- Paris Peace Conference
- Paris Peace Treaties and League of Nations
- Motives of the USA
- Motives of France
- Motives of Great Britain
- "The Big Three"
- Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
- The War Guilt Clause
- Nationalism and the Formation of New Countries
- War Reparations
- The Treaties with the Lesser Powers
- The Formation of the League of Nations (Collective Security)
- Russia 1917-1945
- Abdication of the Tsar, Feb./ March Revolution 1917
- The Provisional Government
- The Bolsheviks: October/ November Revolution 1917
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918
- Vladimir Lenin
- Russian Civil War 1919-21
- War Communism
- New Economic Policy
- “Socialism in One Country”
- Collectivization
- Show Trials and the Great Purges
- Industrialization, 5 year plans 1928-1941
- Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
- Operation Barbarossa
- Stalingrad
- USA in the 20s and 30s
- A Consumer Society
- Henry Ford, Assembly Lines and the Model T
- Isolationism
- Prohibition
- The Washington Naval Conference, 1921
- The Dawes Plan, 1924 and The Young Plan, 1929
- Buying on the Margin
- Black Tuesday, October 22, 1929: Stock Market Crash
- Herbert Hoover and Hoovervilles
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 100 Days
- The New Deal
- Alphabet Agencies
- John Mavnard Kevnes
- Fireside Chats
- Europe in the 20s and 30s
- The Weimar Republic
- The Maginot Line
- The Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch) and Mein Kampf
- Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism
- Locarno and Kellogg-Briand Pacts
- Gustaf Stresemann and The Dawes Plan
- Early Acts of Appeasement
- Final Acts of Appeasement
- The Spanish Civil War
- Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
- Anti Semitism and the Holocaust
- World War II
- The Invasion of Poland
- The Invasion of Norway and Low Countries
- Invasion of France (Dunkirk)
- The Battle of Britain (Operation Sea Lion)
- The Battle of the Atlantic
- North Africa
- Italy in Greece and Yugoslavia
- Operation Barbarossa
- Pearl Harbor
- Japan's Need For Natural Resources
- Turning Point 1943: Stalingrad, Kursk, El Alamein
- Island Hopping
- Invasion of Italy
- D-Day
- The Battle of the Bulge
- Iwo Jima and Okinagawa
- The Manhattan Project
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- The Wartime Conference: The Opening shots of the Cold War
- Advances in Technology and the Role of Women
- The Nuremburg Trial
- Early Cold War
- A Bi-Polar World
- The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
- 1948 Coup in Czechoslovakia
- Yugoslavia and Albania "Cracks in the Iron Curtain"
- The Berlin Blockade Airlift 1948
- NATO and Warsaw Pact
- The Korean War, 1950-53
- McCarthyism
- Nikita Krushchev and De-Stalinization
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- The Hungarian Uprising, 1956
- The Space Race and Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM's)
- The Rise of John F. Kennedy
- The Berlin Wall, 1961
- The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963
- The Late Cold War
- The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnam War
- Ho Chi Minh and Vietcong
- Vietnamization
- The Leonid Brezhnev Era
- Czechoslovakia, 1968
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
- Richard Nixon and Detente
- Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
- Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) I and II 1972, 1974
- The Helsinki Accords, 1975
- Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
- Ronald Reagan
- Star Wars and Strategic Defense Initiative
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Perestoika and Glasnost
- The Falling of the Berlin Wall 1989
- The Russian Coup, 1991
- China, 1919 - 1991
- Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang
- The Japanese and Manchuria
- The Stimson Doctrine
- The Long March, 1934
- Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong)
- Chinese Civil War, 1946-1949
- The Korean War and Yalu River
- The Great Leap Forward, 1956
- The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
- Mao dies, 1976
- Deng Xiaoping takes over, 1978
- Special Economic zones
- Tiannamen Square, 1989
- Middle East 1919 - 1991
- Middle East Blog
- Breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the French and English Mandates
- The Balfour Declaration, 1917
- The Israech War of Independence, 1948
- The Suez Crisis, 1956
- The Six Days War, 1967
- The Yom Kippur War, 1973
- Anwar Sadat
- The Camp David Accords, 1978
- The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
- The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
- Yasser Arafat
- Saddam Hussein
- Kuwait and the Gulf War, 1991
- Human Rights, Civil Rights, Women's Rights, (India, South Africa)
- Blogs
- Apartheid and South African Human Rights Violations
- Nelson Mandela
- Soweto Massacre
- Sharpeville Massacre
- Pass Laws
- Role of the United Nations (UN)
- African National Congress
- Mohandas Ghandi
- Amritsar, 1919
- Self Rule and the Salt March, 1929
- Partition
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League, 1947-48
- India and Pakistan (Bangladesh)
- Martin Luther King
- Great Society
- Malcolm X
- Black Panthers
- Little Rock
- Universal Suffrage and the Right to Vote
- Margaret Thatcher (The Falkland Islands War, 1982)
- Ghandi and Women's Rights
- Golda Meir
- Benazir Bhutto
- Birth Control
- Equal Pay
Richard Nixon
- Elected 37th President in 1968
- Promised to end the Vietnam war
- Pulled troops but increased bombing campaign, implemented Vietnamization
- Began a policy of Détente to lessen Cold War tensions
- Resigned after being implemented in Watergate scandal, 1972
- Promised to end the Vietnam war
- Pulled troops but increased bombing campaign, implemented Vietnamization
- Began a policy of Détente to lessen Cold War tensions
- Resigned after being implemented in Watergate scandal, 1972
The Watergate Scandal
- As Nixon was about to run for the 1972 election the Republicans were accused of a crime
- 5 men were caught trying to break into the Watergate hotel (headquarters for the Democrats) to place bugs
- The investigation led to much more corruptness and also implicated Nixon in the cover up
- Nixon resigned before he could be impeached
- 5 men were caught trying to break into the Watergate hotel (headquarters for the Democrats) to place bugs
- The investigation led to much more corruptness and also implicated Nixon in the cover up
- Nixon resigned before he could be impeached
Détente (A Relaxation of Tension)
- Reasons why U.S. sought détente:
- Nuclear and Strategic Parity - The Russians had caught the U.S. in most military areas (caused them to want to think of other options)
- Early Success:
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (limit the spread of Nuclear weapons) Signed by Johnson in 1968 (France and China do not sign it)
- Many, like Henry Kissinger, felt détente was just a new form of containment
- Nuclear and Strategic Parity - The Russians had caught the U.S. in most military areas (caused them to want to think of other options)
- Early Success:
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (limit the spread of Nuclear weapons) Signed by Johnson in 1968 (France and China do not sign it)
- Many, like Henry Kissinger, felt détente was just a new form of containment
Ostpolitik
- German for ‘east politics’
- Western German leader, Willy Brandt wished to unite the Germanys
- Wanted improved relations between the two
- 1972 a Basic Treaty was signed with East Germany
- Accused of selling out to the communist East Germany, others see it as another détente move
Summary:
Richard Nixon was elected as the 37th president. He promised to end the Vietnam war, but pulled troops and implemented the Vietnamization. He started the policy of Détente to lessen the Cold War tensions. US sought détente for the Nuclear and Strategic Parity and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Many like Henry Kissinger, felt that détente was just a new form of containment.
- Western German leader, Willy Brandt wished to unite the Germanys
- Wanted improved relations between the two
- 1972 a Basic Treaty was signed with East Germany
- Accused of selling out to the communist East Germany, others see it as another détente move
Summary:
Richard Nixon was elected as the 37th president. He promised to end the Vietnam war, but pulled troops and implemented the Vietnamization. He started the policy of Détente to lessen the Cold War tensions. US sought détente for the Nuclear and Strategic Parity and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Many like Henry Kissinger, felt that détente was just a new form of containment.
"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do." - Richard M. Nixon