History 12
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  • 1.Paris Peace Treaty
    • The Motives of the USA
    • The Motives of France
    • The Motives of Great Britain
    • The Big Three
    • Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points
    • The War Guilt Clause
    • Nationalism and the Formation of New Countries
    • War Reparations
    • The Treaties with the Lesser Powers
    • The Formation of the League of Nations (Collective Security)
    • Changing Role of Women
  • 2.Russia
    • Abdication of the Tsar, Feb./March Revolution 1917
    • The Provisional Government
    • The Bolsheviks: October/November Revolution 1917
    • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918 (Outcomes)
    • Vladimir Lenin
    • The New Economic Policy
    • Russian Civil War 1919-21
    • War Communism
    • “Socialism in One Country” Lenin’s Death and the Power Struggle
    • Leon Trotsky vs. Josef Stalin
    • Industrialization, 5 year plans 1928-1941
    • Collectivization
    • Show Trials and the Great Purges
    • Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
    • Operation Barbarossa
    • Stalingrad
  • 3.USA in 20's & 30's
    • A Consumer Society
    • Henry Ford, Assembly Lines and the Model T
    • Isolationism
    • The Washington Naval Conference, 1921
    • The Dawes Plan, 1924 The Young Plan, 1929
    • Buying on the Margin
    • Black Tuesday, October 22, 1929:Stock Market Crash
    • Herbert Hoover and Hoovervilles
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 100 Days
    • The New Deal
    • Alphabet Agencies
    • Fireside Chats
    • John Maynard Keynes
  • 4.The Rise of Fascism.
    • The Weimar Republic
    • The Maginot Line
    • The Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch) and Mein Kampf
    • Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism
    • Locarno and Kellogg-Briand Pacts
    • Gustaf Stresemann and The Dawes Plan
    • Early Acts of Appeasement
    • Final Acts of Appeasement
    • The Spanish Civil War
    • Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
    • Anti Semitism and the Holocaust
  • 5.World War II
    • The Invasion of Poland
    • The Invasion of Norway and Low Countries
    • Invasion of France (Dunkirk)
    • The Battle of Britain (Operation Sea Lion)
    • The Battle of the Atlantic
    • North Africa
    • Italy in Greece and Yugoslavia
    • Operation Barbarossa
    • Pearl Harbor
    • Japan’s Need For Natural Resources
    • Turning Point 1943: Stalingrad, Kursk, El Alamein
    • Island Hopping
    • Invasion of Italy
    • D-Day
    • The Battle of the Bulge
    • Iwo Jima and Okinawa
    • The Manhattan Project
    • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • The Wartime Conferences: The Opening Shots of the Cold War
    • The Nuremburg Trials
    • Advances in Technology
  • 6.Early Cold War
    • A Bi-Polar World
    • The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
    • 1948 Coup in Czechoslovakia
    • Yugoslavia and Albania “Cracks in the Iron Curtain”
    • The Berlin Blockade/Airlift 1948
    • NATO and Warsaw Pact
    • The Korean War, 1950-53
    • Nikita Krushchev and De-Stalinization
    • The Hungarian Uprising, 1956
    • Eisenhower Doctrine
    • The Space Race and Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM’s)
    • The Rise of John F. Kennedy
    • The Berlin Wall, 1961
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
    • The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963
  • 7.Late Cold War
    • The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnam War
    • Ho Chi Minh and Vietcong
    • Vietnamization
    • The Leonid Brezhnev Era
    • Lyndon B. Johnson
    • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
    • Czechoslovakia, 1968
    • Richard Nixon and Detente
    • The Helsinki Accords, 1975
    • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) I and II 1972, 1974
    • Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
    • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
    • Ronald Reagan
    • Star Wars and Strategic Defense Initiative
    • Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Perestoika and Glasnost
    • The Falling of the Berlin Wall, 1989
    • Coup in Russia, 1991
  • 8.China
    • Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang
    • The Japanese and Manchuria
    • The Stimson Doctrine
    • The Long March, 1934
    • Chinese Civil War, 1946-1949
    • Mao Zedong
    • The Korean War and Yalu River
    • The Great Leap Forward, 1956
    • The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
    • Mao dies, 1976
    • Deng Xiaoping takes over, 1978
    • Special Economic Zones
    • Tiannamen Square, 1989
  • 9.The Middle East
    • Joe's Blog
    • Breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the French and English Mandates
    • The Balfour Declaration, 1917
    • The Israeli War of Independence, 1948
    • The Suez Crisis, 1956
    • The Six Days War, 1967
    • Anwar Sadat
    • The Yom Kippur War, 1973
    • The Camp David Accords, 1978
    • The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
    • Yasser Arafat
    • The Iran-Iraq War,1980-1988
    • Saddam Hussein
    • Kuwait and the Gulf War, 1991
  • 10.Human Rights
    • Blog
    • Apartheid and South African Human Rights Violations
    • African National Congress (ANC)
    • Nelson Mandela
    • Role of the United Nations (UN)
    • Pass Laws
    • Sharpeville Massacre
    • Soweto Massacre
    • The End of Apartheid
    • Amritsar, 1919
    • Mohandas Ghandi
    • Self Rule and the Salt March, 1929
    • Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League, 1947-48
    • Partition
    • India and Pakistan (Bangladesh)
    • Little Rock
    • Martin Luther King
    • Great Society
    • Black Panthers
    • Malcolm X
    • Universal Suffrage and the Right to Vote
    • Margaret Thatcher (The Falkland Islands War, 1982)
    • Ghandi and Women’s Rights
    • Golda Meir
    • Birth Control
    • Equal Pay
    • Benazir Bhutto
“If you don’t like us, don’t accept our invitations and don’t invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.”
Nikita Khrushchev, November 18, 1956

Mutually Assured Destruction

•MAD
•The testing of larger and larger weapons made this a major issue in the 1960s
•Partial Test Ban Treaty resulted after Cuban Missile Crisis and fear of MAD
•Became major focus for Richard Nixon as part of his détente policy

Summary

Mutually assured destruction was a big part of Nixon's detente.  It was the biggest deterrent in keeping the peace with nuclear weapons, however, people were still scared to death of it actually happening.
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