Declaration of Independence (1776) 67
Destroyers for Bases Agreement 75, 78
early settlers and explorers 70–71
energy resources 82–83, 247
French territory 68–69
Homestead Act 72
Iran and 169
Israel and 83
Japan and 74, 81, 227
Korea and 217–219, 222
Latin America and 244, 249 (see also under Mexico)
military forces 65–66, 70, 75, 80–81, 102, 131, 158, 231 (see also NATO; Navy and naval bases)
Monroe doctrine 70, 250
Native Americans 239
Navy and naval bases 50, 72, 73, 78, 79, 81, 83, 158, 247
Russia/Soviet Union and 75–77, 80, 276
space programme 282
War of Independence 67
War on Drugs 244, 245
War on Terror/Afghanistan 197, 244
Ural Mountains 4–6, 8–10, 23, 93
Uruguay 251, 252, 254, 256
USS Kitty Hawk 34
USSR see Russia/Soviet Union
Uzbekistan 13
V
Vaca Muerta ‘Dead Cow’ 257, 259
Venezuela 29, 238, 239, 241, 247, 249, 251, 253, 254, 256
Vietnam 13, 41–42, 55, 76, 78, 81, 206
von Bismarck, Otto 86, 99
W
Wang Jing 247–248
War of the Pacific (1879) 240
Warsaw Pact 6, 7, 13, 98
Washington, George 74
West Bank 152, 163, 165–167
Western Europe 17, 27, 87–111, 116, 174
see also European Union (EU); individual countries by name
X
Y
Yangzte River 35. 37, 43
Yanukovych, Viktor 15–16, 104
Yellow River 35, 37, 43
Yellow Sea 41, 52
Yemen 145, 162
Yuan dynasty, Mongol 37
Z
Zagros Mountains 168–169
Zambezi River 119, 120
Zambia 125, 132–134, 137
Zheng He 50
Zhirinovsky, Vladimir 12
Zhou Enlai 49
Zimbabwe 122, 125, 137
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than twenty-five years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from thirty countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. His blog Foreign Matters was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2010.
He has written for newspapers including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Independent and Daily Telegraph, and is the author of Shadowplay: The Overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic (a bestseller in former Yugoslavia) and “Dirty Northern B*st*rds!” and Other Tales from the Terraces: The Story of Britain’s Football Chants. He is the founder and editor of TheWhatandtheWhy.com.
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