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• Abbey Road (Beatles)
• Abdullah, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
• Abramoff, Jack
• Abu Dhabi
• Academy Awards
• Adams, Henry
• Adams, John
• Adams, John Quincy
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
• Affleck, Ben
• Afghanistan; British invasion of; Soviet incursion in; U.S. war in
• Africa; colonization of; languages of; rebellion against empires in; slaves from
• African Americans; anti-imperialist; chemical weapons tests on; free, in Louisiana Territory; Great Migration of; as guano workers; music of; in Philippine War; Wilson’s racism toward; in World War II
• Afrika Korps
• Afro-Caribbeans
• Afro-Cubans
• Agattu (Aleutian Islands)
• Agent Orange
• Agriculture, United States Department of (USDA)
• Aguinaldo, Emilio; in Philippine War; in war with Spain; during World War II
• Aguinaldo, Hilaria de
• Air Force, U.S.; in Gulf War; overseas bases for; see also Army, Air Forces of
• Alabama
• Alaska; on Greater United States map; Gruening as governor of; mainland indifference toward; nuclear weapons in; population of; purchase of; statehood of; during World War II
• Alaska Federation of Natives
• Alaskan Independence Party
• Albania
• Albizu Campos, Pedro; anti-imperialism of; arrests and imprisonment of; attempts to attend Paris Peace Conference; childhood of; at Harvard; hometown of; honored by Puerto Ricans in United States; Puerto Rican independence advocated by; in U.S. Army; Vieques Navy Base denounced by
• Aldermaston (England) nuclear weapons facility
• Aldrin, Buzz
• Aleutian Islands; nuclear weapons in
• Alfabet for the World of Tomorrow
• Algeria
• al-Qaeda
• “America” (Smith)
• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
• American Birth Control League
• American Civil Liberties Union
• American Federation of Labor (AFL)
• American Guano Company
• American Museum of Natural History (New York)
• American Samoa; annexation of; on Greater United States map; population of
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• “America the Beautiful”
• Amritsar Massacre
• Amsterdam News
• Anchorage (Alaska)
• Anglic
• Anglophones, see English language
• Anglo-Saxon Superiority (Demolins)
• Annapolis
• annexation; of Alaska; of American Samoa; anti-imperialist opposition to; fantasies of; Greater United States maps showing; of guano islands; of Hawai‘i; of Kuwait by Iraq; of Louisiana; of Mexican lands; post–World War II absence of; of U.S. Virgin Islands; related to war with Spain
• Antarctica
• anthems
• anti-imperialism; in Congress; and opposition to annexation; of Twain; of Wilson
• Anti-Imperialist League
• Apaches
• Apollo program
• Appalachians
• Arabic
• Arab oil embargo
• Aramco
• Arapahos
• Arellano, Arcadio
• Arellano, Juan
• Arellano, Miguel
• Argentina
• Arizona
• Arizona, USS (battleship)
• Arkansas
• Armstrong, Neil
• Army, U.S.; air forces of (see also specific models of planes); Chemical Warfare Service; Communications Service; in Gulf War; joint exercise of U.S. Navy and; in Korean War; in Louisiana Territory; in Philippine War; plastics used for uniforms and equipment by; postwar occupations run by; protests by soldiers of; segregation of; Signal Corps; in war with Spain; in World War I; in World War II
• Army-Navy Club (Manila)
• Arnaz, Desi
• Arnold, Gen. Henry H. (“Hap”)
• Art Deco
• Articles of War
• Arvad, Inga
• Asahina, Robert
• Ascension Island
• ASCII encoding
• Ashford, Bailey K.
• Ashford, María
• Asia; colonization of; rebellion against empires in; see also specific colonies, regions, and nations
• Asian Americans
• Asians
• assassinations; attempted
• Assassins (musical)
• Ateneo de Manila University
• Atlanta Constitution, The
• atlases
• atomic bombs, see nuclear weapons
• Atomic Energy Commission
• atrocities; see also massacres; torture
• Attu (Aleutian Islands)
• Auschwitz
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (movie)
• Australia
• Austria; post–World War II occupation of
• automobile industry; see also specific corporations

• B-1 bombers
• B-17 bombers
• B-29 Superfortresses
• B-47 bombers
• B-52 bombers
• B-52G Stratofortresses
• Back to Bataan (movie)
• Baghdad
• Baguio (Philippines)
• Bahamas
• Baidu website
• Bakelite
• Baker Island
• Balanga (Philippines)
• Balangiga Massacre
• Baldoni, Luis
• Baltimore
• Bangladesh
• Bank of Japan
• Barber, Stuart
• Barksdale Air Force Base
• Barthes, Roland
• Basic English
• Basilan
• Bataan (movie)
• Bataan, Battle of
• Batavia (Dutch East Indies)
• Bates, Katharine Lee
• “Battle Cry of Freedom, The”
• “Battle Hymn of the Republic, The”
• battleships, see names of specific ships
• Bauno, Kilon
• Bayan
• Bay of Pigs invasion
• BBC
• Beatles, the
• Beaux Arts architecture
• Beightler, Gen. Robert S.
• Belgium
• Bell, Gen. J. Franklin
• Bellamy, Edward
• Bentley, Alvin
• beriberi
• Berle, Adolf
• Berlin blockade and airlift
• Bermuda
• Bernstein, Leonard
• Berry, Chuck
• Betamax
• Beveridge, Albert
• B. F. Goodrich tire company
• Bharat, see India
• Bierce, Ambrose
• Bikini Atoll
• Bill of Rights
• bin Laden, Abdullah
• bin Laden, Awadh
• bin Laden, Mohamed
• bin Laden, Osama
• bin Laden, Saad
• bin Laden, Salem
• bin Laden construction firm
• birth control pills; see also contraceptives
• birther conspiracy theory
• Birth of a Nation, The (movie)
• Blackboard Jungle (movie)
• Black Panthers
• blacks, see African Americans
• black sites
• Blackwell, Blanche
• Blackwell, Chris
• Bloody Island Massacre
• Bollywood
• Bolsheviks
• Bonin Islands
• Boone, Daniel
• Boone and Crockett Club
• Boonesborough (Kentucky)
• Boot, Max
• Booth, John Wilkes
• Borneo
• “Born in the U.S.A.” (Springsteen)
• Boston
• Boston Globe
• Boston Tea Party
• Boustany, Charles
• Brazil
• Brereton, Lewis
• Breslau, University of
• Brezhnev, Leonid
• Bridge on the River Kwai, The (movie)
• Britain; colonies of, see British Empire; in Desert Storm coalition; industrialization in; U.S. military in
• British Council
• British Empire; American independence from; end of; governments of colonies in; holiday celebrating; in International Organization for Standardization; measurement system in; North American colonies of; Oregon claims of; in Paris Peace Conference; Peruvian guano industry monopolized by; telegraph cable system of; uprisings against; in World War I; in World War II; worldwide population of
• British Guiana
• Brown, Wenzell
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Bryan, William Jennings
• Brzezinski, Zbigniew
• bubonic plague
• Buchanan, Pat
• Bud Bagsak Massacre
• Bud Dajo Massacre
• Buenos Aires
• Buffalo (New York)
• Bullock, Seth
• Buna
• Burma; uprising against imperialism
• Burnham, Daniel
• Burr, Raymond
• Burtonwood U.S. Air Force base
• Bush, George H. W.
• Bush, George W.
• Business Insider
• Butler, Nicholas Murray
• Byron, George Gordon, Lord

• C++ coding language
• C-5 and C-6 transport planes
• Caddos
• Cairo (Egypt)
• Calhoun, John
• California; annexation of; statehood of
• Cambodia
• Cambridge University
• Cameroon
• Canada; First Nations of; Francophones in
• cancer
• Canon
• Canton Island
• Cape Gloucester
• Caribbean; claims to uninhabited islands of; rebellion against empires in; war with Spain in; see also specific colonies and nations in or adjacent to waters of
• Carnegie, Andrew
• Caroline Islands
• Carson, Kit
• Carter, Jimmy
• cartography, see maps
• Cash, Johnny
• Casino Royale (movie)
• Castle, William
• Castro, Fidel
• Castro, Raul
• Catholics
• Cazneau, Jane
• Cebu (Philippines)
• Census Bureau, U.S.
• censuses
• Central America
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• Central School (Manila)
• Chamberlain, Neville
• Chamoru; see also Guam
• Chaplin, Charlie
• Chateaubriand, François-René de
• chemical weapons; see also poison gas
• Cheney, Dick
• Chernobyl nuclear accident
• Cherokee Advocate, The
• Cherokee Phoenix
• Cherokees; language of
• Cheyennes
• Chiang Kai-shek
• Chicago; Burnham’s plan of; World’s Columbian Exposition in
• Chicago Herald
• Chicago Tribune, The
• Chickasaws
• Chile
• Chin, Gabriel
• China; Cultural Revolution in; English language in; exclusion of immigrants to United States from; exploitation of overseas laborers from; garment industry in; imperial spheres of influence in; plastic manufactured in; Red Army in; Republic of, see Taiwan; revolution in; U.S. soldiers’ protest in; during World War II
• Chincha Islands
• Chirac, Jacques
• Choctaws
• cholera
• Christians
• Christian Science Monitor, The
• Chrysler
• Churchill, Winston
• Cincinnati
• Citigroup
• city planning
• Civil War
• Clansman, The (Dixon)
• Clapton, Eric
• Clay, Gen. Lucius
• Clehouse, E. H.
• Clemens, Samuel, see Twain, Mark
• Cleveland
• Cleveland Herald
• Cliff, Jimmy
• Clinton, Bill
• Clinton, Hillary
• CNN
• Cody, Buffalo Bill
• Cold War
• Cole, Nat King
• Cole, USS (destroyer)
• Collazo, Oscar
• Colombia
• Colorado
• “Columbia”
• “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean”
• Columbia Pictures
• Columbia Records
• Columbia University
• Columbus, Christopher
• Comanches
• Coming of Age in Samoa (Mead)
• Commerce Department, U.S.
• communism, collapse of
• Congo
• Congress, U.S.; birthers in; decolonization efforts in; guano deliberations in; Indian Country and; nonvoting representative of Puerto Rico in; Puerto Rican nationalist attack on; standardization policies in; territories under control of; U.S. flag in moon landing required by; during war with Spain; during World War I; during World War II; see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
• Connery, Sean
• Constitution, U.S.; Second Amendment; Thirteenth Amendment; Fourteenth Amendment
• contraceptives; see also birth control pills; sterilization
• Convention on a Uniform System of Road Signs and Signals
• Coolidge, Calvin
• Cooper, James Fenimore
• Cornell University
• Corregidor
• Corregidor (movie)
• Corretjer, Juan Antonio
• Cosmopolitan Clubs
• Costa Rica
• Costello, John
• cotton
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Crane, Stephen
• Crater, The (Cooper)
• Cream
• Creeks
• Creole languages
• Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de
• Crichton, Michael
• Crockett, Davy
• Crosby, Bing
• Cry “Havoc” (movie)
• Cuba; independence of; traffic signs in; war with Spain in
• cultural artifacts; see also titles of movies and songs
• Cumberland Gap
• Cuneiform
• Curtis, Charles
• Czechoslovakia

• Daily Mirror, The
• Dakota Territory
• Danish West Indies
• Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
• Darwin, Charles
• Davao (Philippines)
• Davy, Humphry
• Dawson Creek (British Columbia)
• D-Day
• DDT
• Deadwood (South Dakota)
• Deane, Gen. John
• De Bevoise, Ken
• Declaration of Independence
• Deep Purple
• Deerslayer, The (Cooper)
• deindustrialization
• Delaware
• Delaware Indians
• DeLay, Tom
• Deming, W. Edwards
• Democratic Party; Southern
• Democratic Party of Japan
• Demolins, Edmond
• Deng Xiaoping
• Denmark
• depopulation of Indians
• Detroit
• Dewey, Commodore George
• Dhahran Air Base (Saudi Arabia)
• dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, see DDT
• Diego Garcia
• Dietrich, Marlene
• Discman
• diseases; English settler deaths from; of guano workers; among indigenous polities; of livestock; in wartime; see also specific diseases
• Disneyland
• “Dixie”
• Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
• Doane, Ralph Harrington
• Dobbs, Lou
• Dobyns, Henry F.
• Doctor No (Fleming); movie of (Dr. No)
• Doctor Strangelove (movie)
• Dominican Republic
• Don Juan (Byron)
• Douglas, Stephen
• Dresden
• Drexel Institute
• drones
• Drum, Gen. Hugh
• Du Bois, W.E.B.
• Dulles, Allen
• Dulles, John Foster
• DuPont Corporation
• Durex
• Durrell, Lawrence
• Dust Bowl
• Dutch Empire; East Indies in
• Dylan, Bob
• “Dymaxion map”
• dysentery

• Earhart, Amelia
• Early, Steve
• Eastern Bloc, see Soviet Union
• Eaton Labs
• École des Beaux-Arts
• Economist, The
• Eden, Anthony
• Egypt
• Einstein, Albert
• Eisenhower, Dwight
• El Alamein, Battle of
• Elba
• electronics
• Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (Davis)
• Elks Club (Manila)
• Ellis, Joseph
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo
• Empire Day
• Enewetak Atoll
• England; U.S. nuclear weapons in; see also Britain; London
• English language; alternative lingua francas to; decolonization and native languages versus; globalization of; Native American speakers of; simplified orthographies for; in U.S. territories
• Enlightenment
• Epstein, Brian
• Esperanto
• extraordinary rendition
• Exxon

• Fagen, David
• Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia
• Fairbanks (Alaska)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Federalist Party, Puerto Rican
• Fenn Manufacturing company
• Ferguson, Niall
• fertilizers, nitrogen; see also guano
• Feynman, Richard
• Filipino Democratic Alliance
• Filipinos, see Philippines
• Fillmore, Millard
• Fireball Express
• first-mover advantage
• First World War, see World War I
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott
• Flag Day
• Fleming, Ian
• Flint (Michigan)
• Florida
• flying fortresses, see B-17 bombers
• Flynn, Errol
• Fonetik Crthqgrafi
• Fong, Hiram
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Forbes, Cameron
• Ford, Gerald
• Ford, Henry
• Ford, John
• Ford Motor Company
• Fortune 500 companies
• Fortune magazine
• Fourteen Points
• Fox News
• France; colonies of; Louisiana acquired from; population of; U.S. soldiers in; in World War I; in World War II
• Franklin, Ben
• Freinkel, Susan
• French Indochina
• French language
• Friedman, Andrea
• Friedman, Thomas L.
• From Here to Eternity (movie)
• frontier
• Fuller, Buckminster
• Futenma (Japan)

• Gadsden Purchase
• Gag Law (Puerto Rico)
• Gambia
• Gandhi, Mohandas
• García, Gen. Calixto
• Garrett, Pat
• Gates, Robert
• General Instrument
• General Motors
• Georgetown University
• Georgia
• German language
• Germany; fleet of; Harvard students from; Jews in; post–World War II occupation of; U.S. soldiers’ protest in; Weimar; in World War I; in World War II
• Gestapo
• Ghana
• Ghostbusters (movie)
• Gilded Age
• Giuliani, Rudy
• Glenn, Maj. Edwin F.
• global alphabet
• globalization
• global positioning system (GPS)
• “God Bless America”
• Godzilla (movie)
• Gojira (movie)
• gold
• Goldwater, Barry
• Gómez, Máximo
• Gompers, Samuel
• González Martínez, Isaac
• Goran, Morris
• Göring, Hermann
• Grant, Ulysses S.
• Grayson, William W.
• Great Depression
• Great Dictator, The (movie)
• Greater America Exposition (Omaha, 1899)
• Greater United States maps
• Great Migrations
• Green Grow the Lilacs (Riggs)
• Greenland
• Griffith, D. W.
• Gromyko, Andrei
• Gruening, Dorothy
• Gruening, Ernest; as Alaska governor; in Anti-Imperialist League; Division of Territories and Island Possessions headed by; Puerto Rican independence legislation drafted by
• Guadalcanal
• Guam; annexation of; citizenship for residents of; English language in; during Great Depression; on Greater United States map; Japanese bombing of; mainland indifference toward; nuclear weapons in; population of; racism toward people of; University of; U.S. bases on; U.S. soldiers’ protest on; in World War II
• guano; on islands claimed by United States
• Guano Islands Act (1856)
• Guantánamo Bay
• Guatemala
• “Guerra Chiquita” (Cuba, 1879–80)
• guerrilla warfare; during Japanese occupation of Philippines in World War II; against Soviet Union in Afghanistan
• Guimaras Island
• Gulf War
• Gullah
• Gunther, John
• Gutiérrez Igaravídez, Pedro

• Haber, Clara, see Immerwahr, Clara
• Haber, Fritz
• “Hail, Columbia”
• “Hail to the Chief”
• Haiti
• Hammerstein, Oscar
• Hannity, Sean
• Hansell, John M.
• Harding, Warren G.
• Harrisburg (Pennsylvania)
• Harrison, Benjamin
• Harrison, George
• Harrison, Richard Edes
• Harrison, William Henry
• Harvard Crimson, The
• Harvard University; foreign students at
• Hatoyama, Yukio
• Hawai‘i; annexation of; English language in; on Greater United States map; Kamehameha Schools in; mainland indifference toward; nuclear weapons in; population of; statehood of; sugar plantations in; University of; war plans for; during World War II (see also Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombing of)
• H-bomb, see nuclear weapons
• Heathrow Airport
• Hebrew
• Hebrew University
• Hemingway, Ernest
• Hendrix, Jimi
• Hersey, John
• Heurlin, Magnus Colcord (“Rusty”)
• Hezbollah
• Hickok, Wild Bill
• Himalayas
• Hinckley, John
• Hindi
• Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
• Hiroshima
• History of the American People, The (Wilson)
• Hitler, Adolf
• Hoar, George Frisbie
• Ho Chi Minh (Thanh, Nguyen Tat)
• Hoffmann-La Roche
• Holborn, Hajo
• Hollandia
• Holly, Buddy
• Hollywood
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell
• Holocaust
• Holtom, Gerald
• Honda
• Honda, Ishirō
• Honduras
• Hong Kong; Japanese attack on
• Honolulu (Hawai‘i); Provost Court of; U.S. soldiers’ protest in
• Honolulu Advertiser, The
• hookworm
• Hoover, Herbert
• Hoover, J. Edgar
• Hoover, Lou
• Hope, Bob
• House of Representatives, U.S.; Committee on Resources
• Howells, William Dean
• Howland Island
• Hudson, Linda S.
• Hughes, Langston
• Hugo, Victor
• Hukbalahap guerrilla army
• Human Rights Watch
• Hume, David
• Hungary
• Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (Roosevelt)
• Hurricane Harvey
• Hurricane Irma
• Hurricane Maria
• Hussein, Saddam

• Ibuka, Masaru
• Iceland
• Ickes, Harold
• If Japan Can, Why Can’t We? (documentary)
• IG Farben
• Igorot people
• “I Hear America Singing” (Whitman)
• Illinois
• Immerwahr, Clara
• Immerwahr, Max
• immigration
• imperialism; antagonism toward, see anti-imperialism; decline of; English language and; of Theodore Roosevelt; U.S. soldiers’ protest against; white supremacy and; during World War II
• India; corridor between China and; English language in; independence of; National Army of; population of; sterilization in; U.S. soldiers’ protest in
• Indiana, USS (battleship)
• Indian National Congress
• Indians/Native Americans; in Alaska; Boone and; census of; dispossession and removal of; Europeanization of; at Greater America Exposition; languages of; recruited to Rough Riders; Teddy Roosevelt’s views on settlers versus; U.S. wars against; see also specific polities
• Indochina
• Indonesia
• industrialization; of Japan; raw materials required for; of warfare
• Industrial Revolution
• Influence of Sea Power on History, The (Mahan)
• infrastructure; military; in territories; in U.S. internment camps
• Inouye, Daniel
• Insular Cases
• Inter-African Bureau of Languages
• Interior, U.S. Department of; Division of Territories and Island Possessions; Fish and Wildlife Service
• Interlingua
• International Dog-Shoe-Face Incident
• internationalists
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• International Polity Club
• Inughuit
• Iran
• Iran-Contra affair
• Iraq; Kuwait invaded by; Gulf War against
• Iraq War
• Islamism
• Island of Doctor Moreau, The (Wells)
• Island Records
• Israel
• Italian language
• Italy
• Iwabuchi Sanji, Adm.
• Iwo Jima

• Jacinto, Gen. Emilio
• Jackson, Andrew
• Jakarta (Indonesia)
• Jamaica
• James Bond books (Fleming)
• Jamestown Exposition
• Jamestown settlement
• Japan; distance from Aleutian Islands to; economic growth in; during Great Depression; Manchuria invaded by; naval academy of; post–World War II occupation of; radiation from Bikini nuclear test found in; surrender of; traffic signs in; U.S. military bases in; in World War II; “zonification” in Philippines by
• Japanese Americans
• Japan That Can Say No, The (Morita and Ishihara)
• Jarvis Islands
• Java coding language
• Jay, John
• Jayuya (Puerto Rico)
• Jeddah
• Jefferson, Thomas
• Jews
• jihad
• Jim Crow segregation
• Jimenez de Syquia, Concepcion
• Johns Hopkins University Medical School
• Johnson, Andrew
• Johnson, Lyndon Baines
• Johnson & Johnson
• Johnston Island
• Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Jordan
• Journal of American History, The
• Journal of the American Medical Association
• Juda, King of Bikini Marshallese
• JVC

• Kaho‘olawe (Hawai‘i)
• Kalamazoo (Michigan)
• Kanakas
• Kandahar (Afghanistan)
• Kansas; territory of
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Karate Kid, The (movie)
• Katz, Jay
• Kawasaki
• Kaws
• Kearsage, USS (warship)
• Kennedy, Anthony
• Kennedy, John F.
• Kentucky
• Kenya
• Kettle Hill, Battle of
• Khobar (Saudi Arabia)
• Kichais
• Kickapoos
• Kim (Kipling)
• King, Ernest
• King, Martin Luther, Jr.
• King, Walter W.
• King Kong (movie)
• Kingston (Jamaica)
• Kiowas
• Kipling, Rudyard
• Kirin brewery
• Kiska (Aleutian Islands)
• Kissinger, Henry
• Koo-wi-s-gu-wi, see John Ross
• Korea; Harvard students from; post–World War II occupation of; U.S. soldiers’ protest in
• Korean War
• Koza (Okinawa)
• Kroeber, Alfred L.
• Kubrick, Stanley
• Ku Klux Klan
• Kunming (China)
• Kurosawa, Akira
• Kuwait
• Kwajalein
• Kyan, Yukio
• Kyrgyzstan

• Lakotas
• Lancaster, Burt
• Lansing (Michigan)
• Lanteen Medical Laboratories
• Lao Issara
• Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper)
• Latin
• Latin America; private invasions of republics of; see also specific colonies, nations, and regions
• Laurel, Jose
• Laurents, Arthur
• League of Nations
• Leatherstocking novels (Cooper)
• Lebrón, Lolita
• Led Zeppelin
• Lenin, V. I.
• Lennon, John
• Lennon, Julia
• Leopold II, King of Belgium
• Levi, Primo
• Levittown (Puerto Rico)
• Lewinsky, Monica
• Leyte (Philippines)
• Liberal Party, Puerto Rican
• Liberia
• Library of Congress
• Libya
• Lies My Teacher Told Me (Loewen)
• Life magazine
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Little House on the Prairie (Wilder)
• Live and Let Die (movie)
• Liverpool (England)
• Li Yang
• Lobos Islands
• Loewen, James
• logistics
• logo maps
• London; antinuclear protest in; standards coordinating committee in
• London Times, The
• Long, John D.
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
• Looking Backward (Bellamy)
• Los Negros
• Louisiana
• Louisiana Purchase
• Luce, Clare Boothe
• Lucky Dragon (fishing boat)
• Luftwaffe
• Luna, Gen. Antonio
• Luzon

• MacArthur, Arthur, IV
• MacArthur, Gen. Arthur
• MacArthur, Gen. Douglas; Japanese bombing of Army Air Force unit of; occupation of Japan commanded by; personal attachment to Philippines of; in World War II
• MacArthur, Jean
• MacLeish, Archibald
• Mahan, Capt. Alfred Thayer
• Maine
• Maine, USS (warship)
• malaria; drugs for treating
• Malay
• Malaya; People’s Anti-Japanese Army in
• Malaysia
• Malcolm X
• Malta
• Malthus, Thomas
• Malthusianism
• Malvar, Gen. Miguel
• Manchester, William
• Manchuria
• Mandarin Chinese
• Manela, Erez
• Manifest Destiny
• Manila; Battle of; Great Fire in; rebuilding of; sack of; Tagalog language of; U.S. soldiers’ protest in; during World War II
• Manila Calling (movie)
• Manila Hotel
• Manus
• Man with the Golden Gun, The (movie)
• Mao Zedong
• maps of United States, see Greater United States maps; logo maps
• March First Movement
• Marianas
• Marine Corps, U.S.
• Marley, Bob
• Marshall, Gen. George
• Marshall Islands; Republic of
• Marston, Maj. Marvin
• Martin, George
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• massacres; in Philippines
• Mayo, Katherine
• Mazda
• McAuliffe, Dennis, Jr.
• McCain, John
• McCartney, Paul
• McCormick, Katharine Dexter
• McDonald’s restaurants
• McKinley, William; assassination of; reelection of; during war with Spain
• McLaughlin, Donal
• McNutt, Paul
• Mead, Margaret
• measles
• medical experiments
• Medicare and Medicaid
• Melville, Herman
• Memorial Hospital (New York)
• Mercator projection maps
• Merseyside (England)
• metric system
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
• Mexican Americans
• Mexican War
• Mexico
• Mexico City
• Miami (Florida)
• Miamis
• Michigan; University of
• Micronesia; Federated States of; strategic trust territory in, see Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
• Middle East; rebellion against empire in; see also specific colonies, nations, and regions
• Midway Island
• military bases; al-Qaeda; Japanese; see also U.S. overseas bases
• Miller, Orville H.
• Mills, C. Wright
• Mindanao
• Misérables, Les (Hugo)
• missiles
• mission-style architecture
• Mississippi River
• Missouri, USS (battleship)
• Missouri Territory
• Mitsubishi
• Mobil
• Modern Language Institute
• Modern Plastics
• Modocs
• Mojares, Resil
• Molina, Antonio
• Mongolia
• Monroe, James
• Monsanto
• Montana Territory
• Montgomery, Robert
• moon landing
• Morales, Carlos
• Morgan, J. P.
• Morita, Akio
• Morocco
• Moros
• Morrison, Van
• Morse, Samuel
• Moses, Robert
• Mother America (Romulo)
• mujahidin
• Munich (Germany)
• Muñoz Marín, Luis
• Münsterberg, Hugo
• Muslims
• mustard gas
• Myanmar
• My Brother Americans (Romulo)
• “My Country ’Tis of Thee” (Smith)

• Nairobi (Kenya)
• Napoleon, Emperor of France
• NASA
• Natchez, Le (Chateaubriand)
• Nation, The
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Air and Space Museum
• National Archives, U.S.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Bureau of Standards, U.S.
• National Cancer Institute
• National City Bank
• National Guard; of Alaska
• Nationalist Party: of Philippines; of Puerto Rico
• nationalists; Filipino; Japanese; Puerto Rican; in Third World
• National Screw Thread Commission, U.S.
• Native Americans, see Indians/Native Americans
• Natividad, LisaLinda
• Naval War College
• Navarro Salanga, Alfrredo
• Navassa Island
• Navy, U.S.; nuclear weapon tests organized by; overseas bases for; in World War II; see also names of ships
• Nazis
• NBC
• Nebraska Territory
• New Deal
• New England; see also specific cities and states
• Newfoundland
• New Guinea; Papua New Guinea
• New Jersey
• New Mexico; annexation of
• New Orleans
• Newsweek
• New York Academy of Medicine
• New York City; aristocracy of; Japanese-owned property in; 9/11 terrorist attack on; Puerto Ricans in; Robert Moses’s political power in; Spanish-language newspaper in; standards coordinating committee in
• New York Daily News
• New York Journal-American
• New York State
• New York Times, The
• New Zealand
• Nez Perces
• Ngugi, James (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o)
• Nicaragua
• Nigeria
• Nikon
• Nimitz, Adm. Chester
• 9/11 terrorist attacks; report of commission on
• 1984 (Orwell)
• Nintendo
• Nissan
• nitrogen
• Nixon, Richard
• Nobel Prize
• Noriel, Gen. Mariano
• Normandy invasion (D-Day)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• North Carolina
• Northern Mariana Islands; Commonwealth of
• North Korea
• Northwestern University
• Northwest Ordinance (1787)
• Northwest Territory
• Nostrand, Richard L.
• nuclear weapons; opposition to
• Nue Spelling
• Nukufetau
• Nuremberg (Germany)

• O‘ahu (Hawai‘i)
• Obama, Barack
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• Odawas
• Office of Strategic Services
• Ohio River
• oil; Middle Eastern; synthetics made from
• Ojibwe
• Okinawa
• Oklahoma; territory of
• Oklahoma! (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
• Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr.
• Omaha (Nebraska)
• “1 Wrld Langwij”
• On the Waterfront (movie)
• Operation Desert Storm
• Operation Infinite Reach
• Oregon
• Oregon, USS (warship)
• Organization of African Unity
• Orwell, George
• Osages
• Osawa, Kiyoshi
• Osmeña, Sergio
• O’Sullivan, John L.
• Ottoman Empire
• Outer Space Treaty (1967)
• Outlook, The
• overpopulation
• Owen, Robert Latham
• Oxford University

• Pacific Fleet, U.S.
• pacifism
• Packard
• Page, Walter Hines
• Pakistan
• Palau; Republic of
• Palawan
• Palestine
• Palin, Sarah
• Palin, Todd
• Palma, Jose
• Palma, Rafael
• Palomares (Spain)
• Panama
• Panama Canal Zone
• Pan-American Freedom League
• Panasonic
• Papua New Guinea
• Paris; Treaty of
• Paris Peace Conference
• Parsons, William E.
• Partido Popular Democrático (PPD)
• Patuxet
• Pauquunaukit Wampanoag
• Pawnees
• Peace Corps
• peace symbol
• Pearl Harbor (movie)
• Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombing of; simultaneous attacks at time of
• Penn, Mark
• Pennsylvania; Academy of Fine Arts; crash of 9/11 hijacked plane in
• Pentagon; 9/11 attack on
• People’s History of American Empire, A (Zinn)
• People’s History of the United States, A (Zinn)
• Peorias
• Pérez González, Carmen María
• Pershing, Gen. John J.
• Persian Gulf; see also specific colonies and nations
• Peruvian guano
• Peshawar (Pakistan)
• petroleum, see oil
• Philadelphia
• Philadelphische Zeitung, Die
• Philbin, Patrick
• Philippine General Hospital (Manila)
• Philippines; annexation of; Army of Liberation of; citizenship of residents of; demands for statehood of; English language in; on Greater United States map; impact on American products of climate of; independence of; Japanese bombing of; laborers in United States from; legislature of; MacArthur’s personal attachment to; mainland indifference toward; National Council of Education in; nuclear weapons in; nursing in; population of; rebellions in; revolution in; summer capital of; supporters of statehood for; Supreme Court of; University of; during war with Spain; during World War I; during World War II; see also specific municipalities and regions
• Philippine War
• Phillipson, Robert
• Pierce, Franklin
• “Pike’s Peak” (Bates)
• Pilar, Gen. Gregorio del
• Pilgrims
• Pincus, Gregory
• Piñero, Jesús T.
• Pink Floyd
• Pioneers, The (Cooper)
• Planned Parenthood
• plastic
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Pletnikoff, Simeon
• plexiglass
• Poindexter, Joseph
• poison gas
• Poland
• Polynesians
• Pomos
• Poncas
• Ponce (Puerto Rico)
• Popular Mechanics
• population(s); disease carrying; excess, see overpopulation; growth of; of Native Americans, decline in; of post–World War II occupations; of Spanish colonies; statehood and; of U.S. territories during World War II; see also censuses
• Potawatomis
• Pound, Ezra
• Powell, Colin
• Predator drones
• Prensa, La
• Presley, Elvis
• Pribilof Islands
• Princeton University
• Prix de Rome
• Progressive Era
• prostitution
• Public Roads, U.S. Bureau of
• Puerto Rico; annexation of; chemical weapons tests on residents of; citizenship of residents of; “commonwealth” status of; constitution of; demands for statehood of; disease in; Division of Territories and Island Possessions in charge of; English language in; governors of; on Greater United States map; hurricanes in; independence movement in; industrialization of; mainland indifference toward; medical experiments in; migration to mainland from; National Guard of; nationalism in; nuclear weapons in; population of; rebellion in; slums in; in Spanish Empire; sterilization of women in; sugar plantations in; supporters of statehood for; University of; during war with Spain; during World War II
• Pulitzer Prize
• Python coding language

• Quakers
• quality control
• Quapaws
• Quezon, Manuel
• Quezon City (Philippines)
• Quincy, Josiah
• Quirino, Elpidio, and family
• Qutb, Sayyid
• QWERTY keyboard

• Radio Free Europe
• Radio Liberation (later Liberty)
• railroads
• Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (Roosevelt)
• Rand McNally
• Rangoon (Burma)
• Rankin, Bill
• Ready Reference Atlas of the World
• Réard, Louis
• reconcentration
• Recto, Claro
• Red Cross
• Reischauer, Edwin
• rendition, extraordinary
• Republican Party; Puerto Rican
• Revolutionary War
• Rhoads, Cornelius Packard (“Dusty”)
• Rhodes, Cecil
• Rhodesia
• Ricarte, Gen. Artemio
• Richards, I. A.
• Ridge, John
• Riggs, E. Francis
• Riggs, Lynn
• rinderpest
• Río Piedras (Puerto Rico)
• Rising Sun (Crichton)
• Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
• Rizal, Jose
• Rock, John
• Rockefeller, John D.
• Rockefeller Center (New York)
• Rockefeller Foundation; Anemia Commission; International Health Division
• Rockefeller Institute
• Rockies
• Rodgers, Richard
• Rolling Stones
• Romania
• Romantics
• Rommel, F.M. Erwin
• Romulo, Carlos
• Rongerik Atoll
• Roosevelt, Eleanor
• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; colonies during administration of; “Infamy” speech of; during World War II
• Roosevelt, Theodore (“Teddy” or “Thee”); as assistant secretary of the navy; family background of; foreign-language fluency of; frontier enthusiasm of; at Harvard; imperialism of; Panama Canal and; Philippine independence advocated by; during Philippine War; in war with Spain
• Root, Elihu
• Rosin, Jacob
• Ross, John
• Rough Riders
• Roxas, Manuel
• rubber; synthetic
• Rumsfeld, Donald
• Russia; Bolshevik revolution in
• Russian language
• Rwanda

• Sacs and Foxes
• Saigon
• St. Clair, Arthur
• St. Louis World’s Fair
• Saipan
• Salute to the Marines (movie)
• Samar
• Samoa; see also American Samoa
• Samoset
• San Antonio (Texas)
• Sand Creek Massacre
• San Francisco
• San Francisco Chronicle
• Sanger, Margaret
• San José Island, chemical weapons testing on
• San Juan (Puerto Rico); slum in
• San Juan Heights, Battle of
• Santiago de Cuba, siege of
• Sanyo
• Saudi Arabia
• Schwarzkopf, Gen. Norman
• Science
• Scotland
• screw threads, standardization of
• Seabees
• Sea Islands
• Searle Pharmaceuticals
• Seattle (Washington)
• Second World War, see World War II
• Secret Service
• segregation; of census; informational, between colonies and mainland
• Sein y Sein, Francisco
• Selective Service
• Seminoles
• Senate, U.S.; Foreign Relations Committee; Indian Affairs Committee; Intelligence Committee
• Senecas
• Senegal
• September 11 attacks, see 9/11 terrorist attacks
• Sequoyah (person)
• Sequoyah (proposed state)
• settlers, see westward expansion
• Seward, William Henry
• sex work, see prostitution
• Shaw, George Bernard
• Shawnees
• Sherman tanks
• Shimla (India)
• Siemens-Schuckert planes
• Silliman University
• Simon and Garfunkel
• Singapore
• Sinhala
• Sioux
• Sirota, Beate
• Skyfall (movie)
• slavery; westward expansion of
• Slim, Carlos
• Slipchenko, Vladimir
• Sloan, Alfred P.
• Sloan Kettering Institute
• Slossen, Edwin E.
• smallpox
• Smith, Adam
• Smith, Gen. Jacob
• Smith, Larry
• Smith, Samuel F.
• Smuts, Jan
• Snipes, Wesley
• Solidarity movement
• Solomon Islands
• Somalia
• Somewhere I’ll Find You (movie)
• Sondheim, Stephen
• Sony (formerly Totsuko, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo)
• Soong, T. V.
• So Proudly We Hail (movie)
• South Africa
• South America; see also specific colonies and nations
• South Carolina
• Southeast Asia
• South Korea
• Soviet Union; Afghanistan incursion of; dismantling of; English language banned in; German occupation zones controlled by; in International Organization for Standardization; nuclear arms race with; U.S. radio broadcasts into; in World War II
• Spain
• Spanish-American War, see war with Spain
• Spanish Empire, fall of; see also war with Spain
• Spanish flu pandemic
• Spanish language; Filipino nursing codes in; worldwide native speakers of
• Sparrow, James T.
• Spitz, Bob
• Springsteen, Bruce
• Spurlock, Fred
• Spy Who Loved Me, The (movie)
• Squanto (Tisquantum)
• Sri Lanka
• Stalin, Joseph
• standardization; of architecture; of aviation; of language (see also English language); military
• Standard Oil
• Stanford University
• Starr, Ringo
• “Stars and Stripes Forever”
• “Star-Spangled Banner, The”
• Star Wars (movie franchise)
• State Department, U.S.
• Stephenson, Neal
• Stevenson, Adlai
• Stewart, Jon
• Stiles, Charles Wardell
• Stimson, Henry
• stop sign, standardization of, see traffic lights and signs, standardization of
• Styler, Lt. Gen. W. D.
• Subaru
• Sudan
• Suez Canal
• Sukarno
• Sullivan, Louis
• Sullivan County (Indiana)
• Sultan, Prince of Saudi Arabia
• Sulu Archipelago
• Sumner, Charles
• Sun Yat-sen
• Supreme Court, U.S.; Insular Cases decided by
• Swahili
• Swan Islands
• sweatshops
• Sweden
• synthetics; medical; for nitrogen fertilizers
• Syria

• Taft, Nellie
• Taft, William Howard
• Tagalog
• Taiwan
• Taliban
• Tanaka, Tomoyuki
• Tanzania
• tape recorders
• tariffs
• Tawakonis
• Taylor, Zachary
• tear gas
• technologies; Japanese; military (see also chemical weapons; nuclear weapons); standardization and; see also medical experiments, synthetics
• Telmex
• Tennessee
• Ten Years’ War (Cuba, 1868–78)
• terrorism
• Texaco
• Texas; annexation of
• Texas to Bataan (movie)
• Thailand
• Thanh, Nguyen Tat, see Ho Chi Minh
• “That’ll Be the Day” (Holly)
• They Were Expendable (White); movie of
• Third World; see also specific continents, nations, and regions
• Thor missiles
• Thornton, Russell
• Thule (Greenland)
• Thunderball (movie)
• Thurmond, Strom
• Tillman, Ben (“Pitchfork”)
• Time magazine
• Tinian
• Tinio, Gen. Manuel
• Tisquantum, see Squanto
• Tlingit
• Tokyo
• Tomahawk missiles
• Tom Sawyer (Twain)
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• Toots and the Maytals
• Tora Bora (Afghanistan)
• Torresola, Doris
• Torresola, Griselio
• torture
• Tosh, Peter
• Toshiba
• Total Quality Management movement
• Totsuko (Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo), see Sony
• Toyota
• traffic lights and signs, standardization of
• Trail of Tears
• transcontinental railroad
• transistor radios
• Treasure Island (Stevenson)
• Treasury, U.S. Department of the
• Trinidad
• Truman, Harry; assassination attempt on; Philippine independence approved by; protests against postwar military policy of
• Trump, Donald
• Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
• tuberculosis
• Tugwell, Rexford
• Tunisia
• Tunner, Gen. William H. (“Tonnage”)
• Turin, University of
• Turner, Frederick Jackson
• Tutuila (American Samoa)
• Twain, Mark
• 12 Angry Men (movie)
• Tydings, Millard
• typhus

• U-boats
• Ukraine
• Union Carbide
• United Kingdom, see Britain; British Empire
• United Nations; General Assembly; in Korean War; logo of; U.S. reports on “non-self-governing territories” required by
• United States Magazine and Democratic Review
• Uruguay
• U.S. overseas bases; in Africa; for air attacks on Japan; on Aleutian Islands; for Berlin airlift; in British territories; on Caribbean islands; on Cuba (see also Guantánamo Bay); drones launched from; in Eastern Europe; in England; English language spread from; of “Fireball Express” route; on Guam; in Iraq; in Japan; Japanese bombing of, see Pearl Harbor; on Micronesian islands; nuclear weapons on; on Okinawa; in Operation Desert Storm; in Panama; in Philippines; in Puerto Rico; in Saudi Arabia; technology for
• USSR, see Soviet Union
• U.S. Virgin Islands; annexation of; in Greater United States map; limitations on citizenship in; military bases in; population of
• Utah
• U Thant
• Utuado (Puerto Rico)
• Uzbekistan

• Vancouver
• Van Vleck, Jenifer
• Vatican
• VCR
• Vermont; University of
• Versailles, Treaty of
• VHS
• Victoria, Queen of England
• Victorian age
• Vieques (Puerto Rico)
• Viet Minh
• Vietnam
• Vietnam War
• View, The (television show)
• Vilar, Irene
• Villadolid, Oscar
• Virginia
• Viton, Albert
• Voice of America
• Voice of Freedom
• Voice of the Arabs
• Voting Rights Act (1965)

• Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago
• Wacos
• Wafd Party
• Wake Island
• Walesa, Lech
• Walker, William
• Walkman
• Wallace, Henry
• Wallace, Henry A.
• Wallace, Henry C.
• Wall Street Journal, The
• War Department, U.S.; War Plans Division
• Waring, E. J.
• war on terror
• warplanes, see specific planes
• War Production Board, Civilian Supply Division
• Warsaw
• war with Spain; annexations in aftermath of; events leading to
• Washington, D.C.; attempted assassination of Truman in; 9/11 terrorist attack on; projection of effect of H-bomb detonation over; protest by U.S. soldiers in; standards development efforts in
• Washington, George
• Washington, Lund
• Washington Post, The
• Washington Times-Herald
• waterboarding; “water cure” precursor of
• Wayne, John
• Webster, Daniel
• Wehrmacht
• weights and measures, standardization of; see also metric system
• Weimar Germany
• Welles, Sumner
• Wells, H. G.
• Wenner-Gren, Axel
• Western Michigan College Training School
• Western Territory
• West Germany
• West Side Story (musical)
• westward expansion; founders’ views on; into Indian lands; see also frontier
• Whiskey Rebellion
• Whispers, the
• White, W. L.
• White Man’s Burden; Kipling’s poem about
• white supremacy
• Whitman, Walt
• Who, the
• Wichitas
• Wilder, Laura Ingalls
• Wilderness Hunter, The (Roosevelt)
• Wilhelm II, Kaiser
• Wilmington
• Wilson, Beckles
• Wilson, Woodrow
• Winfrey, Oprah
• Winning of the West, The (Roosevelt)
• Wisconsin
• Wister, Owen
• Wolfowitz, Paul
• Wollstonecraft, Mary
• Woman Descending Stairway (Arellano)
• Wood, Gen. Leonard
• Worcester (Massachusetts)
• World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893)
• World Trade Center, 9/11 attack on
• World War I; American Expeditionary Forces in; nitrate explosives in; peace treaty negotiations after; poison gas in; standards clashes in; U.S entry into
• World War II; aviation in; chemical warfare in; communications systems in; disease in; end of; engineering innovations in; intelligence in; language training during; overseas bases during; standardization process in; synthetics developed during; U.S. Army and Navy joint exercise in preparation for; U.S. entry into (see also Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombing of); U.S. servicemen in Britain during
• Wounded Knee, Battle of
• Wyandots

• Yale University
• Yalta Conference
• Yamashita Tomoyuki, Gen.
• “Yankee Doodle”
• Yemen
• YMCA (Manila)
• Yojimbo (movie)
• Yoo, John
• Young America Movement
• Young Savages, The (movie)
• Youngs Rubber
• You Only Live Twice (movie)
• Ypres, Battle of
• Yugoslavia
• Yup’ik

• Zaghlul, Sa‘d
• Zamboanga (Philippines)
• Zinn, Howard
• zonification
• Zyklon gas