Preface -- Table of contents -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- A -- Abacha, Sani (1943-1998) -- Abbas, Ferhat (1899-1985) -- Abd al-Karim (1880-1963) -- also known as Abd al-Karim el-Khettabi, -- abdication crisis -- Abdullah, ibn Abdul Aziz al-Saud (1924- ) -- Abdullah, Sheikh Muhammad (1905-1982) -- Abdullah ibn Hussein (1882-1951) -- Abdullah ibn Hussein (1962- ) -- Abernathy, Ralph D (1926-1990) -- Abiola, Moshood Kastumawo (1937-1998) -- Abkhazia (or Abkhaziya) -- Abu Nidal (1934-2002) -- also known as Sabri Khalil al-Banna, -- Acheampong, Ignatius Kutu (1931-1979) -- Acheson, Dean (Gooderham) (1893-1971) -- Adams, Gerry (1948- ) -- born Gerard Adams, -- Addams, Jane (1860-1935) -- Aden -- Arabic 'Adan, -- history -- Adenauer, Konrad (1876-1967) -- Admin Box, Battle of the -- Admiralty, Board of the -- Advisory, Conciliation, and Arbitration Service -- ACAS, -- Adwa, Battle of -- affirmative action, USA -- 'Aflaq, Michel (1910-1989) -- African National Congress -- ANC, -- African nationalism -- African Union -- AU -- formerly Organization of African Unity (1963-2001), -- Africa, the scramble for -- Bismarck intervenes -- Afrika Korps -- Agadir Incident -- or the Second Moroccan Crisis, -- Aga Khan III (1877-1957) -- also known as Sir Sultan Muhammad Aga Khan, -- agitprop -- (Russian 'agitation propaganda') -- Agnew, Spiro (Theodore) (1918-1996) -- Aguinaldo, Emilio (1869-1964) -- Aguiyi-Ironsi, Johnson (1925-1966) -- Ahern, Bertie (1951- ) -- Ahidjo, Ahmadou (1924-1989) -- Aidid, Muhammad Farah (1936-1996) -- Aisne, Battles of -- 12-20 September 1914 -- 16 April-20 May 1917 -- 27 May-18 June 1918 -- Akihito (1933- ) -- Akko -- formerly Acre -- New Testament Ptolemais, -- Alamein, El, battles of -- Alanbrooke, Alan Francis Brooke (1883-1963).

1st Viscount Alanbrooke, -- Albert I (1875-1934) -- Albright, Madeleine (1937- ) -- Alcalá Zamora y Torres, Niceto (1877-1949) -- Alcock, John William (1892-1919) -- Alekseev, Mikhail Vasilievich (1857-1918) -- Alessandri Palma, Arturo (1868-1950) -- Alexander (1893-1920) -- Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George (1891-1969) -- 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, -- Alexander I, Karageorgevich (1888-1934) -- Alexandra (1936- ) -- Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918) -- Alexeyev, Mikhail (1855-1918) -- Alfonsín Foulkes, Raúl Ricardo (1927- ) -- Alfonso XIII (1886-1941) -- Algeciras Conference -- Algiers, Battle of -- Ali, (Chaudri) Muhammad (1905-1980) -- Ali, Maulana Muhammad (1878-1931) -- Ali, Maulana Shaukat (1873-1938) -- Ali, Tariq (1943- ) -- Alia, Ramiz (1925- ) -- Aliyev, Geidar Alirza (1923-2003) -- Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman (1861-1936) -- 1st Viscount Allenby, -- Allende (Gossens), Salvador (1908-1973) -- Alliance for Progress -- Allies, the -- Alpini -- Altmark incident -- Amado, Jorge (1912-2001) -- Amal -- Amanullah Khan (1892-1960) -- Amato, Giuliano (1938- ) -- Ambrose, Stephen (1936-2002) -- American Expeditionary Force -- AEF, -- American Legion -- Amethyst Incident -- Amin (Dada), Idi (1925-2003) -- Amnesty International -- Amritsar Massacre -- or Jallianwalah Bagh massacre, -- Anastasia (1901-1918) -- Ancre, Battle of the -- Andean Group -- Spanish Grupo Andino, -- Anders, Wladyslaw (1892-1970) -- Andreotti, Giulio (1919- ) -- Andrew, Andrew Albert Christian Edward (1960- ) -- Andropov, Yuri (1914-1984) -- Angels of Mons -- Anglo-Irish Agreement -- or Hillsborough Agreement, -- Anglo-Irish Treaty -- Anglo-Irish War -- or the War of Independence, -- Annales school -- or total history, -- Annam -- Annan, Kofi (1938- ) -- Anne, Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise (1950- ) -- Anschluss -- (German 'union') -- Antarctic Treaty -- Anti-Comintern Pact.

or Anti-Communist Pact, -- Antonescu, Ion (1886-1946) -- Anzac -- acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, -- Anzac Cove -- Anzio, Battle of -- ANZUS -- Aosta, Duke Amadeo (1898-1942) -- apartheid -- (Afrikaans 'apartness') -- apartheid policies -- opposition to apartheid -- uprisings -- appeasement -- Aquino, (Maria) Corazon (1933- ) -- called 'Cory' -- born Maria Corazon Conjuangco, -- Arab-Israeli Wars -- first Arab-Israeli War -- second Arab-Israeli War -- third Arab-Israeli War, the Six-Day War -- fourth Arab-Israeli War, the October War or Yom Kippur War -- fifth Arab-Israeli War -- events in the 1990s -- Arab League -- or League of Arab States, -- Arafat, Yassir (1929-2004) -- born Muhammad Yassir Abdul-Ra'ouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Husseini, -- Arakan -- or Rakhine, -- Arbenz Guzmán, Jácobo (1913-1971) -- Archangel, Expedition to -- Arctic convoys -- Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975) -- Arens, Moshe (1925- ) -- Arevalo Bermejo, Juan José (1904-1990) -- Arias Navarro, Carlos (1908-1989) -- Arias Sanchez, Oscar (1940- ) -- Aristide, Jean-Bertrand (1953- ) -- aristocracy -- (Greek aristos 'best', kratos 'power') -- Armenian massacres -- armistice -- Armistice Day -- arms trade -- scale of arms trade -- statistical trends in the late 1990s -- Arnhem, Battle of -- Arras, Battle of -- Asanuma, Inejiro (1898-1960) -- Ashdown, Paddy (Jeremy John Durham) (1941- ) -- Asquith, Herbert Henry (1852-1928) -- 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, -- Assad, Hafez al (1930-2000) -- Association of South East Asian Nations -- ASEAN, -- Astor, Nancy (1879-1964) -- born Nancy Witcher Langhorne, -- Astor, Waldorf, 2nd Viscount Astor of Cliveden (1879-1952) -- Atatürk, Kemal (1881-1938) -- born Mustafa Kemal Pasha, -- (Turkish 'Father of the Turks') -- Atlantic, Battle of the -- Atlantic Charter -- Attlee, Clement (Richard) (1883-1967) -- 1st Earl Attlee,.

Auchinleck, Claude John Eyre (1884-1981) -- called 'the Auk', -- Aung San (1916-1947) -- Auriol, Vincent (1884-1966) -- Auschwitz -- Polish Oswiecim, -- Ausgleich -- Austro-Hungarian Empire -- Axis -- Ayub Khan, Muhammad (1907-1974) -- Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam (1888-1958) -- Azaña, Manuel (1880-1940) -- Azcona del Hoyo, José Simon (1927- ) -- Azhari, Ismail (1902-1969) -- Azikiwe, Nnamdi (1904-1996) -- Aziz, Tariq (1936- ) -- born Mikhail Yuhanna, -- Aznar, José Maria (1953- ) -- B -- Baader-Meinhof gang -- Ba'ath Party -- Party of Arab Renaissance, -- Babangida, Ibrahim (1941- ) -- Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth (1857-1941) -- 1st Baron Baden-Powell, -- Bader, Douglas Robert Steuart (1910-1982) -- Badoglio, Pietro (1871-1956) -- Baedeker raids -- Baghdad Pact -- Bakhtiar, Shahpur (1914-1991) -- Balaguer Ricardo, Joaquín Videla (1906-2002) -- Balbo, Count Italo (1896-1940) -- Baldwin, Stanley (1867-1947) -- 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, -- Balfour Declaration -- Balkan Wars -- Ball, Albert (1896-1917) -- Banda, Hastings Kamuzu (1905-1997) -- Bandaranaike, Sirimavo (1916-2000) -- born Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, -- Bandaranaike, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias (1899-1959) -- Bandung Conference -- Bani-Sadr, Abu'l-Hassan (1933- ) -- Bantustan -- or homeland, -- Bapaume, Battle of -- Barak, Ehud (1942- ) -- born Ehud Brog, -- Barbarossa, Operation -- Barbie, Klaus (1913-1991) -- Barnard, Christiaan Neethling (1922-2001) -- Barre, Raymond Octave Joseph (1924- ) -- Barrès, (Auguste-)Maurice (1862-1923) -- Barrow, Errol Walton (1920-1987) -- Baruch, Bernard Mannes (1870-1965) -- Basque -- Bataan -- Batista (y Zaldívar), Fulgencio (1901-1973) -- Batlle y Ordóñez, José (1856-1929) -- Battenberg, (Mountbatten) Prince Louis Alexander (1854-1921) -- battleship -- Baudouin (1930-1993) -- Beatrix, (Wilhelmina Armgard) (1938- ).

Beatty, David (1871-1936) -- 1st Earl Beatty, -- Beaverbrook, (William) Max(well) Aitken (1879-1964) -- 1st Baron Beaverbrook, -- Beck, Józef (1894-1944) -- Bedell Smith, Walter (1895-1961) -- beer-hall putsch -- or Munich beer-hall putsch, -- Begin, Menachem (1913-1992) -- Belaúnde Terry, Fernando (1913-2002) -- Belleau Wood -- Ben Ali, Zine el Abidine (1936- ) -- Ben Barka, Mehdi (1920-1965) -- Ben Bella, Muhammad Ahmed (1916- ) -- Benelux -- acronym for BElgium, the NEtherlands, and LUXembourg, -- Beneš, Edvard (1884-1948) -- Bengal -- Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973) -- adopted name of David Gruen, -- Benn, Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood) (1925- ) -- Bennett, Richard Bedford (1870-1947) -- 1st Viscount Bennett, -- Ben Zvi, Izhak (1884-1963) -- Berchtesgaden -- Beriya, Lavrenti Pavlovich (1899-1953) -- Berlin, Battle of -- Berlin, Battle of -- Berlin blockade -- Berlinguer, Enrico (1922-1984) -- Berlin Olympics -- Berlin Wall -- Bernadotte, Count Folke (1895-1948) -- Bernhard Leopold, Prince of the Netherlands (1911- ) -- Berri, Nabih (1939- ) -- Betancourt, Rómulo (1908-1981) -- Bethlen, István (1874-1947) -- Count Bethlen, -- Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von (1856-1921) -- Bevan, Aneurin (Nye) (1897-1960) -- Beveridge, William Henry (1879-1963) -- 1st Baron Beveridge, -- Beveridge Report, the -- Bevin, Ernest (1881-1951) -- Bhattari, Krishna Prasad (1925- ) -- Bhindranwale, Sant Jarnail Singh (1947-1984) -- Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927- ) -- Bhutto, Benazir (1953- ) -- Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali (1928-1979) -- Biafra, Republic of -- Bidault, Georges Augustin (1899-1983) -- Biggs, Ronald (1929- ) -- Bikini Atoll -- Biko, Steve (1946-1977) -- born Bantu Stephen Biko, -- bin Laden, Osama (1957- ) -- Bird, Vere Cornwall (1910-1999) -- Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev (1945-2001) -- Birkenhead, F(rederick) E(dwin) Smith (1872-1930).

1st Earl of Birkenhead,.