A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

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Cuba 493, 575–576; ‘Bay of Pigs’
564; missile crisis (1962)
567–574; American influence
493; and intervention 494
Cuellar, Javier Pérez de 710, 914
Cultural Revolution (China)
612–613, 618
Curtin, John 668
Curzon, Lord 429
Cyprus 538–539, 878–879, 953
Czech Legion 121
Czech-German Treaty (1973) 834
Czechoslovakia 122–123, 131,
435; population 230; as liberal
democracy 230–231; alliance
with France 138; Hitler’s threat
to 230, 231; German occupation
of 232, 271; Munich decision on
231–232; post-war settlement
293; expulsion of Sudeten
Germans 311; communist threat
326–327, 368; 1948 communist
coup 370–371; Soviet invasion
(1968) 780, 894; dissidence
894; revolution (1989) 895;
Czech Republic and NATO 892;
and economic and political
change 895; and European
Union 952


Dahlerus, Birger 236
Daladier, Edouard 230
Dalai Lama 632
Daley, Richard 560
Dallaire, Roméo 744
Dalton, Hugh 334
Daniel, Yali 785
D’Annunzio, Gabriele 144, 147
Danquah, Dr 730–731
Danzig (now Gdànsk) 118, 235
Dardanelles 96
Darfur 420
Darlan, Admiral Jean 289
Dawes, Charles G. 138
Dayan, General Moshe 449, 457,
458
Dayton Accord 923–924
De Gaulle, Charles 246, 289, 563;
and Free French 251, 291, 289,
338; determined on restoration
of France 291; as head of
provisional government
338–341; resignation over
constitutional question 341;
new national movement 342;
and end of French rule in Syria
426; return as president of Fifth


Republic 528–529; and future
of Germany 518; and Algeria
526–528; drafts new
constitution 529; foreign policy
518–521, 531–532; resignation
534; opposes British bid to join
Common Market 546; and
colonial Africa 515, 726
De Klerk, F. W. 769–770
Dean, Sir Patrick 450
Debré, Michel 529
Debs, Eugene V. 68
Deir Yassin massacre (1948) 435
Delors, Jacques 868, 874, 875,
876
Delors Plan 876, 883
Deng Xiaoping 610, 611, 612,
617, 619–623, 625
Denmark 241; Jews in 269; in
NATO 374; and Maastricht
877
Desai, Morarji 640
‘Desert Storm’ 914–916
Dewey, Thomas E. 486
Díaz, General Porfirio 715
Diefenbaker, John 376
Diem – seeNgo
Dien Bien Phu 388
Dieppe 279, 375
Dillon, Douglas 561
Dimitrijevic ́, Colonel Dragutin 54
Dimitrov, Georgi 158, 324
displaced persons 310–311
Djilas, Milovan 325
Dobrynin, Anatoly 572
Doctors’ Plot (1953) 471
Doe, Samuel 736
Doi, Takako 653
Dole, Robert 825
Dollfuss, Engelbert 208, 209
Dönitz, Admiral Karl 298
Dowding, Sir Hugh 246
Dresden 305
Drexler, Anton 184, 187
Dreyfus affair (1894–1906) 1, 22,
24
Dual Monarchy – seeAustria-
Hungary
Duarte, José Napoleon 707, 709
Dubcˇek, Alexander 780, 895
Dubrovnik 919
Duhaldo, Eduardo 698
Dukakis, Michael 820
Dulles, Allen Foster 492
Dulles, John Foster 445–452,
557–558; wooing of Nasser
442; and Suez crisis 498; and

communist challenge 491–500;
and Korean War 491; and
SEATO 559
Dumbarton Oaks Conference
(1944) 292
Dunkirk 240, 250
Dunkirk Treaty (1947) 335
Dutch (Netherlands) East Indies
260, 261, 285; independence
383–385

EAM (Greek National Liberation
Front) 336
East African Common Services
Organisation 747
East African Economic
Community 747
East African High Commission
747
East Germany – seeGerman
Democratic Republic
East Timor 596, 597
Easter rising (Dublin 1916) 94
Ebert, Friedrich 115, 127
Economic Co-operation
Administration 368
Eden, Anthony 210; resigns over
Chamberlain’s appeasement
policy 227; as foreign secretary
388; attempts to placate Nasser
442–443; changed attitude to
Nasser 445; and Suez crisis
446–452
EDES (Greek resistance group)
336
Edward VIII 162
Egypt 419, 422, 424, 453, 942;
and Second World War 272,
424; nationalism 432, 441; and
Arab-Israeli war 435–437;
revolution 441; and Suez crisis
442–452; struggle for Middle
East leadership 453; and Six-
Day War 457–459; and Yom
Kippur War 461; and from
Russia 458; peace talks with
Israel 906–908, 917
Eichmann, Adolf 268
Einstein, Albert 191
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 486, 487;
as wartime supreme commander
289; and Suez 447, 451–452,
455; political values 487; and
civil rights 488; as NATO
supreme commander 490; and
Korean War 490, 491; campaign
against communism 490–492,

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