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Pan-Africanism
A Pan-Africanist intellectual, cultural, and political movements tend to view all Africans and descendants of Africans as belonging to a single "race" and sharing cultural unity. Pan-Africanism posits a sense of a shared historical fate for Africans in the Americas, West Indies, and, on the continent itself, has centered on the Atlantic trade in slaves, African slavery, and European imperialism. the date for this is wrong but they year is right -
The Potsdam Conference
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. After the Yalta Conference of February 1945, the had agreed to meet following the surrender of Germany to determine the postwar borders in Europe. Germany surrendered and the Allied leaders agreed to meet over the summer at Potsdam -
Rio Pact
.The United States signed the Inter‐American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty) with the twenty Latin American nations in 1947 in Brazil. This regional security pact, permitted under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, incorporated the principle that an attack against one was to be considered an attack against all. But no nation would be required to use force without its consent. -
The Space Race
Beginning in the late 1950s, space would become another dramatic arena for the Cold War, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and its political-economic system. On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik (Russian for “traveler”), the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit. -
SALT I & II
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreements. At the time these agreements were the most far-reaching attempts to control nuclear weapons ever. The United States was looking for help in extricating itself from the unpopular and costly war in Vietnam. Nixon, in particular, wished to take the American public’s mind off the fact that during nearly four years as president, he had failed to bring an end to the conflict.
