An American History

INDEX ★ A-109

Jackson State University, 1039

Jacobs, Jane, 1004

Jamaica, 808

Japan, 683, 761, 768, 772–73, 774,

775, 795, 804, 866, 869, 870 , 874,

898–900, 902, 914, 916, 1043–44,

1134, 1152

as Axis power, 867

economic reconstruction of, 912

expulsion from Vietnam of, 964

immigrants from, 617, 697

invasion of Manchuria by, 865

trade with, 866, 868

U.S. declaration of war against, 869

U.S. oil and, 866, 868

in World War I, 742

in World War II, 867, 877–78, 878 ,

890–93, 895, 898–900

World War II surrender of, 899

Japanese immigrants, Japanese-Ameri-

cans, 890–93, 1092, 1118

in Hawaii, 680

World War II internment of, 863, 891–93,

891 , 972, 1119

jazz, 808, 918

Jazz Age, 781

Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826), 652, 756,

1101

Jeffersonian, 753

Jehovah’s Witnesses, 877

Jesus, 657, 669, 786, 830

Jesus People, 1013

Jews, 664, 706, 755, 758, 774, 799, 803,

806, 834, 841, 885, 903, 930, 953,

1086, 1103

Book of Exodus and, 661

in FDR administration, 852

in flight from Russia, 698

in Hollywood, 853, 885

Holocaust and, 873, 885

Ku Klux Klan and, 803

lynching of, 803

in Nazi Germany, 822, 865

prejudice against, 806, 807

on television, 947

World War I and, 743

see also anti-Semitism

Jim Crow, 906, 969, 974, 977, 988, 1022,

1063

Jobs, Steve (1955–2011), 1083

Johnson, Andrew (1808–1875), 576, 1103

background of, 579

emancipation and, 579

Iraq War, 748, 1114–17, 1120, 1127, 1128,
1136
casualties in, 1144–45
Obama and end of, 1144
Ireland, 616, 774, 776
Irish, Irish immigrants, 631, 646, 669, 701,
743, 805
integration and, 1035
World War II and, 866
Irish Free State, 775
“iron curtain,” 909
iron industry, 618, 660
Ironworkers’ Noontime, The (Anshutz), 637
Iroquois, in World War II, 887–90
Isato, Sono, 892
ISIS (Islamic State), 1115 , 1146–47
Islam:
in America today, 1125
and fundamentalism, 1086, 1112, 1114
Gulf War and, 1074
Iran and, 1050–52
Middle East, 1066
Nation of, 1001
Obama’s speech to repair relations with,
1136
radicals and, 965
Saudi Arabia and, 1001, 1106
isolationism, 794–95, 866, 908, 957
Israel, 964, 1044, 1050, 1066, 1079, 1086,
1106, 1114, 1117 , 1153
issei, 890
“Is This the End?” (Freeman), 1112
Italians, Italian-Americans, 696, 697,
698–99, 755, 779–80, 852
in East Harlem, 952
in Hollywood, 853
World War II and, 866, 885–86, 890
Italy, 616, 795, 890, 919, 1026, 1151
as Axis power, 867
communist party in, 911
immigrants from, 669
liberation of, 871
rise of Mussolini in, 865
Venezuela and, 739
It Can’t Happen Here (Lewis), 836
“It’s Fun to be Free,” 868
Ivory soap, 607
IWW, see Industrial Workers of the World

Jackson, Andrew (1767–1845), veto power
and, 582
Jackson, Blyden (1910–2000), 668
Jackson, Robert H. (1892–1954), 892