Review Chart: Cold War to Present

The Cold War

Origins

Soviet priorities

American priorities

British priorities

Churchill’s “Sinews of Peace” speech and the Iron Curtain

East-West Relations in Germany

Containment

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Berlin Blockade

NATO

Warsaw Pact

Chinese civil war

Korean War

CENTO and SEATO

Khrushchev and “The Thaw”

De-Stalinization

Stirrings in Eastern Europe

East Germany

Poland and Wladislaw Gomulka

Yugoslavia and Tito

Hungarian Revolution (1956)

Prague Spring and Alexander Dubček(1968)

Brezhnev Doctrine

Soviet – U.S. Tensions

Geneva Summit (1955)

Sputnik 1957 and space race

Arms race

Cuban Revolution (1959)

U-2 Incident and Collapse of the Paris Summit (1960)

Bay of Pigs (1961)

Berlin Wall (1961)

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

Test Ban Treaty (1963)

Vietnam

The French and Dien Bien Phu

Geneva Accords (1954)

Vietnam War

Sino-Soviet Tensions

Leonid Brezhnev

Détente

Outer Space Treaty (1967)

Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1968)

SALT I Treaty (1972)

ABM Treaty (1972)

Helsinki Accords (1975)

Dissidents (Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov)

Jewish emigration

SALT II Treaty (1979)

The End of Détente and the End of the Cold War

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the American response (1979)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Glasnost

Perestroika

Pope John Paul II

Solidarity and Martial Law in Poland

Lech Walesa

General Jaruzelski

Korean Plane Incident (19983)

Geneva (1985) and Reykjavik (1986)

INF Treaty (1987)

Revolutions of 1989

Poland

Hungary

East Germany

Erich Honecker

Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)

Helmut Kohl

Reunification of Germany (1990)

Czechoslovakia - Vaclav Havel and the “Velvet Revolution”

Romania and NicolaeCeauşescu

Politics in Post-War Western Europe

Britain

Attlee Labor Government

Return of the Conservatives

Economic Problems

Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990)

Economic Policies

Falklands War (1982)

Ireland

Northern Ireland

Irish Republican Army

France

Fourth Republic

Fifth Republic

Charles De Gaulle

Colonial Conflicts in Algeria and Vietnam

Student Revolts (1968)

François Mitterand

West Germany

Konrad Adenauer

Germany’s “Economic Miracle”

Willi Brandt and Ostpolitik

Helmut Kohl and Reunification

Italy and the “Opening to the Left”

Spain: Franco and the Restoration of the Monarchy

Decolonization

India

Jawaharlal Nehru

Mahatma Gandhi

Dandi Salt March, 1930

Government of India Act, 1935

Partition (1947)

Pakistan

Africa

African National Congress

Mau Mau Rebellion

South Africa

Rhodesia

Apartheid

Nelson Mandela

Repatriation

The Congo

Rwanda

The Middle East

Balfour Declaration

Palestinian Mandate

Israeli War of Independence (1948)

Shah of Iran

Pan-Arabism

Algerian War (1954 -1962)

Pied-noirs

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Suez Crisis (1956)

Six-Day War (1967)

Yom Kippur War (1973)

Arab Oil Embargo (1973-1974)

European Society and Culture

Baby Boom

Negative Population Growth

Immigration from Asia and the Middle East

Growth of the Welfare State

Consumerism and Critics

Youth Revolts

New Left

Modernism and Postmodernism

Existentialism

Jean-Paul Sartre

Albert Camus

Feminism

Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex

T. S. Eliot

George Orwell

Aldous Huxley

Franz Kafka

James Joyce

Abstract Expressionism

Surrealism

Environmentalism

Religion

Second Vatican Council (1962-1965)

Humanae Vitae

John Paul II

Terrorism

Red Brigade

Baader-Meinhof Gang

“The Troubles” in Northern Ireland

Spain and the ETA and the Basque

European Unification

Jean Monnet

Schuman Plan

Council of Europe, 1949

European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) 1951

Treaty of Rome, European Economic Community or Common Market, 1957

Maastricht Treaty, 1991

Lisbon Treaty, 2009

European Union