Cold War Era part two. 1969 Apollo lands on the moon Space Race! Conspiracy!

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