1. Isolationism
Good neighbour policy, Relations with Japan, Neutrality Acts, Lend – Lease / Atlantic Charter

2. Pearl Harbour War in Europe War in the Pacific Atomic Bomb
World War 2
Pearl Harbour
War in Europe
War in the Pacific
Atomic Bomb

3. Yalta / Potsdam Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan
Cold War
Yalta / Potsdam
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan

4. Berlin Airlift
1948/9

5. Cuban Missile Crisis
1962

6. Vietnam
1954
1964
1973

7. SALT I and II Helsinki Agreements Apollo-Soyuz China
Détente
SALT I and II
Helsinki Agreements
Apollo-Soyuz
China

8. Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Regan and SDI (Star Wars)
The ‘second Cold War’
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Regan and SDI (Star Wars)

9. End of the Cold War
Gorbachev’s new policies – Glasnost (Openness) and Perestroika (Restructuring)
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Collapse of the Soviet Union

10. US involvement in the Middle East
Iran – (444 days)
Gulf War -1990/91