PPT-America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era and a New Century

19922004 Chapters 41 and 42 George H W Bush Member in the House of Representatives 196670 Ambassador to the United Nations in 1971 Chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1973 Envoy to China in 1974 . By: Bobbi Brown. History of the . D. eath . P. enalty. The first ever death penalty was dated back to the Eighteenth century B.C., in code of king . Hammaurabi. of Babylon, which stated that the death penalty was acceptable for only 25 crimes. In the Seventh Century B.C.’s the Athens code made the death penalty the only punishment for a crime. But in the Tenth Century A.D. hanging became the usual method of execution in Britain.. Throughout . most of the . economic . crises of . the post World . War II . period, governments . in . Latin America . responded . by presenting . new . economic policies representing . a . important leaving . AIM: Who “won” the Cold War?. Do Now: Based on the cartoon, does peace come at a cost?. The Arab Oil Embargo and the Energy Crisis . Six-Day War (1967): . In 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel trying to win back lands . Ending the Cold War:. Victory for Democracy. and Capitalism?. Ending the Cold War. “The Fall of . the Berlin Wall”. [2min Video, no commentary]. Ending the Cold War. I was 14 when I first went to Berlin and the wall was still firmly in place.. The Origins of the Cold War. The Yalta Conference (Feb. 1945, Crimean coast) is often considered the starting point of Cold War tensions between the US and the Soviet Union. ‘Big Three’ – Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin were present. . Introduction. The Age of Discovery. Christoph Columbus. European colonization of the America. The Spanish and Portuguese colonies. English and French colonies. American Revolutionary War. Manifest Destiny. industrialists. . There is no doubt that these industrialists were driven by one motive, and that was wealth. However, historians and others debate the title to . bestow . on these men – that of “. 1945-1963. Containment in a Divided World. The Cold War began at the close of WW2 in 1945 and ended in 1991.. The Cold War in Europe, 1945-1946. Yalta. Yalta Conference the “Big Three” met to reconcile . Chapter 41. Introduction. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the democratization of its client regimes in Eastern Europe ended the four-decade-old Cold War and left the United States the world’s sole remaining superpower.. Cold War. George H. W. Bush. End of Cold War/waning power of the Soviets. May 1989: Hungary opens the border to Austria: the “Iron Curtain” is breached.. June 1989, Solidarity wins elections in Poland. . . foreign . policy . (interventionist) & . efforts to end terrorism. Foreign Policy Post-Cold War. Do Now. On the “Unit 9 Important Dates Timeline” place “FP” next to any event that is connected to U.S. foreign policy. Military History. 3. rd. Quarter. Civil War, 1864-65. Interwar Years, 1865-1898. Reconstruction. The Indian Wars. Emergence in Global Affairs. Spanish-American War. Big Stick vs. Moral Diplomacy. Modernization and Reorganization. Keith B. Richburg was an experienced and respected reporter who had paid his dues covering urban neighborhoods in Washington D.C., and won praise for his coverage of Southeast Asia. But nothing prepared him for the personal odyssey that he would embark upon when he was assigned to cover Africa. In this powerful book, Richburg takes the reader on an extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to Rwanda to Zaire and finally to South Africa. He shows how he came to terms with the divide within himself: between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity. Are these really my people? Am I truly an African-American? The answer, Richburg finds, after much soul-searching, is that no, he is not an African, but an American first and foremost. To those who romanticize Mother Africa as a black Valhalla, where blacks can walk with dignity and pride, he regrets that this is not the reality. He has been there and witnessed the killings, the repression, the false promises, and the horror. Thank God my nameless ancestor, brought across the ocean in chains and leg irons, made it out alive, he concludes. Thank God I am an American. The Cold War Between the United States and the USSR. A War of Ideology and Visions, 1945 – 1991. The Cold War lasted from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union. . The United States.