An American History

INDEX ★ A-131

special interests, 727

lobbying by, 630, 790, 883

Spokane, Wash., 709

Springfield, Mo., 763

Springsteen, Bruce (1949–), 1047

Sputnik, 960, 979

Square Deal, 725

stagflation, 1044–45, 1057

Stalin, Joseph (1879–1953), 822, 853, 867,

900, 901 , 908, 909, 912, 916, 926,

933, 962

death of, 961

and nonaggression pact, 867

World War II strategy of, 871

Stalingrad, 871

Standard Oil Company, 609, 610, 679, 695,

728

Stanford University, 759

Stanton, Edwin M. (1814–1869), 564, 584

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815–1902), 588,

589 , 756, 787

Starr, Kenneth (1947–), 1102–3

“Star-Spangled Banner, The” (Key), 680

state-church separation, 801, 1023

State Department, U.S., 908, 918–19, 929,

961, 978, 1005, 1066, 1114, 1117

McCarthy and, 929, 930, 936

Staten Island, N.Y., 1143

State of the Union Address (1941), 861

State of the Union Address (1996), 1078

State of the Union Address (2002), 1113

states’ rights, 926, 1057

Andrew Johnson’s views of, 579

States’ Rights Democratic Party, 926, 927

Statue of Liberty, 603–4, 623, 644, 646,

702, 749–50, 749 , 754 , 763, 932 , 954

Stead, W. T. (1849–1912), 734–35

steamships, 609

steel industry, 609, 649–51, 660, 676, 702,

704, 736, 769–70, 782, 790–91, 830,

832, 874, 922–23, 943, 948, 959, 960,

1062, 1120

Steel Workers Organizing Committee, 831,

832

Steffens, Lincoln (1866–1936), 695, 784

Steichen, Edward (1879–1973), 695

Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946), 797

Steinbeck, John (1902–1968), 827,

842–43

Stennis, John C. (1901–1995), 1042

sterilization, involuntary, 760

Stettheimer, Florine, 754

Stevens, Thaddeus (1792–1868), 581–82,

583, 583 , 596–97

South Vietnam, 1006, 1008, 1024, 1039
Southwest, 1123
Soviet Exhibition, 940
Soviet Union, 767–68, 812, 822, 853, 864,
866, 867, 871, 900, 907, 910, 920,
921, 926, 929, 935, 956, 966, 1003,
1032, 1038, 1050, 1067–68
Afghanistan invasion by, 1051–52
American National Exhibition and, 940,
942
atomic bomb of, 912
Berlin occupation by, 912–13
breakup of, 1072, 1074, 1075
Cold War and, 916
collapse of communism in, 1072
Cuban Missile Crisis and, 990–91
Czechoslovakia invasion by, 1026
Eastern Europe occupation by, 901, 902,
908, 912
Eisenhower and, 961–62
European empires and, 962
German invasion of, 868, 871, 872 , 908
Gulf War and, 1074
hydrogen bomb and, 961
invasion of Germany by, 898
Korean War and, 914–16
Lend-Lease and, 868
Manchuria invasion by, 899
Reagan and, 1065
space exploration and, 960, 979, 989
spying of, 932
support of the arts by, 918
in U.N., 902
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
and, 921
Vietnam and, 1006, 1038
weapons tests of, 927
see also Cold War
soybean, 944
Spain, 681, 768, 932
rise of Franco in, 865
Spanish-American War, 680, 681, 682 , 683,
685, 685 , 686, 728, 804
acquisition of empire and, 735
Battle of San Juan Hill in, 681–82
casualties in, 681
causes of, 681
naval battle at Manila Bay in, 681
see also Philippine War
Spanish Civil War, 866, 932
Sparkman, John (1899–1985), 935
speakeasies, 781, 801, 808
Special Field Order 15, 566
Special Forces, U.S., 1145