The Atlantic and Its Enemies

Balogh, Sandor

Balogh, Thomas, Baron

Baltic states see also Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania

Baltimore

Baluchis

Balzac, Honore de

Bandung conference (1955)

Bank of England

Bank for International Settlements

banking crisis (2008-9)

Barcelona

Barchard, David

Bari

Barings Bank

Barkey, Henri

Barnett, Correlli

Barraclough, Geoffrey, Origins of Modern Germany

Barthes, Roland

Bartley, Robert

Barzani, Mustafa

BASF (corporation)

Basle

Batista, Fulgencio

Bauer, Peter, Baron

Bavaria

Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)

Bayly, Sir Christopher

Bayonne

Bayreuth

BBC

Bearsden, Scotland

Beatles, the

Beckett, Samuel

Beduins

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Fidelio

Belgian Congo

Belgium:

coal and steel production

colonies

and EEC

and Kurdish nationalism

and Marshall Plan

nationalism

oil imports

Second World War

universities see also Benelux

Belgrano (battleship)

Bell, Marie

Ben Bella, Ahmed

Benelux

Benes, Edvard

Bengal

Bennett, Catherine

Bennett, William

Beria, Lavrenti

overthrow and execution

Berkeley, University of

Berlin:

blockade of 1948-9

bomb damage

crisis of 1961

introduction of Deutsche Mark in Western zone

Soviet occupation zone

wartime

see also East Berlin; West Berlin

Berlin Wall:

building of

fall of

Berman, Jakub

Besancon, Alain

Bessarabia

Bessmertnykh, Aleksandr

Bevin, Ernest

Bichelonne, Jean

Bien Hoa airfield

Biermann, Wolf

Bierut, Boleslaw

Biffen, John, Baron

Bilkent University

Bingol

biological warfare

biotechnology

Birmingham

Birmingham University

Bismarck, Otto von

Bissell, Richard

Bitlis

‘Bizonia’/‘Trizonia’ (Allied occupation zones in Germany)

Blackbourn, David

Blair, Tony

Blake, William

Blanning, Tim

Bloch, Ernst

Blunt, (Sir) Anthony

Blyukher, Vasily

BMW (automobile manufacturer)

‘boat people’:

Cambodian