Empires Apart (86 page)

Truman Doctrine,
447

Truman, Harry S.,
430
,
431
,
441

trusts,
315
,
319

tsars,
123
,
302

Tulsa Pogrom,
344

Turkestan,
275

Turkey,
237
,
333

Turkmenistan,
503

Turner, Frederick,
106

Turner Thesis,
106–7

Tyler, John,
234

UK.
See
Britain

Ukraine,
387–88
,
393
,
503
,
504

Ulyanov, Alexander,
283

Ulyanov, Vladimir.
See
Lenin

Uncle Tom's Cabin
(Stowe),
358

Underhill, John,
86
,
87

Ungern-Sternberg, Roman Fedorovich von,
396

United Fruit Company,
366–67
,
370
,
455
,
456

United Nations,
434
,
525

United States of America.
See
America

United States, term,
515

urbanisation, America,
249
,
251

US.
See
America

USSR.
See
Russia

Uzbekistan,
275
,
503

values, modern,
272

Van Buren, Martin,
264

Vanderbilt, Cornelius,
242

Vanderbilt, William,
308

Varangians.
See
Vikings

Vasilly (second False Dimitry),
83

Vermont,
172

Versailles, Treaty of,
382

Vespucci, Amerigo,
35–37

Victorians,
245

Vienna, Congress of,
206

Vietnam,
534

Vietnam War,
472–74
,
486
,
488

Vikings,
22–23
,
28
,
144

Virginia,
52
,
54
,
55
,
97

Vladimir,
24
,
25

Vladivostok,
325

Volga,
64–65
,
190
,
191

Vorkuta,
415

Walker, William,
241

war,
263
,
265
,
482
,
489–91

War Between the States.
See
American Civil War

War of 1812,
210–11
,
217

War of Austrian Succession,
153

War of Rebellion,
265

War of Spanish Succession,
152–53

Warsaw,
196
,
232
,
394

Washington, George

American Revolution,
164
,
166

New Connecticut,
171

Ohio,
155

president,
181

slavery,
247

wealth,
155
,
190

Waterloo, battle,
205

wealth,
310
,
535
,
536

wealth transfers,
536

Webster, Daniel,
284

Welshofer, Lewis, Jr.,
523

West Indies,
58

Whitney, Eli,
230

Wilde, Oscar,
297

Williams, Roger,
100

Wilson, Woodrow,
245
,
379–82
,
384

Winthrop, John,
96
,
99

women,
250
,
301
,
311
,
379
,
399–400

Wounded Knee, battle of,
282

Wyatt, Sir Francis,
54

Yalta Conference,
427
,
434
,
437

Yaroslav the Wise,
64

Yastrzhembsky, Sergei,
508

Yazoo Land Fraud,
190

Yeamans, Sir John,
59–60

Yeltsin, Boris,
507

Yermak Timofeyevich,
111
,
113–15

Yugoslavia,
439
,
503

Zasulich, Vera,
297–98

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