Age of exploration

Silk Road   Spain Ferdinand & Isabella    England      Wars of the Roses

Henry VII   Tudor Dynasty   

Portugal     de Breganza Monarchy

France        Hundred YearsWar     

Fall of Constantinople, 1453

Cartography                  Maps / Rutters / Portolanos

Amerigo Vespucci                 Pedro Cabral      

Cogs & Caravels

Square / Lateen sails   

“Roaring Forties”         “Trade Winds”

Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460

Vasco de Gama   Calicut, India May, 1498                Christobal Colon

Haiti & Cuba October, 1492

Ferdinand Magellan 1517 – 1519

East India Company 1600    

Dutch East India Co. 1602

Slave trade           Gold Coast                  

Congo & Zaire River basins

Protestant Reformation

Martin Luther               Renaissance

Sola Scriptura               "Patristic Tradition"    

Desiderius Erasmus, (1466 - 1536)                  Enchiridion Milites Christianae 1503

The Praise of Folly  1511    

Pluralism             absenteeism

Brotherhood of the Common Life          

Devotio Moderna. 

Thomas Kemper (1380 - 1471)    

The Imitation of Christ

Martin Luther  (1483 - 1546)

Justification by Faith             indulgences                  

Johannes Tetzel                               Treasury of Merit

95 Theses            Leo X        

Thomas DeVio,     Cardinal Catejan                 

Johannes Gutenberg               printing press

Frederick the Wise, the Prince-Elector of Saxony

          Lorenzo Valla    

On the False Donation of Constantine 1440

Charles V            Peace of Augsburg 1555                Cuis regio eius religio

Protestation of Speyer 1526           “Protestant”       

Ulrich Zwingli (1484 - 1531)                            Eucharist  

Transubstantiation                           Consubstantiation

John Calvin, (1509 - 1564)  

The Institutes of the Christian Religion 1536

Predestination               The Elect      The Reprobate 

The Consistory

John Knox           ThePresbyterian Church

Conrad Grebel (1500 - 1526)                  Anabaptists

Henry VIII (1509 - 1547)                Catherine of Aragon              Charles V

Pope Clement VII                  Anne Boelyn

Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer

Act of Supremacy 1534                 

English Book of Common Prayer

 

 

 

 

Catholic Reformation or Counter Reformation

1)      The Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, founded by

Ignatius Loyola (1491 - 1556) in 1540.

2)    Pope Paul III (1534 - 1549) who initiated the Roman Inquisition. 

Paul IV (1555 - 1559)    Index of Forbidden Books.

3)   The Council of Trent, from 1545 to 1563

“Wars of Religion”

Bourbon Monarchy                Huegenots

Henry IV               Edict of Nantes  1598          Phillip II, (1556 - 1598)

Elizabeth I, (1558 - 1603)        

The Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648)

Peace of Westphalia 1648                   Hohenzollerns     Parliament

THE MOSLEM EMPIRES

Ottomans               Safavids                      Mughals

 

Tamerlane                          Mehmet II (r.1451 – 1481)

 

Constantinople 1453                                       Istanbul

 

Selim I (r.1512 – 1520)                    Pashas (Governors)

 

Suleiman I  (r.1520 – 1566)                    Mohacs 1526

 

Austrian Empire                             Russian Empire

 

Safavid Dynasty                                           Persia   (Iran)

 

Shah Ishmael (r.1487 – 1524)     Sheikh Safi-al-Din

 

Shah Hussein (r.1694 – 1723)

 

Mughal Empire        India       Babur (r.1483 – 1530)

 

Humayun                               Akbar (r.1556 – 1605)

 

Battle of Plassey  1757         British East India Company

 

British Crown Colony  1858

 

Scientific Revolution

Paradigm shift                                   Scholasticism

Galen                                                      Hippocrates

Democritus                                           Eratasthones

Hipparchus                                                      Aristotle

Claudius Ptolemy                              Pythagoras

Cosmos                                               Geocentric  Theory

Retrograde Motion               

Nicolaus Copernicus

De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium   1543

Heliocentric Theory                    Johannes Kepler

Tycho Brahe                                     Elliptical orbits

Galileo Galilei                The Starry Messenger  1610

Isaac Newton

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Matematica  1686

Galen                   On Anatomical Procedures
Andreas Vesalius

On the Fabric of the Human Body 1543

William Harvey

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood    1628

Rene Descartes

Discourse de la Method         1637

“Cogito ergo sum”       I think, therefore I am.

Rationalism                  Enlightenment              Philosophe

John Locke

Essay Concerning Human Understanding            1690

Baron de Montesquieu

The Spirit of the Laws           1748

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Treatise on Toleration  1763

Candide      1759

Deism                  Francois Quesnay                  Physiocrats

Adam Smith        The Wealth of Nations 1776

Cesare Beccaria

Essay on Crime & Punishment  1764

Jean Jacques Rosseau

The Social Contract     1762

 

China & Japan

Ming Dynasty 1369 – 1644

Ch’ing Dynasty 1644 – 1911

Hong Kong  1514                                               Junks

Mongols                                                    Vietnam

Jurchens                                                     Manchus

Li Tzu Ch’eng  1604 – 1651                   Ch’ing  (Pure)

K’ang Hsi  1661 – 1722

Yung Chen  1722 - 1736

Ch’ien Lung  1736 – 1795

Treaties of Nerchinsk & Kiakhta  1689

 

Japan

Ashikaga Shogunate  1467                       Onin War

Daimyos

“When only muscle counts, the warrior doesn’t care if he’s a dog or a beast, the main thing is winning”

Oda Nobunaga  1568 – 1582

Toyotomi Hideyoshi  1582 – 1598               Osaka Castle

Tokugawa Ieyasu  1598 – 161                                   Shoen

“Sword hunts”              Tanegashima  1543

Edo                                         Osaka                                      Kyoto

Ronin  “masterless samurai”

 

 

French Revolution & Napoleon

Scientific Revolution                      Philosophes

 

Ancien Regiem                                “Modern History”

 

Agricultural Revolution                 Cottage industry

 

James Hargreaves                        Spinning Jenny  1765

 

Richard Arkwright                       Water frame

 

Jacquard Loom  1780’s                  coal

 

Thomas Savery                                Henry Newcommen

 

Steam Engine                                   James Watt

 

Global Economy                             “Balance of Power”

 

Raison d’ etat

 

War of the Spanish Succession  1701 – 1713

 

Charles II  r. 1665 – 1700     Peace of Utrecht

 

War of the Polish Succession 1733 – 1735

 

War of the Austrian Succession  1740 – 1748

 

Charles VI                              Maria Teresa

 

Frederick II

 

Great Britain &             vs.                            France, Spain

Austria                                                           Prussia & Bavaria   

 

Seven Years War  1756 – 1763

 

French & Indian War                       William Pitt

 

George Washington                                  Fort Duquensne

 

James Wolfe                                    Battle of Quebec

 

Treaty of Paris  1763                      “Wars of Empire”

 

Stamp Act  1765          Declaration of Independence

 

Thomas Jefferson                   Benjamin Franklin

 

French Revolution                 Napoleonic Era

 

Marie Antoinette             Louis XVI  1774 – 1793

 

Assembly of Notables  1787            Estates General

 

Lominie de Brienne                                  Bourgeoisie

 

“Doubling the 3rd

 

Vote by Order                                            Vote by Head

 

National Assembly  17 June 1789

 

Honore de Mirabeau              Immanueal Sieyes

 

Tennis Court Oath

 

Bastille  14 July 1789           Commune

 

National Guard                      Marquis de Lafayette

 

March of the Fishwives  05 October 1789

 

Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen

 

Assignats

 

Civil Constitution of the Clergy      July 1790

 

Pius VI                                   Constitution of 1791

“active citizens”                     “passive citizens”

 

Varennes  June 1791                       Emigres

 

Society of the Friends of the Constitution        Jacobins

 

Jean-Paul Marat           Georges Jacques Danton

 

Maximilian Robespierre

 

Committee of Public Safety

 

Reign of Terror

Napoleon Bonaparte  1769 – 1821

 

Treaty of Campoformio  1797

 

Constitution of the Year VIII         November 1799

 

Consulate

 

Emperor Napoleon I              02 December 1804

 

Banque de Francais                                            franc

 

Universite de Paris                          Code Napoleon

 

Austerlitz  02 December 1805

 

Jena & Auerstadt  October 1806

 

Friedland  June 1807

 

Trafalgar  21 October 1805

 

Continental System                         Czar Alexander I

 

Invasion of Russia  22 June 1812

 

Le Grande Armee  664,000 troops

 

Borodino  07 September 1812

 

Marshal Kutusov                             General “Winter”

 

 

Imperialism  & Colonialism

 

Daniel Headrick                       The Tools of Empire

 

John Hobson                   Imperialism: A Study  1902

 

Vietnam                                  French Indochina

 

Great Britain                                             Burma

 

Siam                                        Thailand

 

Cote d’Oro                                                Sierra Leone

 

Cape Verde                   Liberia                 James Monroe

 

Ashanti  1820’s

 

Malaria                Yellow Fever      Sleeping Sickness

 

Pelletier & Caventou  1829

 

Cinchona tree      Alkaloid of Quinine               Java

 

Ferdinand de Lesseps             Suez Canal 1854

 

Mahdi  1881                 Charles “Chinese” Gordon

 

Khartoum

 

Boers                             Afrikaans

 

Voortrek  1835 – 1840             Orange & Vaal Rivers

 

Mfecane  “Time of Troubles”                            Zulus

 

Shaka                             Assegai                          Impis

 

Mozambique                 Zambia                Zimbabwe

 

Piet Retief           Natal

 

A.H Potgieter               Transvaal             Matabeles

 

Dingane                                            Zulu Wars

 

Blood River           December 1838

 

Andreas Pretorius                            Mpande

 

Cetewayo  1872                     F.A. Thesiger

 

Isanhlwana  “Little Sphinx”    22 January 1879

 

India           Indian National Congress  1885

 

Mohandas K. Gandhi  1913               Mahatma

 

Jawaharlal Nehru  1930’s                        Pakistan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NATIONALISM

 

Congress of Vienna  1814 – 1815

 

Klemens von Metternich

Austria

 

Czar Alexander I

Russia

 

Robert Stewart  (Viscount Castlereagh) 

Great Britain

 

Prince Talleyrand

France

 

The “Concert of Europe

 

Balance of Power

 

Legitimacy

 

Compensation

 

Dr. Henry Kissenger              A World Restored

 

Ultramontaignes                    Charles X  1824 – 1830

 

July Monarchy                        Louis Phillipe

 

 

Belgium                                           Flemings & Walloons

 

William I

 

Belgian National Congress  1825

 

Leopold of Saxe-Coburg

 

Italy                                         Guiseppe Mazzini

 

Germany                                 Burschenschaften

 

Irish Potato Famine  1845

 

1848 Revolution                             French 2nd Republic

 

Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Napoleon III  1852 – 1871

 

Zollverein  Frederick William IV  1840 – 1861

 

Frankfurt Assembly  1848

 

Austria                          Francis Joseph  1848 – 1916

 

Italy

 

Victor Emmanuel II  1849 – 1878

 

Camillo di Cavour                          Guiseppe Garibaldi

 

Germany

 

Wilhelm I  1861 – 1888

 

Landtag                         Otto von Bismarck

 

Realpolitik

 

Austro-Prussian Danish War  1864

 

Seven Weeks War  1866

 

Koniggratz  03 July 1866

 

North German Confederation

 

Chancellor

 

Spain                             Isabella II

 

Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern

 

Franco-Prussian War

 

Battles of Metz & Sedan     September 1870

 

Alsace & Lorraine

 

Kaiser Wilhelm I  of Germany

 

 

 

World War One

 

"The War to end all Wars"

The Great War

The War in Flanders

 

Why is there a war in 1914?

 

Who stands to gain from conflict?

 

Russia                                                                  Austria-Hungary

Serbia                                                                  Germany

France                                                                  Turkey

Great Britain                                                       Italy

 

United States?

 

This war is fought by schedule - very time-critical

 

28 June 1914:  Archduke Franz Ferdinand

          Assassinated in Sarajevo.

 

The “July Crisis”                             The “Blank Cheque”

25 July: Serbia Mobilizes

 

28 July: Austria declares War on Serbia

 

29 July: Russia mobilizes against Austria

 

30 July: Frances mobilizes against Germany before Germany can mobilize in support of Austria

 

01 August: Germany declares war against Russia

 

 

WAR PLANS:

 

The Schlieffen Plan                                   Plan XVII

 

 

Blockade:  economic warfare. 

          Germans use submarines

British mine the North Sea

 

07 May 1915:  Lusitania sunk with loss of

128 Americans.  A legitimate target attacked by illegal means - technology outruns maritime law.

Germany apologizes again.

 

German High Command: War is War and we have a weapon tailor-made to defeat the enemy.

 

"What can she do? She cannot come over here!

… I do not give a damn about America."

                                                Gen. Erich von Ludendorff

                                                German Chief of Staff

 

31 January 1917:  Germany announces resumption of

          unrestricted Sub warfare.

 

03 February 1917:  Wilson breaks diplomatic ties

with Germany. British Secret Service releases the "Zimmerman Telegram" to the press on

24 Feb.:

 

Most Secret

For Your Excellency's personal information and to be handed on to the Imperial Minister in Mexico

We intend to begin unrestricted submarine warfare on the first of February. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States neutral. In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal of an alliance on the following basis: Make war together, make peace together, generous financial support, and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The settlement detail is left to you.

You will inform the President [of Mexico] of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak of war with the United States is certain and add the suggestion that he should, on his own initiative, invite Japan to immediate adherence and at the same time mediate between Japan and ourselves.

Please call the President's attention to the fact that the unrestricted employment of our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England to make peace within a few months. Acknowledge receipt.

Zimmerman

March 1917:  Germans sink Algonquin, Nicosia &

Cypress.

 

02 April 1917:  Wilson asks for declaration of war.

 

“…We shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy, for the rights of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free."

                                                President Woodrow Wilson,

Address to Joint session of Congress, 02 April 1917

 

Legacies & Lessons Learned

 

Russia:                 1,700,000 dead

France:                 1,357,000 dead

Britain:                    908,000 dead

Germany:              1,800,000 dead

Austria-Hungary:  1,200,000 dead

Turkey:                    325,000 dead

America:                  130,174 dead, 200,000 wounded

 

Total non-combatant war-related deaths: 20,000,000

American expenses in the war: $32,000,000,000.

 

 

Legacies & Lessons Learned

 

Political:

-Total Home Front mobilizations -

Industry, Finance and propaganda

(manipulation of the corporate mindset)

 

1914:  Everyone (except maybe Belgium) believed

 everyone would still be there at the end.

 

1918:  Four Empires are gone -

Germany, Russia Turkey and Austria-Hungary

 

Without U.S. involvement, it is not certain that

Germany would win, but it is certain that

Germany wouldn't lose, and Versailles will be

sufficiently harsh to make the losers seek

rpartnere, and sufficiently weak to allow it.

 

Technological:

Mechanization & Mobilization-IC engines & steel,

poison gas, subs, tanks, aviation, machine guns. Telegraph's limitations leads to improved radios used mainly by the Navy, still too heavy for individual ground forces.

         

Military Organization:

Contingency Plans - poor or non-existent. 

When the plan stalled, the war stalled.

 

The Peace

1918 - 1919: Versailles.  Wilson attends with his

 "Fourteen Points" calling for an intl. Governing

 Body to prevent future wars and a variety of

 measures aimed at natl. self-determination for

 subject minorities.  In order to get the

 League of Nations Wilson has to concede on

 colonial possessions.  In any event it was a moot

 point - The new Republican Senate led by

 Henry Cabot Lodge refused to ratify the treaty.

 

Wilson’s Fourteen Points:

 

1)   Open covenants, openly arrived at.

2)   Freedom of the Seas in peace and war.

3)   Open International trade.

4)   Reduction of military stockpiles.

5)   Adjust of colonial claims for national self-determination.

6)   Evacuation of occupied Russian territory.

7)   Evacuation & restoration of Belgium.

8)   Return Alsace & Lorraine to France.

9)   Adjustment of Italian borders.

10)    Independence of Austro-Hungarian ethnic & national

minorities.

11)    Romanian, Serbian and Montenegrin independence.

12)    Independence of the Ottoman national & ethnic

         minorities.

13)    Recreation of Poland with access to the sea.

14)    Creation of a League of Nations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 231:

 

The Allied and Associate Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.

 

ARTICLE 232:

 

The Allied and Associated Governments realize that the resources of Germany are not adequate…to make complete reparation for all the loss and damage.

The Allied and Associated Governments, however, require, and Germany undertakes, that she will make compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied and Associated Powers and to their property…

 

ARTICLE 233:

 

The amount of the above damage for which compensation is to be made by Germany shall be determined by an Inter-Allied Commission…. The findings of the Commission as to the amount of damage defined as above shall be concluded and notified to the German Government on or before May 1, 1921.

 

This is the justification for a $200 Billion reparations

 bill against Germany, a nation that laid down its

 arms based on the promise of Wilson's Fourteen

 Points.  Do the Germans have a grievance?

 

Is there a balance of power in the world in 1919?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soviet Union

 

Alexander II  1855 – 1881

 

Alexander III  1881 – 1894            Nicolas II  1894 – 1917

 

Social Democratic Party  1898

 

Vladimir Ill’ych Ulyanov                Lenin

 

Bolshevik            Russo-Japanese War

 

October Manifesto                                    Duma

 

Czarina Alexandra                                     Gregori Rasputin

 

15 March 1917:  Nicolas II abdicates

 

General Alexander Kerensky

 

07 November 1917:  October Revolution?

 

Union of Soviet Socialists Republics  USSR

 

Russian Civil War  1918 – 1922

 

Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak

 

“White Russians”                                      “Red Russians”

 

V. I. Lenin                     Iosef  Dugashvili  (Stalin)

 

War Communism        

 

New Economic Policy   1922 -  1927

 

Krupskaya Lenin          Lev Bronstein (Trotsky)

 

Lev Kamenev                         Grigori Zinoviev

 

OGPU                                              Collectivization

 

Five Year Plans                      Party purges

 

Gulags

 

World War II

 

Is this a result of WW I?

 

Is this a continuation of WW I?

 

Are the combatants the same?

 

What has changed?  What has stayed the same?

 

 

1931:  Japan invades Manchuria, inaugurating the

          Japanese East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

          the LON condemns Japan's actions, Japan

          withdraws from the LON in March 1933.

 

October 1933:  German Chancellor Adolph Hitler

          withdraws from the LON in violation of

          Versailles Treaty.

 

March 1935:  Hitler repudiates Versailles and begins

          to openly rearm Germany, violating every

          interwar arms treaty signed by the Weimar Govt.

 

 

April 1935:  LON condemns Hitler's actions, and the

          French govt. signs a mutual defense agreement

          with the Soviet Union.

 

March 1936:  Germans reoccupy the Rhineland DMZ

 

 

Benito Mussolini, Il Duce of Fascist Italy, invades

          Ethiopia.  Both are LON members, but France

          & Great Britain hope to recruit Mussolini into a

          pact against Germany, and remain silent.  Italian

          troops use aircraft, MGs and mustard gas against

          the Ethiopian cavalry.

 

 

July 1936:  The Spanish Civil War erupts between

          Monarchists/political conservatives led by

          Gen. Francisco Franco and the socialist/left

          coalition that won the 1936 national elections.

 

September 1936:  France & GB initiate mild

sanctions against Italy under article XVI of the

LON charter.

 

October 1936:  Mussolini signs an alliance with

          Hitler, and withdraws from the LON in

December 1937.

 

07 July 1937:  Japanese & Chinese troops skirmish

          on the Marco Polo bridge near Peking.  Japan

          responds by invading southern China, quickly

seizing Peking and Shanghai

(Who owns Hong Kong?)

 

March 1938:  Hitler annexes Austria w/o firing a shot

 

29 September 1938:  The Munich Conference -

          Hitler demands the Sudetenland of

Czechoslovakia, home to 3.25 million ethnic

Germans, (and the Brno, Skoda and

Czeka Zubrojovka arms factories).  British PM

Neville Chamberlain returns to London with

a signed agreement by Hitler to take no further

territories.

 

March 1939:  Hitler annexes the rest of

Czechoslovakia.

 

April 1939:  German Foreign Minister

Joachim von Ribbentrop demands Poland surrender the Danzig Corridor.  France & GB

guarantee Polish territorial integrity on threat of

war.  Russia is the remaining wild card.

 

23 August 1939:  Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact -

          a mutual non-aggression treaty between the

          Soviet Union and Germany.

 

01 September 1939:  Germany invades Poland.

 

03 September 1939:  Great Britain declares war.

 

In 1914, all the major powers expected all the major

powers to still be there when the war ended. 

In 1939 you have a conflict of societies with

 political practices that are mutually exclusive -

 

Fascism vs. communism vs. capitalism

 

Authoritarianism/totalitarianism vs.

liberal democracy

 

World war II will be a conflict between societies -

A fight to the death.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World War II:  the last "Great War"?

 

Four wars in one:

 

1) The 2nd German War

 

2) The "Great Patriotic War"

 

3) The War for East Asia

 

4) The Great Pacific War

 

Each starts at different times with different players-

         

1) U.S. & British Empire, France & Poland

                   vs. Germany Italy Romania & Hungary

         

2) Soviet Union Vs. Germany

         

3) Japan vs. China, Brit. Empire, Dutch & U.S.

         

4) Japan vs. U.S., Australia & New Zealand

 

 

Objectives:

Britain - survive and preserve the Empire

Germany / Italy - expand territorially

USSR - survive, the expand & create buffer states

Japan - Japanese East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neutrality Acts             British & Dutch East Indies

 

U.S. Pacific Fleet                   Pearl Harbor                 Philippines

 

Lend-Lease Act  March 1941 

 

Casablanca Conference  January 1943

 

North Africa                 Italian Campaign         

 

D-Day  06 June 1944

 

Operation OVERLORD                

 

Gen. Bernard Montgomery             Gen. George S. Patton

 

                   Battle of the Bulge  December 1944

 

V-E Day  08 May 1945

 

Pearl Harbor 07 December 1941  

 

Burma                 Aleutians             Solomons

 

Battles of Coral Sea & Midway               Summer 1942

 

Admiral Chester Nimitz                  General Douglas MacArthur

 

Island Hopping”                   B-29 Superfortress               

 

“Strategic” Bombing

 

Tarawa       November 1943

 

          Kwajelain & Eniwetok  February 1944

 

Marianas Islands  June 1944           General Curtis LeMay

 

The “LeMay Soultion”          XX  &  XXI Bomber Commands

 

Firebomb Raids  Operation OLYMPIC   September 1945

 

Manhattan Project                           Atomic Bombs

 

Hiroshima 06 August 1945            Nagasaki  09 August 1945

 

V-J Day  02 September 1945

 

THE COLD WAR

 

August 1941: Atlantic Charter

 

17 July – 17 August 1945:  Potsdam Conference

 

Stalin          Harry S. Truman          Clement Atlee

 

“Cold War”  c. 1947 – 1989

 

September 1949:  Federal Republic of Germany

 

October 1949:  German Democratic Republic

 

Kuomintang                  Chiang Kai-Shek

 

Chinese Communist Party              Mao Tse Tung

 

1949:  People’s Republic of China

 

“Iron Curtain”                                           Marshall Plan

 

1948 – 1949:  Berlin Airlift 

 

1949:  North Atlantic Treaty Organization

 

1955:  Warsaw Pact

 

1945:  United Nations           Security Council

 

Summer/Fall 1950:  NSC-68

 

Korea                             August 1945:  38th Parallel

 

25 June 1950:  North Korea invades South Korea

 

November 1950:  Chinese intervention

 

U.N. “Police Action”

 

1952:  Eisenhower – “Deterrence & Containment”

 

July 1953:  Korean cease-fire

 

1954:  John Foster Dulles – “Massive Retaliation”

 

December 1946:  Indochinese war – France vs. Viet Minh

 

1954:  Geneva Peace Conference:

 

North Vietnam (Communist)

South Vietnam (Democratic)

 

Lyndon B. Johnson – Escalation

 

January 1968:  Tet Offensive

 

November 1968:  Richard M. Nixon

 

“Vietnamization”

 

1953:  Stalin dies      Nikita Krushchev becomes Premier

 

Destalinization                              The “Cult of Personality”

 

“Peaceful Coexistence”

 

“We Will Bury You!”

 

MAD          “Mutual Assured Destruction”