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The Recent World

The Recent World. The Americas. Postwar United States. The Cold War Origins US Beliefs Early Soviet Actions US Policy Eastern Europe NATO House UnAmerican Activities Committee Eisenhower Doctrine. Key Terms Truman Doctrine HUAC Eisenhower Doctrine. Postwar Latin America.

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The Recent World

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  1. The Recent World The Americas

  2. Postwar United States • The Cold War • Origins • US Beliefs • Early Soviet Actions • US Policy • Eastern Europe • NATO • House UnAmerican Activities Committee • Eisenhower Doctrine Key Terms Truman Doctrine HUAC Eisenhower Doctrine

  3. Postwar Latin America • Latin America and the Cold War • Fidel Castro • Bay of Pigs • Nikita Kruschev • Cuban Missile Crisis • North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) Key Terms Cuban Missile Crisis

  4. Postwar Latin America Key Terms Lula Augusto Pinochet • Brazil • Governmental Stresses (1954-1964) • Military Dictatorship (1964-1985) • Return to Democracy (1985-present) • Luis Inacio da Silva (Lula) • Chile • Salvador Allende (1970-73) • Augusto Pinochet (1974-90)

  5. Postwar Latin America • Mexico • Argentina Key Terms MERCOSUR

  6. The Recent World Europe

  7. Postwar Europe Key Terms Charles de Gaulle • The Revival of Western Europe • Common Market • Charles de Gaulle • European Union • Decolonization and the Cold War

  8. The Recent World Africa

  9. Postwar Africa • WW II’s Effect on Africa • European Preparations for Colonial Autonomy • African Nationalism and the Cold War • North Africa Key Terms apartheid Front de Liberation National

  10. Postwar Africa (cont’d) • Sub-Saharan Africa • Britain’s Retreat from Empire • The Gold Coast • East Africa • Central Africa • Failure of the French Community • Chaos in Belgium’s Empire • Patrice Lumumba • Mobutu Sese Seko • Portugal’s Unique Decolonization • From Apartheid to Freedom in South Africa Sékou Touré Kwame Nkrumah Key Terms Kwame Nkrumah Mau Mau Sékou Touré Patrice Lumumba Mobutu Sese Seko Nelson Mandela Mobutu Sese Seko

  11. The Recent World Western Asia

  12. The Soviet Union • Life Under Communist Rule • Challenges to Soviet Authority • The End of the Cold War • Détente • The Gorbachev Revolution • Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1991) • Perestroika and glasnost • The Collapse of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev Key Terms Brezhnev Doctrine Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin Leonid Brezhnev

  13. The Transformation of the Middle East • The State of Israel • The Zionist Movement • The Balfour Declaration (1917) • Arab-Israeli War of 1948-49

  14. The Transformation of the Middle East (cont’d) • Arab Nationalism • Gamal Abdel Nasser (1956-1970) • Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) • Six-Day War (1967) • Anwar al-Sadat (1970-1981) • Development of Islamist Fundamentalism • Iranian Revolution (1979) Key Terms Gamal Nasser Palestinian Liberation Organization Six-Day War Ayatollah Khomeini

  15. The Recent World Eastern Asia

  16. India and Pakistan • Independence and Partition • India • Pakistan Key Terms Jawaharlal Nehru Indira Gandhi Benazir Bhutto

  17. China and Korea • Civil War in China • Divided China • Divided Korea Key Terms Lin Biao Kim Il-sung Syngman Rhee Kim Dae-jung Kim Il-sung

  18. China and Korea (cont’d) • China Under Communist Rule • Early Radical Reforms • The Great Leap Forward • The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution • China Opens to the West • China After Mao Key Terms Zhou Enlai Red Guards Deng Xiaoping Tiananmen Square Massacre

  19. Southeast Asia • First Indochina War (1946-1954) • The Vietminh • Ngo Dinh Diem • Second Indochina War (1959-1975) • Cambodia • The Khmer Rouge • People’s Republic of Kampuchea Key Terms Ho Chi Minh Vietminh Ngo Dinh Diem Viet Cong Pol Pot Ho Chi Minh

  20. Indonesia • Sukarno (1945-1967) • Suharto (1967-1998) • Megawati Sukarnoputri (2001-2004) Key Terms Panca Sila Suharto Megawati Sukarnoputri Suharto

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