Unit IX: AP European

By tmgarrison

  • Basis for the United Nations agreed upon by 5 charter members

  • Great Britain becomes “welfare state”

  • Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; Great Britain gives India and Pakistan independence

  • Jews proclaim new state in Israel

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    First Berlin blockade and Berlin airlift

  • China falls to the Communists; Republic of China established on Taiwan; United Nations begins; NATO forms; Konrad Adenauer becomes first chancellor or West Germany

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Joseph Stalin dies

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • Hungarian revolt crushed by Soviet Union

  • European Common Market forms; Bill Haley and the Comets release first “Rock and Roll” hit

  • Berlin wall constructed

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    Vietnam War

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. leads Civil Rights “March on Washington”

  • Palestinian Liberation Organization formed: Khrushchev removed as leader of Soviet Union; Gulf of Tonkin resolution escalates American involvement in Vietnam

  • Six Day War in Middle East

  • Soviets crush “Prague spring” in Czechoslovakia

  • Watergate scandal paralyzes US; OPEC oil embargo shakes western economies

  • Iran seizes US embassy in Tehran with hostages: Soviet Union invades Afghanistan

  • Solidarity movement begins in Poland

  • Great Britain wins Falklands War

  • Collapse of communism begins in Czechoslovakia

  • Soviet Union begins to break apart; Germany is reunified

  • Communism ends in Soviet Union which becomes Russia again; First Persian Gulf War

  • European Union created

  • Terrorist attack on the US on 9/11; Coalition war on terrorists in Afghanistan

  • US invades Iraq

  • Worldwide eonomic collapse