Khrushchev secretly begins installing nuclear missiles in Cuba US discovers the plan and blockades Cuba 14 day crisis the world is on the brink of nuclear confrontation Soviets back down and agree to remove missiles from Cuba and US agrees not to overthrow Castro ID: 796810
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THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS 1962
Khrushchev secretly begins installing nuclear missiles in CubaUS discovers the plan and blockades Cuba14 day crisis the world is on the brink of nuclear confrontationSoviets back down and agree to remove missiles from Cuba and US agrees not to overthrow Castro
Slide2THE VIETNAM WAR
French w/draw from Vietnam in 1954Vietnam is divided into communist North Vietnam and pro-Western South VietnamUS gets involved help South Vietnam
War lasts from 1964-1973
Slide3Slide4THE VIETNAM WAR
Misc. info – The Domino Theory = if one country falls to communism the neighboring countries will fall as wellVietcong = South Vietnamese communist rebelsPresident Lyndon Johnson = send a half million American soldiers to fight in VietnamPresident Richard Nixon = negotiates an end to the war and two years later the communists in the North conquer South Vietnam
Slide5THE END OF EUROPEAN COLONIES
DECOLONIZATION – After WW II Europe gave up its colonies around the worldRising nationalist movements in the non-western worldLoss of European energy and wealth lead to decolonizationBetween 1947 and 1962 almost every colony gains independence and statehood
Slide6AFRICA – THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
KWAME NKRUMAH – The Gold Coast = GhanaJOMO KENYATTA – Kenya and the Mau MauEGYPT – British backed King Farouk is overthrown in 1952MOROCCO & TUNISIA – independence from France in 1952ALGERIA – war of independence against FranceSOUTH AFRICA – the ANC and Nelson Mandela
Slide7FRENCH WAR IN ALGERIA
Two million French settlers lived in AlgeriaIn 1954 the FLN begins a guerilla war to gain independenceFrance resists and fights a long bitter war in AlgeriaIn 1962 the French leader Charles de Gaulle grants independence to Algeria
Slide8GUERRE d’ALGERIE
Slide9CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
BETWEEN THE WARNew modernizing regime in TurkeyNew modernizing regime in Iraq becomes independent in 1932Saudi Arabia becomes independent in 1932British and French mandates in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine
AFTER WW II
Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon become independent
Palestine – becomes site of conflict between Arabs and Jewish settlers
In 1948 the US endorses creation of an independent Jewish state
Slide10THE CREATION OF ISRAEL 1948
Slide11THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
May 1948 Jews in Palestine declare the creation of IsraelArab neighbors invade Israel but are defeated and driven outThe PLO = the Palestine Liberation Organization formed to fight against Israel
The SIX DAY WAR 1967 – Israel defeats Egypt and Arab neighbors