The World Since 1945

The Cold War ( ) Bi-Polar World Hot Spots –Korea –Vietnam Truman Doctrine—Brezhnev Doctrine Marshall Plan—Molotov Plan NATO-Warsaw Pact Arms Race Space Race

Areas of Potential Crisis Berlin –West and East Germany –Berlin Airlift Cuban Missile Crisis Competition for “new” countries

The Fall of the Soviet Union Revocation of the Brezhnev Doctrine –Hungary 1956 –Czechoslovakia 1968 Gorbachev –Perestroika –Glasnost 1989 Revolutions Fall of the USSR

Trends in East Asia China –Mao Zedong—1949 Communist Revolution Peasants Women Nationalism Great Leap Forward Cultural Revolution –Deng Xiaoping Four Modernizations Tiananmen Square

Japan –US occupation ends 1952 –Constitutional monarchy (democracy) –MITI—market economy with state “guidance” –1970s oil shocks –Trade imbalance with West (US) –Leadership in the Pacific Rim

Trends in the South Asia Independence in 1947—Partition of India (Hindu) and Pakistan (Muslim) Nehru dynasty –Mixed economy (trends of socialism) –Non-alignment leader –Territorial disputes over Kashmir Green Revolution Since the 1980s movement toward market economy India is world’s largest democracy Creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh (1971)

SE Asia Asian Tigers –Hong Kong –Taiwan –Singapore –S. Korea Vietnam War

Trends in Latin America Neo-Colonialism –Colossus of the North Military rule, one party rule, dictatorship Communism Disparity between rich and poor Cuba under Castro ISI—Brazil and Bolivia –1970s

Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa Nationalism Difficulty with democracy One party rule, military rule, communism, civil war, genocide Monoculture, economic dependence HIV poverty

Trends in the Middle East Iran –Overthrow of Western supported Shah –1979 Islamic Revolution (theocracy) American hostages Iran-Iraq War Nuclear weapons? Iraq –Arab Social –Ba’ath Party –Saddam Hussein –Persian Gulf Wars –Weapons--Kurds

Turkey –Ataturk Westernization NATO European Union Egypt –Nasser Nationalization of the Suez Canal (Arab Socialism) 1956 War Sadat—Camp David Accords

Israel Zionism –Herzl (Dreyfus Affair; pogroms; Holocaust) –Partition 1948 (Palestine/Israel) –Wars: 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 –Peace with Egypt; Jordan –Return of land; self-rule for Palestinian cities Israeli politics/PLO/?