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INDEX abortion, 168, 190, 192, 200, 205, 235, 249, 279 Abrams, Elliot, 227, 228, 256, 264 Abu Ghraib, 277 accommodationism, 291; and Carter, 196; and Democratic Party, 303; and Eisenhower, 119; and neoconservatives, 296; and Obama, 9, 303; and Republican Party, 8, 291; and Soviet Union, 228, 245–46; tenets of, 29, 30, 33 Acheson, Dean, 78, 84, 87 affirmative action, 149, 204 Afghanistan: and Carter, 202; and George W. Bush, 271–72; Northern Alliance, 272; and Obama, 302; and Reagan, 209, 214, 219, 221, 222–23; and Soviet Union, 221, 222–23, 228; and terrorism, 313 Africa, 181–82, 262, 287 African Americans, 41; and black nationalism, 137; and Dukakis, 234; and Eisenhower, 89; and election of 1948, 75; and election of 1960, 127; and election of 1984, 220; and election of 2008, 285; and Goldwater, 135; and Johnson, 132, 137; and militancy, 192; and Obama, 284; and Republican Party, 124–25, 137; and Vietnam, 146 Agnew, Spiro, 145, 160, 176 AIDS, 287 Aiken, George, 64, 92, 136 Albanians, 262 Alexander, Lamar, 260, 261 Algeciras Conference, 15 Allen, Richard, 199 Allende, Salvador, 172, 173 Alliance for Progress, 109 al Qaeda, 271, 272, 274, 283, 288, 302, 312, 313 America First Committee, 45–46, 47, 54–55 American Communist Party, 78 American Conservative, 274, 304 American Enterprise Institute, 201, 256, 282, 305 American exceptionalism, 5, 11, 22, 27–28, 227, 291, 307, 322 American Revolution, 5, 25 Anderson, John, 203, 205 Andropov, Yuri, 218 Angola, 181, 182, 182, 183, 185, 186, 187, 223, 228, 244 anti-ballistic missiles, 145, 157, 197. See also missile defense Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 164, 214, 268, 271 anti-interventionism, 35, 38; and Buchanan, 274; and Clinton, 232; and conservatism, 30, 31, 304–5; and Democratic Party, 46; and election of 1944, 68; and election of 1948, 75; and election of 2000, 269; and election of 2008, 284; and Franklin Roosevelt , 47, 54, 56, 58; and Hoover, 20, 22; and Mackinac declaration, 66; and neoconservatives , 140; and Neutrality Acts, 44; and overseas commitments, 6; and Republican Party, 8, 31, 34, 40, 42, 45, 46, 47, 49, 51, 254, 257–58, 259, 290, 292, 293, 294, 304–5; and Robert Taft, 21, 39, 43–44, 50, 52, 53, 57, 64, 72, 83, 291; tenets of, 30; and United Nations, 71; and Vandenberg, 65; view of, 30 anti-Vietnam War movement, 138, 150, 153, 158, 159, 160, 166, 167, 171, 192 apartheid, 226 Arab-Israeli war of 1967, 174 Arabs, 108, 217; and oil embargo, 174, 175 Arbenz, Jacobo, 99–100 Arizona, 123 arms control, 143, 308; and Carter, 195, 196; and Clinton, 232, 262; and Congress, 185; and conservatives, 177; and Eisenhower, 105–6, 111, 115; and election of 1984, 219, 220; and Ford, 177, 178; and George H. W. Bush, 8, 232, 236, 237, 244, 245–46, 251; and George W. Bush, 287; and Helms, 256; and Hoover, 20; and Kissinger, 186; and national security hawks, 177; and Nixon, 156–57, 163–64, 186; and Obama, 302, 303, 314; and Reagan,  I N D E X arms control (continued) 206, 207, 210–11, 213, 218, 219, 221–22, 224, 228, 229; and Republican Party, 262. See also nuclear policy Ashbrook, John, 167 Asia, 14–15 Atlantic alliance, 125 Atlantic Charter, 57, 60, 63 Atlantic community, 62 atoms for peace, 105, 106 Austin, Warren, 64 Australia, 100, 287 Austria, 236 autocrats/authoritarian rule, 182, 319; and Carter, 198; and Eisenhower, 99; and George W. Bush, 272; and Nixon, 157, 158; and Reagan, 226, 227; and Republican Party, 255 Azores, 56 B-1 bomber, 208 B-2 bomber, 208 Baker, Howard, 139, 196, 198, 203 Baker, James, 235, 238, 243, 254, 274, 282, 305 Balkans, 247, 256, 258, 260 ballistic missiles, 110, 111, 113, 156, 164, 208, 210, 211, 221, 314 Baltic states, 237, 244, 245 banks, 16, 17, 18, 20, 59 Barnes, Fred, 280 Batista, Fulgencio, 109 Bauer, Gary, 264, 269 Bay of Pigs, 128, 129 Beirut Marine barracks bombing, 217 Bell, Daniel, 139, 140 Berlin, 107, 109–10, 114, 156, 163. See also East Germany Berlin Wall, 128, 129, 236, 237 Beveridge, Albert, 14 Bishop, Maurice, 215 Bismarck, Otto von, 151 Black Power, 192 Bohlen, Charles, 94 Boland amendment, 210, 223 Bolton, John, 306 Boot, Max, 306 Borah, William, 18, 19, 42 Bosnia, 246–48, 251, 252, 253, 255, 258, 260, 261 Bosnian Moslems, 258, 260 Bozell, L. Brent, 120 Bretton Woods system, 68–69, 161, 162 Brezhnev, Leonid, 163, 177, 179, 221 Bricker, John...

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