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