Name: ______________________ NATO: 1949 USA -Marshall Plan: 1947 -Truman Doctrine: 1947 -McCarthyism: 1950s -U2 Spy Plane: 1960 -NSC-68: 1950 -Korean War: 1950-1953 -JFK assassinated: 1963 -Apollo 11: 1969 -Vietnam War: 1960s -1973 -SALT I & II: 1970s -Nixon resigns: 1974 West Berlin -Berlin Blockade: 1948 -Berlin Airlift: 1948-1952 -Berlin Wall: 1961 -Fall of the Wall: 1989 -Re-Unification: 1990 Greece -Civil War: 1946-1949 Cold War Hot Spots Warsaw Pact: 1955 Other Allies or Non-Aligned USSR -KGB: 1954 -Sputnik: 1957 -U2 Spy Plane : 1960 -SALT I & II: 1970s -Perestroika & Glasnost: 1980s -Collapse of USSR: 1989 China -Communist Revolution: 1949 -Mao Zedong: 1949-1976 -Tiananmen Square: 1989 East Berlin -Berlin Blockade: 1948 -Berlin Airlift: 1948-1952 -Berlin Wall: 1961 -Fall of the Wall: 1989 -Re-Unification: 1990 Cuba: -Cuban revolution & Castro: 1959 -Bay of Pigs: 1961 -Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962 Hungary -Revolt: 1956 -Independence: 1989 Czechoslovakia -Communist takeover: 1948 -Prague Spring: 1968 Poland -Solidarity: 1980 Korea (North and South) -Korean War: 1950-1953 Vietnam (Cambodia and Laos) -Gulf of Tonkin: 1964 -Nixon & Cambodia: 1970 -US cease fire: 1973 -Fall of Saigon: 1975 Iran -Shah overthrown: 1979 -Hostage Crisis: 1979-1980 -Iran-Iraq War: 1980 Afghanistan -Soviet-Afghan War: 1979-1989 1. Berlin – Eastern Europe Cold War – Eastern Europe Division of Berlin (Yalta ?Potsdam 1945) Berlin Blockade 1948 Berlin Airlift: 1948-1952 Berlin Wall 1961 Fall of the Wall: 1989 Re-Unification: 1990 2. Space Race & Nuclear Technology: 1957+ Space Race Arms Race 1957 Sputnik Manhattan Project 1945 US ATOMIC Bombs (choose 1) 1958: NASA 1950s Bikini Atoll - ICBMs 1961: Yuri Gagarin orbits moon 1960s MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction 1969: Apollo 11 Moon Landing 1968 Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty 1973-1974: Skylab 1970s SALT I & II 1986 – 1996: Mir Space Station 1980s: Strategic Defense Initiative - “Star Wars” 3. The Fate of the Eastern Bloc – Soviet Satellites (choose 2) Hungary Czechoslovakia Poland Imry Nagy & Revolt: 1956 Communist takeover: 1948 People’s Rep. of Poland: 1952 Independence: 1989 Alexander Dubchek Socialism with a Human Face Prague Spring: 1968 Pope John Paul II Velvet Revolution: 1989 Solidarity: 1980 - Lech Walesa 4. Wars in East & South East Asia – Korea & Vietnam (choose 1) Korea Vietnam French Indo-China: 1888+ Japanese Rule: 1910-1945 Ho Chi Minh and Viet Minh (Dec of Independence) 1945+ Division along the 38th Parallel: 1945+ (Potsdam) 1st Indo-China War: 1946-1954/Battle of Dien Bien Phu North invades South: June 1950 Kim IL Sung R. 1945 - 1994 UN Intervention: June 1950 (US NSC-68) Chinese Intervention: June 1950 Stalemate: 1951-1953 & Armistice: 1953 PM Ngo Dinh Diem (S. Vietnam): Viet Cong/NLF: CIA: 1963 Gulf of Tonkin: 1964 Nixon, Cambodia & Vietnamization: 1970s DMZ: US cease fire: 1973 Fall of Saigon: 1975 5. Revolutionary China Under Mao Ze Dong (in class) Civil Wars 1927-1937 and 1945-1949 Nationalists vs. Communists Communist Revolutionī Est. of Peoples’ Republic 1949 Mao Zedong: 1949-1976 Great Leap Forward 1956-1958 100 Flowers Movement 1958-1959 Sino-Soviet Split 1966 Cultural Revolution 1966-1976 Gang of Four Nixon in China – Panda Diplomacy Deng Xioping: 1978-1990s 4 Modernizations Tiananmen Square: 1989 WTO 2000 Hu Jintao:2002-2012 Xi Jingping 2012-2022 6. Central Asia in 1979 – Iran & Afghanistan Iran (choose 1) Afghanistan Persia: 6th century BCE - 1935 Shah Reza Pahlavi: 1941-1979 “White Revolution” & SAVAK Iranian Revolution: 1979 -Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (Shia cleric) -Revolutionary Guards / Council Hezbollah Hostage Crisis: 1979-1980 Iran-Iraq War: 1980-1988 Great Game (Russia vs. GB): 19th Century King Muhammad Zahir Shah: 1933-1973 1973: Military Coup 1978: Military Coup Afghan Civil War: 1978-Present? Soviet-Afghan War: 1979-1989 Mujahedeen / Mujahideen Soviet Withdrawal: 1987-1989 7. Cuba Under Castro - Viva La Revolution Spanish American War 1898 Platt Amendment (1903) Cuban revolution: 1952-1959 July 26th Movement Fidel Castro: 1959-2008 Nationalizations & Expropriations Bay of Pigs: 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962 US Embargo: 1962-Present (sort of) Raul Castro: 2008-Present