Cold War

  • est. of U.S. and U.S.S.R. powers

  • democratic government was est in west Germany and west Berlin

  • us occupation of japan under MacArthur's admin. japan dominant economy in Asia

  • United Nations

  • Yalta conference and soviet control of eastern Europe

  • Iron Curtain

  • free enterprise system vs dictatorship and communism

  • President Truman and Policy of Containment

  • Marshall plan

  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • Nato est.

  • jiang jieshi

  • Mao zedong

  • chinese civil war

  • Chiang became leader of nationalist china

  • Mao became leader of communist china

  • Korean Conflict

  • Nuclear weapons and theory of deterrence

  • battle at dien bien phu

  • ho chi minh became the leader of north vietnam

  • Warsaw pact est.

  • Vietnam war

  • containment theory in vietnam

  • Berlin wall was built

  • Cuban Missile crisis

  • Indira Ghandi developed closer relationship with soviets and nuclear program

  • Paris peace accords

  • indira gandhi

  • Paris Peace accords ended fighting in vietnam

  • North vietnam defeated south vietnam

  • deng xiaoping reformed chinas economy

  • margaret thatcher close relationship with u.s

  • Deng Xiaoping

  • fall of soviet union

  • tearing down of berlin wall

  • berlin wall down-east and west germany unified

  • soviet economic collapse

  • break up of soviet union

  • Mikhail grobachev