UNIT 4: “The COLD WAR”
1945-1989

“The ATOMIC AGE”

MIDWAY (1942)

IWO JIMA & OKINAWA (1945)

LEO SZILARD & NEILS BOHR

ALBERT EINSTEIN & FDR

MANHATTAN ENGINEERING DIST.

ENRICO FERMI

The SCIENTIST & the GENERAL

POTSDAM (8-16 JULY 1945)

TRINITY (15 JULY 1945)

STIMPSON & TRUMAN

HIROSHIMA (6 AUG. 1945)

NAGASAKI (9 AUG 1945)

“The COLD WAR & KOREA”

SECOND FRONT

UNITED NATIONS (1945)

“IRON CURTAIN” (1946)

GEORGE KENNAN (1946)

TRUMAN DOCTRINE (1947)

MARSHALL PLAN (1948)

BERLIN AIRLIFT (1948)

ELEC. of 1948

NATO (1949)

1949

NSC 68 (1950)

KOREA (1950-4)

“I LIKE IKE”

“The AMERICAN WAY of LIFE”

HUAC

HOLLYWOOD 10 (1947)

ALGER HISS (1947)

JOSEPH McCARTHY (1950-54)

JULIUS & ETHEL ROSENBERG (1950)

GI BILL

LEVITTOWN

BABY BOOM

“FATHER KNOWS BEST”

INTERSTATE & DRIVE INS

ELVIS

FEMININE MYSTIQUE (1962)
HIDDEN AMERICA (1962)
SILENT SPRING (1962)
UNSAFE at ANY SPEED (1965)

“STRUGGLE for CIVIL RIGHTS”

JACKIE ROBINSON

SWEATT v. PAINTER (1950)

BROWN (1954)

MONTGOMERY (1956)

GREENSBORO (1960)

ELEC. of 1960

BIRMINGHAM (1963)

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT (1964)

COMING of AGE

ELEC. of 1964

SELMA (1965)

VOTING RIGHTS ACT (1965)

GREAT SOCIETY

“ VIETNAM ”

VIET MINH

DIEN BIEN PHU (1954)

NGO DINH DIEM

AP BAC (1962)

TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION (1964)

ROLLING THUNDER (1965)

SEARCH & DESTROY

STRATEGIC HAMLETS

TET (1968)

“MOMS AGAINST the WAR”

THE MOVEMENT

VIETNAMIZATION

KILLING FIELDS

“The CONFIDENCE GAP”

“SUMMER OF LOVE”

WOMEN’S LIB

ELEC. of 1968

BLACK PANTHERS/BROWN BERETS

STONEWALL (1969)

FLOWER CHILDREN

ROE v. WADE (1973)

OPEC (1973)

PENTAGON PAPERS (1969)

SOUTHERN STRATEGY

WATERGATE (1972-4)

STUDIO 54

FORD, CARTER & HUMAN RIGHTS

INFLATION

“The NEW COLD WAR”

ELEC. of 1980

THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR

MORAL MAJORITY

“EVIL EMPIRE”

“TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS”

SAVINGS & LOAN CRISIS

IRAN CONTRA AFFAIR

DRUG WAR

CRIPs v. BLOODS

AIDS

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

WALL COMES TUMBLING DOWN

“PARTITIONING the HOLY LAND ”

BALFOUR DECLARATION (1917)

EXODUS (1946)

ARAB-ISRAELI WAR (1948-9)

SUEZ WAR (1956)

“A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP”

SIX-DAY WAR (1967)

MUNICH (1972)

YOM KIPPUR WAR (1973)

CAMP DAVID (1979)

BEIRUT (1981-2000)

“INTO the LABYRINTH”

SHARI’A

TIMBUKTU

FROM EMPIRE TO MANDATE

OPERATION AJAX (1953)

HOSTAGE CRISIS (1979-81)

IRAN-IRAQ WAR (1981-1988)

MUJAHIDEEN (1979-1989)

DESERT STORM (1991)

“BLACK HAWK DOWN”

TALIBAN

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