#10. Pan Africanism

• Pan-Africanism

• Nkrumah’s dream

• The beginning of Pan-Africanism

#9 Pakistan and The Indo-

Pakistan War

• How the War Began

• August 5

• Ending the war with stalemate.

• Militarily unsettling

• The U.S. cut off Pakistan’s military supplies.

#8 Fidel Castro

• Fidel Castro

• Urban riots

• Led guerrilla forces and peasants

• Came into political power : July of 1959

• Tension between Castro and U.S.. Alliance

with Russia

• Trading weapons : Cuban Missile Crisis in

1962.

• Cuba’s economy

#7 The Cuban missile Crisis

and JFK

• 1959 : Fidel Castro overthrows Cuban dictator

• “Bay of Pigs”

• U.S. blocked transportation of missiles to

Cuba, Khrushchev agrees to turn back the

fleet if Kennedy would not invade China.

#6 Korean War

• The Korean War

• Division at the 38th parallel.

• Separation in government

• June 25, 1950

• Chinese “volunteer” intervened in force on

the side of north Korea.

• Astatic Defense was redrawn

• Most unfortunate for China.

#5 Chinese Communism

• Communist building strength

• 20-30 million Chinese citizens were living

under the administration of the communists.

• Peasants attracted to communism. The

middle class resentful

• Communist power grew in China, U.S. grew

anxious

• General Marshall to China

#4 The Vietnam War

• Vietnam War

• the United States and the southern-

based Republic of Vietnam

• Second of two major conflicts that

spread throughout Indochina

• United States replaced France as the

major contender against northern-

based Communists and southern

insurgents.

• Communist victory in 1975

#3 The Red Scare

• The Red Scare: A Threat

• First Red Scare - Russian Revolution

• New protections

• Worries about fascism, Nazism, and

Communism.

• Red Scare tactics

• Today’s Effects

#2 The fall of The Berlin Wall

• The Berlin Wall

• Major symbol

• Hungary opened borders to East Germans.

• Egon Krenz

• Federal Republic of Germany in 1990.

• The fall of the Berlin Wall

#1 The Four Great Russian

Powers

• Stalin

• Krucshev

• Brezhnev

• Gorabchev

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