World War II as Postscript and Prologue
Military assessment
Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden
Postscript to World War I
Alsace-Lorraine
Marshall Plan
United Nations
Prologue to the Cold War
Nuremberg trials
Prologue to Decolonization
Dominion status, Statute of Westminster (1931), British Commonwealth
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada and
Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the
Faith (1926-, r. 1952-)
Palestine, Indochina, Indonesia, Achmad Sukarno (1901-70)
Cold War & Decolonization
Cold vs. Hot Wars
Sputnik (1959)
Roots of Cold War
“Iron Curtain”
USA objectives
GI Bill of Rights (1944)
Harry S Truman (1884–1972, r. 1945-53)
USSR objectives
Joseph Stalin (Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Ста́лин, 1879-1953, r. ca. 1928-53)
Containment
Truman Doctrine, Greece, Italy, Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (1949)
Warsaw Pact (1949)
People’s Republic of China (1949)
Máo Zédōng毛 泽 东 (1893-1976)
The Korean War
New leadership
Nikita Khrushchev (Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв, 1894-1971, r. ca. 1953-64)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, r. 1953-61)
Eisenhower Doctrine
McCarthyism
Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic
Antifascist Wall of Protection (1961)
Decolonization
French Decolonization
Vietnam, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria
Gen. Charles-André-Joseph-Marie de Gaulle (1890-1970, r.‘44-46, 58-69)
British decolonization
Gibraltar, Malaya
Global Cold War Alliances
John Foster Dulles (1888 - 1959)
Organization of American States (OAS) (1948)
Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) (1955)
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) (1955)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (1967)
Non-Aligned Movement
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 – 1964, r. 1947-64)
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970, r. ca. 1954-70)
Josip Broz “Tito” (May 7, 1892 - May 4, 1980, r. 1953-80)
Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-94, r. 1969-74)
Global Cold War
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh (‫)ددصح دمحم‬, (1882 - 1967, r. 1951-53)
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919 – 1980, r. 1941-79)
Latin America
Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán (r. 1951-1954)
Suez
South Asia
Congo
Patrice Lumumba (1926-61, r. 1960-61)
Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-97, r. 1965-1997)
Hungary
Cuba and the Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro (1927-, r. 1959-)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-63, r. 1961-63)
Prague
Vietnam
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-73, r. 1963-69)
Tet Offensive (1968)
Sino-Soviet Split and Cultural Revolution
Khmer Rouge
Détente and its end
Helsinki Conference, SALT I
“Jimmy” James Earl Carter Jr. (1924-, r. 1977-81)
Ronald Reagan (1911-, r. 1981-89) vs. the “Evil Empire”
Mikhail Gorbachev Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв (1931-, r. 1985-91)
Perestroika (Перестро́йка), glasnost (Гла́сность), "Solidarity"
Historians’ Perspectives
My Ex-landlady’s Perspective