Mr. Charon's Connection to:
Europe: Post-WWII to Today:
Event Calendar
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1960's
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- NATO and Warsaw Pact
- Arms buildup
- Berlin Wall built
- Cuban missile crisis
- Vietnam War
- Breschnev Doctrine
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1970's
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- Detente
- Reduction of nuclear arsenals
- Aid to developing countries
- Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
- U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam
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1980's
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- Economic decline of Soviet Union
- Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika
- Berlin Wall torn down
- Soviet withdrawal form Afghanistan
- Move toward democracy in Eastern Europe
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1990's
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- Collapse of Soviet Union
- German reunification
- Expansion of UN peacekeeping
- Ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe
- Move toward market economy in Russia
- Economic distress in former Soviet Union
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All above information taken from book transparency for Chapter 33 in the class text: Prentice-Hall, World History, Connections to Today. © Prentice-Hall.
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