Algerian War
(1954–62)On 1 November 1954, hostilities broke out between the Christian colonists of French descent and Algerian Muslim nationalists who were organized into the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) ...
alliance
N. a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations: a defensive alliance between Australia and New Zealand | divisions within the alliance.
ambassadors
The titular head of mission of a sending state accredited to a receiving state or to an intergovernmental organisation (e.g. the UN). The title is also accorded to an envoy ...
Anti-Comintern Pact
(25 November 1936)An agreement between Germany and Japan ostensibly to collaborate against international communism (the Comintern). Italy signed the pact (1937), followed by other nations in 1941.
ARCADIA
Codename for the first Washington conference (22 December 1941 to 14 January 1942) at which Churchill, Roosevelt, and their military advisers hammered out future strategy and the mechanisms to be ...
ARGONAUT
Codename for the Allied conference at Yalta in the Crimea which was held from 4 to 11 February 1945 to discuss future strategy (see Grand Alliance) and the division of ...
bureaucracy
[De]A type of organization marked by a clear hierarchy of authority, the existence of written rules of procedure, and staffed by full‐time, salaried officials. Often held to be one of the ...
consulate
The place of business of a consul, the representative of a sovereign state, in a receiving state. See diplomacy; diplomatic mission.
Dag Hammarskjöld
(1905–61)Swedish diplomat and Secretary-General of the United Nations Organization (1953–61). In 1953 he was elected UN Secretary-General as successor to Trygve Lie. He was re-elected in 1957. Under ...
diplomatic mission
A body composed of government officers representing the interests and welfare of their state who have been posted abroad (by the sending state) and operate within the jurisdiction of another state ...
Dumbarton Oaks Conference
(Aug.–Oct. 1944)A number of meetings held at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC. Attended by representatives of the USA, Britain, the Soviet Union, and China, it prepared for the foundation of the United ...
Earl of Avon Anthony Eden
(1897–1977)British statesman and Conservative prime minister, whose brief premiership (1955–57) ended with his resignation following the Suez crisis. He received an earldom in 1961.Decorated with the ...
Epistolae Austrasicae
Collection of letters assembled at Metz late in the 6th C. that documents Byz. diplomacy and military relations with the Merovingian Franks. This activity was prompted chiefly by Constantinople's ...
Francisco Franco
(1892–1975)Spanish general, statesman, and dictator (1939–75).Born in Galicia, the son of a naval paymaster, Franco was educated at the Toledo Infantry Academy before entering the army in 1910. ...
Friedrich Melchior Grimm
Baron (1723–1807), German man of letters, journalist, and diplomat. The son of a Protestant clergyman, Grimm was born in Regensburg in Bavaria. He studied literature, philosophy, history, and public ...
Gambros
(γαμβρός), properly “son-in-law,” term that in the 12th C. became a semiofficial title encompassing a broad group of nobles linked to the emperor by affinity—husbands of the emperor's daughters, ...
George F. Kennan
(1904–2005) diplomat, historian, and foreign policy critic, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Kennan was the chief architect of America's Cold War strategy of containment. As director of the policy ...
Glorious Revolution
Title given to the revolution of 1688–9, which resulted in the ‘abdication’ of James II and the succession of William III and Mary II. Participants had differing objectives. Tories and Anglican ...
Gregory of Tours
(538/9–94), bishop (from 573)Staunch advocate of episcopal authority in Merovingian Francia; author of Histories, the most significant source for his age. He also wrote accounts of miracle-working ...
Group of Seven
(G7)An informal group of leading industrial countries, whose leaders meet periodically to discuss economic problems and policies. The G7 nations are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United ...
