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Unit 8: Cold War & Decolonization Contemporary Era 1900-present -…
Unit 8: Cold War & Decolonization Contemporary Era 1900-present
COLD WAR: Capitlist US vs Communist USSR
Proxy Wars
Vietnam War
Communist North Vietnam vs Capitalist South Vietnam
US participation was mostly just a disasterous mess
Lots of death with little benifits
American Protests (u remember Trial of the Chicago 7?)
Domino theory: one communist country would result in more following, kept America in the game
America eventually withdrew from the war, Soviet victory
Korean War
Communist North Korea vs Capitalist South Korea
Result: Korea split in two (still seperated today :,) )
Berlin Wall
NATO (US)
Warsaw Pact (USSR)
Great Space Race
America: President Reagen, JFK, Nixon
Russia: Gorbachev
DECOLONIZATION
India & Pakistan
Ghandi: peaceful protests
Modern day India/Pakistan conflict
Peaceful independance :)
Ghanda, Africa
peaceful protests, became democratic republic
Egypt
Suez Crisis
Cambodia
Not so peaceful
Khmer Rouge
I guess it worked out in the end but they really carved their path in bloodshed
Misc Resistance movements
Civil Disobediance (peaceful protests)
American BLM
Martin Luther King Jr.
South Africa fight for Democracy
Nelson Mandela
1st democratically elected pres
Violent Al-Queda
Sunni Islam extremist terrorists
Responsible for 9/11
Misc Changes in Countries
China
Communism
"Great Leap Foward"
Did not end well
Lotsa death and famine and stuff
Mao Zedong
Cultural Revolution