and Greekwar
and Haiti
health care
ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles)
immigration
income per capita
inflation
intelligentsia
interest rates
and Iran
Iran-Contra affair
and Israel
Jews in
Korean War
Lend-Lease aid to Britain
McCarthyism
mass culture
missionaries in China
motorways
National Security Council (NSC)
New Deal
New Frontier
nuclear weapons development
oil industry
and Pakistan
personal debt
and Poland
post-war occupation of Japan
poverty
Presidential elections: (1952); (1960); (1964); (1968); (1972); (1976); (1980); (1984); (1988)
productivity
public transport
‘pursuit of happiness’
racial problem
refugee groups
Republican Party
‘rust belt’
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
and Saudi Arabia
Savings and Loans crisis
Second World War
space programme
steel production
Strategic Defense Initiative (‘Star Wars’)
strikes
‘supply-side’ economics
Supreme Court
taxation
technological developments
trade unions
and Turkey
underclass
unemployment
universities
urban development and decay
visa system
Watergate scandal
welfare system
westward migration
USSR:
Afghanistan war (1979-89)
Agitation and Propaganda department
alcoholism
American grain imports
and Angola
anti-alcohol campaign
atomic bombs
and Austria
Berlin blockade (1948-9)
birth rate
border conflicts with China
business management methods
censorship
and Chile
and Chinesewar
collapse of communism
collectivization policy
commissariat for culture
coup of August 1991
Cuban crisis of 1962
cultural institutions
deportations
disintegration
dissidents
‘Doctors’ plot’ (1952)
and East Germany
economic stagnation
and Egypt
and Ethiopia
Five Year Plans
friendship treaty with China (1950)
German invasion (1941)
and human rights
and Hungarian uprising of 1956
ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles)
inflation
information technology
