Index 361
Office of Economic Stabilization, 240
Office of Production Management, 240
Office of Scientific Research and
Development, 240
Office of Strategic Services, 240
Office of War Information, 240
Oglethorpe, James, 20
Oh io, 76 , 198
oil, 178 , 182 , 187 , 189 , 209 – 10 , 236 , 289 ,
303 – 4
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 209
Okinawa, Battle of, 242
Oklahoma City bombing, 309
Olmert, Ehud, 331
Olympics (Moscow, 1980 ), 291
Oneida tribe, 9
O’Neill, Eugene, 209
O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,” 272 ,
288 – 89 , 293 – 94 , 296 , 299
Onondaga tribe, 9
Opechancanough, Chief, 10 – 12
Oregon, 238 , 332 ; Territory, 69 , 123
Orlando, Vittorio, 203
O’Sullivan, John L., 122 , 189 – 90
Otis, James, 32 , 35
Ottawa Indians, 31
Our American Cousin (play), 153
Ove rlord, Operation, 243
Owen, Robert, 113 – 14
Pacific Railroad Act ( 1862 ), 146
pacifi sm, 200 – 201
Packwood, Robert, 309
Paine, Thomas, 38 – 39 , 42
Pakistan, 326
Palestinians, 312 , 331
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 209
Panama, 195 ; invasion of 1989 , 303
Panama Canal, 194 – 95 ; Treaty ( 1977 ),
195 , 290
Panama Congress, 93 – 94
Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo,
1901 ), 193
Panetta, Leon, 310
Panic: of 1837 , 111 , 132 ; of 1873 , 171 , 173 ,
176 ; of 1893 , 184 – 85
Paris, Treaty of: ( 1763 ), 28 , 29 ; ( 1783 ),
45 , 52 ; ( 1898 ), 192
Paris Peace talks (Vietnam War), 278 ,
280 – 81
Parker, Alton B., 195
Parks, Rosa, 261
Partisan, The (Simms), 118
Paterson, William, 49
Patriot Act ( 2001 , 2003 ), 327
patronage system, 175 – 77
Patton, Gen. George S., 241
Pawtuxet tribe, 14
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act ( 1909 ), 197
Peace Corps, 267
Pearl Harbor attack, 192 , 236 – 39
Pelosi, Nancy, 315 , 335
Pemaquid tribe, 14
Pendleton, George H., 151
peninsulares, 7
Penn, William, 19 – 20
Pennsylvania, 19 – 20 , 22 , 25 , 28 – 29 , 36 ,
47 , 51
Pennsylvania Railroad, 132
Pentagon Papers, 280
Pequot War, 27
Perot, H. Ross, 306 , 312
Pershing, Gen. John J., 202
Peru, 7 , 84
Pétain, Marshal Henri-Philippe, 233
Petersburg, siege of ( 1864 – 65 ), 150 ,
152
phalanxes, 113
Philadelphia, 47 , 56 , 131
Philip II, king of Spain, 9 – 10
Philippines, 8 , 191 – 93 , 211 , 236 – 37 ,
241 – 42
Phillips, David Graham, 196
Phips, Sir William, 27
Pilgrims, 13 – 14
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 196
Pinckney, Gen. Charles C., 65
Pioneers, The (Cooper), 76
Pitt, William, 28
Pizarro, Francisco, 7
plantations, 22 , 77 , 132 – 34
Plessy v. Ferguson, 178 , 261