- 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
The Collapse of Communism, 1989-1991
- Poland had a history of liberation movements
- Lech Walesa had formed the solidarity movement of trade unions in 1980
- 1981 the gov’t cracked down with martial law under General Jaruzelski
- 1989 elections were held in Poland the solidarity movement won 92% of the vote and 160/161 seats
- The solidarity leader, Tadeusz Mazowiecki became Prime Minister although Jaruzelski remained President
- Dec. 1990 Lech Walesa became President of Poland
- Hungary had been ruled by Janos Kadar since the 1956 Hungarian uprising
- After watching events in Poland they allowed free elections in March 1990
- The Democratic Forum won with Jozsef Natal as the Prime Minister- Czechoslovakia protested during the “velvet revolution” Nov. 1989
- After a nationwide strike the Communist party resigned in favour of Vaclev Havel
- In 1992 the Czechs and Slovaks decided to separate into two independent countries
- Romania had been ruled by Nicolae Ceausescu since 1965
- He ordered protesters shot in Dec. 1989, after two days the army refused orders and executed Ceausescu and his wife
- Bulgaria had its first free elections in June, 1990
- Albania became democratic in 1992
- Yugoslavia disintegrated into civil war in 1991
- Lech Walesa had formed the solidarity movement of trade unions in 1980
- 1981 the gov’t cracked down with martial law under General Jaruzelski
- 1989 elections were held in Poland the solidarity movement won 92% of the vote and 160/161 seats
- The solidarity leader, Tadeusz Mazowiecki became Prime Minister although Jaruzelski remained President
- Dec. 1990 Lech Walesa became President of Poland
- Hungary had been ruled by Janos Kadar since the 1956 Hungarian uprising
- After watching events in Poland they allowed free elections in March 1990
- The Democratic Forum won with Jozsef Natal as the Prime Minister- Czechoslovakia protested during the “velvet revolution” Nov. 1989
- After a nationwide strike the Communist party resigned in favour of Vaclev Havel
- In 1992 the Czechs and Slovaks decided to separate into two independent countries
- Romania had been ruled by Nicolae Ceausescu since 1965
- He ordered protesters shot in Dec. 1989, after two days the army refused orders and executed Ceausescu and his wife
- Bulgaria had its first free elections in June, 1990
- Albania became democratic in 1992
- Yugoslavia disintegrated into civil war in 1991
The Fall of the Soviet Union, 1991
- Gorbachev made a couple of major changes in 1990
- First was he introduced ‘rule of law’
- He felt that socialism could be achieved within a democratic state
- Second was the ‘500 day plan’ dealing with the deficit
- Finally, the Union Treaty giving the republics more autonomy
- First was he introduced ‘rule of law’
- He felt that socialism could be achieved within a democratic state
- Second was the ‘500 day plan’ dealing with the deficit
- Finally, the Union Treaty giving the republics more autonomy
The Breakup of the USSR, 1991
- An attempted coup d’etat takes place in Aug. 1991
- He is saved by Boris Yeltsin who became the effective leader of the country
- Gorbachev became a lame duck leader and Yeltsin made the final step to outlaw the Communist party in the Russian Republic
- Dec. 1, 1991 an independence vote is held in the Ukraine which voted in favour of independence
- This led to the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the end of the USSR
Summary:
Communism falls throughout the world from Romania, Albania, Poland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and finally Russia. Gorbachev made a couple of major changes in 1990. He introduced the Rule of law and felt socialism could be achieved within a democratic state. Second was the 500 day plan dealing with the deficit. The Union Treaty was used to give the republics more autonomy. An attempted coup d'etat takes place in August 1991. He is saved by Boris Yeltsin who became the effective leader of the country.Gorbachev became a lame duck leader and Yeltsin made the final step to outlaw the Communist party in the Russian Republic. This led to the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the end of the USSR.
- He is saved by Boris Yeltsin who became the effective leader of the country
- Gorbachev became a lame duck leader and Yeltsin made the final step to outlaw the Communist party in the Russian Republic
- Dec. 1, 1991 an independence vote is held in the Ukraine which voted in favour of independence
- This led to the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the end of the USSR
Summary:
Communism falls throughout the world from Romania, Albania, Poland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and finally Russia. Gorbachev made a couple of major changes in 1990. He introduced the Rule of law and felt socialism could be achieved within a democratic state. Second was the 500 day plan dealing with the deficit. The Union Treaty was used to give the republics more autonomy. An attempted coup d'etat takes place in August 1991. He is saved by Boris Yeltsin who became the effective leader of the country.Gorbachev became a lame duck leader and Yeltsin made the final step to outlaw the Communist party in the Russian Republic. This led to the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the end of the USSR.
"Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself." - Richard M. Nixon