20th-21st Century Events

Decolonization
Fall of Communism
Cold war
WWI/WWII & Holocaust
----------------------------------Terrorism 9/11 and before
Ireland
Nuclear Age

Pre-1990: Key events

Key players
Stalin
FDR
Churchill
Truman
o Then
Stalin
Eisenhower
o Then
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
o Then
Khrushchev
JFK
o Then
Khrushchev / Brezhnev
LBJ
o Then
Khrushchev / Brezhnev
Nixon
o Then
Brezhnev
Ford/carter
o Then
Assorted Communists
Reagan
o Then
Gorbachev
Reagan
Thatcher
Others
o DeGaule
o Churchill

1950s
o Europe a mess
Marshall plan initiated
Gives aid
Russia denies aid and tells satellite nations to deny
o Blocks off berlin
Berlin blockade
Berlin Airlift
1989
o Fall of the Berlin Wall
Solidarity
Czecoslovakia
Czec republic
Slovak Republic
Yugoslavia
Croatia
Montenegro
Bosnia/Herzegovina
Serbia
o USSR
Gorbachov out
Yeltin (drunk)- In
Created Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
o Russia
o Latvia
o Estonia
o Lithuania
o Beloryes
o Ukraine
Putin