cold war era part two. 1969 apollo lands on the moon space race! conspiracy!
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Cold War Era part two
1969
• Apollo lands on the moon
• Space Race!• Conspiracy!
1972
• SALT I• Strategic
Arms Limitations Talks
• Limitations not reductions
• Submarine –launched & intercontinental
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
1973
• Vietnam War ends – Paris Accords
• Vietnam united (and socialist) by 1975
1973
• Yom Kippur war: • Egypt & Syria vs.
Israel• E &S ask for Soviet
assistance• More on Middle
East issues later...
1973• OPEC oil crisis
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
1979
• SALT II• Signed by
President Carter (USA)& Brezhnev (USSR)
• Not ratified by U.S. Congress because...
1979• Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan
• Charlie Wilson’s War (USA)
• 9th Company (Russia)
• POV!
http://youtu.be/TcHD9VEQ7C8
1980
• Solidarity – Poland• Lech Walesa
1983• SDI – Strategic Defence Initiative, a.k.a. “Star Wars”• USA
1984• 99 Red balloons• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4
• You and I in a little toy shopBuy 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 softwareFlash 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 lineAs 99 red balloons go by.
• 99 Knights of the airRide super-high-tech jet fightersEveryone'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 balloonI think of you and let it go.
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_I4WgBfETc
1985
• Gorbachev – USSR• Perestroika• Glasnost• Ends economic aid
to satellite states in ‘86
1986• Chernobyl disaster, 26 April
• Fallout 400x Hiroshima
• Symbolic?
1989 !!!
• Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan –power vacuum
• Where are they now?
Taliban leaders Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (left) and Jalaluddin Haqqani
1989 May
• China• Tiananmen
Square, Beijing
1989 June
• Poland says goodbye to communism
1989 September
• Hungary – fall of communism
1989 November• Berlin Wall falls!• East Germany –
bye bye communism!
1989 December
• Czechoslovakia – Velvet Revolution
• Cz/ Rum/ Bul – communism falls!
1990
• German Re-unification• One Germany
1991• Break-up of
the Soviet Union
• CIS = Commonwealth of Independent States
1992• Yugoslavia breaks up• Civil War 1991 – 1995• The Cellist of
Sarajevo – excellent book
1994
• Rwanda• Shake Hands with
the Devil (Romeo Dallaire)
• Sunday by the Pool in Kigali (Gil Courtemanche)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwmzgTlDqCk
1994
• Mandela – elected in Africa
1997
• Hong Kong back to China
1999
• Euro• Y2K
2002
• Slobodan Milosevic – war crimes trial at the Hague
• ICC gets UN ratification – US does not ratify