The Recent World
The Americas
Postwar United States
 The Cold War
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Key Terms
Truman Doctrine
HUAC
Eisenhower Doctrine
Origins
US Beliefs
Early Soviet Actions
US Policy
Eastern Europe
NATO
House UnAmerican Activities Committee
Eisenhower Doctrine
Postwar Latin America
 Latin America and the Cold War
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Fidel Castro
Key Terms
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Kruschev
Cuban Missile Crisis
North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA)
Postwar Latin America
Key Terms
Lula
Augusto Pinochet
 Brazil
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Governmental Stresses (1954-1964)
Military Dictatorship (1964-1985)
Return to Democracy (1985-present)
 Luis
Inacio da Silva (Lula)
 Chile
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Salvador Allende (1970-73)
Augusto Pinochet (1974-90)
Postwar Latin America
 Mexico
 Argentina
Key Terms
MERCOSUR
The Recent World
Europe
Postwar Europe
 The Revival of Western Europe
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Common Market
Charles de Gaulle
European Union
 Decolonization and
the Cold War
Key Terms
Charles de Gaulle
The Recent World
Africa
Postwar Africa
 WW II’s Effect on Africa
 European Preparations
for Colonial Autonomy
 African Nationalism and
the Cold War
 North Africa
Key Terms
apartheid
Front de Liberation National
Postwar Africa (cont’d)
 Sub-Saharan Africa
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Britain’s Retreat from Empire
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Failure of the French Community
Chaos in Belgium’s Empire
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Kwame Nkrumah
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The Gold Coast
East Africa
Central Africa
Patrice Lumumba
Mobutu Sese Seko
Portugal’s Unique Decolonization
From Apartheid to Freedom in South Africa
Key Terms
Mobutu Sese Seko
Kwame Nkrumah
Mau Mau
Sékou Touré
Patrice Lumumba
Mobutu Sese Seko
Nelson Mandela
Sékou Touré
The Recent World
Western Asia
The Soviet Union
 Life Under Communist Rule
 Challenges to Soviet Authority
 The End of the Cold War
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Détente
The Gorbachev Revolution
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Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1991)
Perestroika and glasnost
 The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
Key Terms
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev Doctrine
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
The Transformation of the
Middle East
 The State of Israel
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The Zionist Movement
The Balfour
Declaration (1917)
Arab-Israeli War of
1948-49
The Transformation of the
Middle East (cont’d)
 Arab Nationalism
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Gamal Abdel Nasser (1956-1970)
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
Six-Day War (1967)
Anwar al-Sadat (1970-1981)
 Development of Islamist Fundamentalism
 Iranian Revolution (1979)
Key Terms
Gamal Nasser
Palestinian Liberation Organization
Six-Day War
Ayatollah Khomeini
The Recent World
Eastern Asia
India and Pakistan
 Independence and
Partition
 India
 Pakistan
Key Terms
Jawaharlal Nehru
Indira Gandhi
Benazir Bhutto
China and Korea
 Civil War in China
 Divided China
 Divided Korea
Key Terms
Lin Biao
Kim Il-sung
Syngman Rhee
Kim Dae-jung
Kim Il-sung
China and Korea (cont’d)
 China Under Communist Rule
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Early Radical Reforms
The Great Leap Forward
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
 China Opens to the West
 China After Mao
Key Terms
Zhou Enlai
Red Guards
Deng Xiaoping
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Southeast Asia
 First Indochina War (1946-1954)
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The Vietminh
Ngo Dinh Diem
 Second Indochina War (1959-1975)
 Cambodia
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The Khmer Rouge
People’s Republic of Kampuchea
Key Terms
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh
Vietminh
Ngo Dinh Diem
Viet Cong
Pol Pot
Indonesia
 Sukarno (1945-1967)
 Suharto (1967-1998)
 Megawati Sukarnoputri
(2001-2004)
Key Terms
Panca Sila
Suharto
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Suharto