SUPERPOWERS

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SUPERPOWERS GLOBALTRANSFORMATION
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POST-WAR REALITIES

• Emergence of the Superpowers
• United States
• Soviet Union
• The Bipolar World
• Liberal Democracy/Capitalism
• Marxist/Leninist Socialism/Communism
• Decolonization
• 90 nations gain independence between 1945-1980
• Who will fill the void?
• Alignment non-alignment

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The Arms Race
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Cold War Alliances and Conflicts
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Second Indochina War 1959-1975
1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954 Geneva
Accords August 7, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution January 27, 1973 Paris
Peace Accords April 30, 1975 U.S.
Embassy Withdrawal
Ho Chi Minh 1890-1969
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Kent State KillingsMay 1970
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Fall of Saigon, 1975
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Decolonization
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Israel
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1982
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perestroika restructuring glasnost
openness Disarmament Poland, Lech Waleas,
Solidarity
Mikhail Gorbachev 1985 - 1991
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Afghanistan
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Soviet-Afghan War 1979-1988
Afghan Mujahid using a hand-held surface-to-air
missile.
Soviet Withdrawal, 1988
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Eastern Europe, 1989
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in the 1990s
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The European Union, 1999
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DOOMSDAY CLOCK
2002
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