin blockade (1948-9)
birth rate
border conflicts with China
business management methods
censorship
and Chile
and Chinesewar
collapse of communism
collectivization policy
commissariat for culture
coup of August 1991
Cuban crisis of 1962
cultural institutions
deportations
disintegration
dissidents
‘Doctors’ plot’ (1952)
and East Germany
economic stagnation
and Egypt
and Ethiopia
Five Year Plans
friendship treaty with China (1950)
German invasion (1941)
glasnost
and human rights
and Hungarian uprising of 1956
ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles)
inflation
information technology
institutchiki
intelligentsia
internment camps
invasion of Czechoslovakia
and Iran
Jews in
and Korean War
life expectancy rates
and Marshall Plan
Molotov Plan
nationalism
navy
New Economic Policy
non-Russian populations
nuclear power
nuclear weapons development
oil and gas production
‘Optimal Functioning’ planning system
‘our common European home’
‘peaceful coexistence’ doctrine
peasantry
perestroyka
and Poland
power struggle following Stalin’s death
and ‘Prague Spring’
refugees in Turkey
relations with West Germany
religious persecution
reparations demands
and Romania
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
scientific and technological developments
Second World War
shortages and starvation
Siberian gas pipeline
Sino-Soviet split
slave labour
space programme
Spetsnaz (‘special forces’ troops)
stage managment of revolutions of 1989
Stalin’s purges
steel industry
strikes
television
and Turkey
underground theatre
universities
and Vietnam
Western studies of Soviet economy
winter war with Finland (1939-40)
see also Communist Party of Soviet Union; KGB; Red Army; RussianWar; Russian Revolution
Ussuri river
Ustinov, Dmitry
Uzbekistan
Uzbeks
Uzunada island
V
Vaizey, John, Baron
Valparaíso
Van, Turkey
Vance, Cyrus
Vandenberg Resolution (1948)
Vann, John
Vatican
Papal Guard
Vatican(ecumenical council)
Venezuela, oil production
Venice
Venice conference (1956)
venture capital
Verheugen, Günter
Verlaine, Paul
Vernadsky, George
Vernadsky, Vladimir
Vial (Chilean conglomerate)
Vichy France
Vienna:
airport bombing (1985)
Atomic Energy Commission
author’s studies in
espionage in
Karl-Marx Hof bombardment (1934)
Kraus on
OPEC headquarters
post-war rebuilding
State Opera
Taylor on
Vienna conference (1961)
Vienna OPEC conference (1973)
Vienna school of economics
Vietnam:
agricultual collectivization
‘boat people’
Buddhists
Catholics
Chinese minority population
Communist Party
famine
French rule
France-Indochina war
independence movement
industrialization
invasion of Cambodia (1978)
Japanese invasion (1941)
partition
peasantry
war with China see also North Vietnam; South Vietnam
Vietnam War (1959-75):
American conscription
American public opposition
Ap Bac, battle of (1963)
bombing campaigns
ceasefire
CIA involvement
civilian casualty totals
corruption
European response to
fall of Saigon (1975)
guerrilla warfare
Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964)
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Khe Sanh, battle of (1968)
Lam Son operation (1971)
media coverage
military casualty totals
My Lai massacre (1968)
numbers of American troops deployed
origins of
Paris peace talks
‘peace initiatives’
Phoenix ‘pacification’ programme
Tet offensive (1968)
use of Agent Orange
use of helicopters
‘Vietnamization’
Vilna
Vinde, Pierre
Vladikavkaz
Volcker, Paul
Volga Famine (1921-2)
Volga river
Volhynia
Volkswagen (automobile manufacturer)
Volobuyev, P. N.
Volvo (automobile manufacturer)
voodoo
Vorkuta
Voroshilov, Kliment
Vuskovic, Pedro
W
Waeyenbergh, Mgr Honoré van
wages councils (British)
Wagner, Richard
Parsifal
Wagner, Wieland
Wajda, Andrzej
Walden, George
Walder, Andrea
Waldheim, Kurt
Walentynowicz, Anna
Wałęsa, Lęch