1. Cold War Era part two

2. 1969 Apollo lands on the moon Space Race! Conspiracy!

3. 1972 SALT I Strategic Arms Limitations Talks Limitations not reductions Submarine – launched & intercontinental

4. 1972 (ping-pong diplomacy) Nixon visits China Opera in Vancouver! USA & China - communiqué recognizing their "essential differences" while making it clear that "normalization of relations" was in all nations' best interests. Changes balance of power with Soviets

5. 1973 Vietnam War ends – Paris Accords Vietnam united (and socialist) by 1975

6. 1973 Yom Kippur war: Egypt & Syria vs. Israel E &S ask for Soviet assistance More on Middle East issues later...

7. 1973 OPEC oil crisis

8. 1975 Cambodia – Khmer Rouge Pol Pot (Brother #1) Agrarian “revolution” “Killing Fields” 1.7 million dead b/w 1975 – 1979 (20%!) Documentation – bureaucracy S-21; Duch – chief of torture centre

9. 1979 SALT II Signed by President Carter (USA)& Brezhnev (USSR) Not ratified by U.S. Congress because...

10. 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Charlie Wilson’s War (USA) 9 th Company (Russia) POV! http://youtu.be/TcHD9VEQ7C8

11. 1980 Solidarity – Poland Lech Walesa

12. 1983 SDI – Strategic Defence Initiative, a.k.a. “Star Wars” USA

13. 1984 99 Red balloons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4 You and I in a little toy shop Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got. Set them free at the break of dawn 'Til one by one, they were gone. Back at base, bugs in the software Flash the message, Something's out there. Floating in the summer sky. 99 red balloons go by. 99 red balloons. floating in the summer sky. Panic bells, it's red alert. There's something here from somewhere else. The war machine springs to life. Opens up one eager eye. Focusing it on the sky. Where 99 red balloons go by. 99 Decision Street. 99 ministers meet. To worry, worry, super-scurry. Call the troops out in a hurry. This is what we've waited for. This is it boys, this is war. The president is on the line As 99 red balloons go by. 99 Knights of the air Ride super-high-tech jet fighters Everyone's a superhero. Everyone's a Captain Kirk. With orders to identify. To clarify and classify. Scramble in the summer sky. As 99 red balloons go by. 99 dreams I have had. In every one a red balloon. It's all over and I'm standing pretty. In this dust that was a city. If I could find a souvenir. Just to prove the world was here. And here is a red balloon I think of you and let it go.

14. 1984 "Red Dawn" mid-1980's America under siege from invading Russian and Cuban armies. nuclear deterrence between the world's super powers, the threat focuses on a group of high school students who take refuge in the Rockies. First coping with survival and eventually fighting back guerrilla style, the students take the war to the invading armies in the hope that they can help turn the tide. As winter progresses; however, the group is worn down, physically, emotionally and mentally by war's attrition. As only a few remain, they must decide how to reach America's safe zones and see if tomorrow will bring another Red Dawn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I4W gBfETchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I4W gBfETc

15. 1985 Gorbachev – USSR Perestroika Glasnost Ends economic aid to satellite states in ‘86

16. 1986 Chernobyl disaster, 26 April Fallout 400x Hiroshima Symbolic?

17. 1989 !!! Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan – power vacuum Where are they now? Taliban leaders Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (left) and Jalaluddin Haqqani

18. 1989 May China Tiananmen Square, Beijing

19. 1989 June Poland says goodbye to communism

20. 1989 September Hungary – fall of communism

21. 1989 November Berlin Wall falls! East Germany – bye bye communism!

22. 1989 December Czechoslovakia – Velvet Revolution Cz/ Rum/ Bul – communism falls!

23. 1990 German Re-unification One Germany

24. 1991 Break-up of the Soviet Union CIS = Commonwealth of Independent States

25. 1992 Yugoslavia breaks up Civil War 1991 – 1995 The Cellist of Sarajevo – excellent book

26. 1994 Rwanda Shake Hands with the Devil (Romeo Dallaire) Sunday by the Pool in Kigali (Gil Courtemanche) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwmzgTl DqCkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwmzgTl DqCk

27. 1994 Mandela – elected in Africa

28. 1997 Hong Kong back to China

29. 1999 Euro Y2K

30. 2002 Slobodan Milosevic – war crimes trial at the Hague ICC gets UN ratification – US does not ratify