Timeline

1957   Sputnik

1961   Yuri Gagarin first human in space

1962   Cuban Missile Crisis

1969   United States lands on the moon

1969   SALT treaty

1983   Reagan and “Star Wars”

1989   Collapse of the Eastern Block

I. Persistent concepts

Cold War competition especially in former colonies

Emerging democracies, especially in the former Soviet Block

Resource conflict

Population growth and economic development

Technology driven superiority – Space race

II. Modernization and Popular Culture

Andy Warhol

Jasper Johns

III. Collapse of the Eastern Block

Mikhail Gorbachev

Russia – glasnost (openness) & perestroika (restructuring)

Lech Walesa

Slobodan Milosevich

IV. Increasing Global Connection

United Nations – created 1945

Non-Aligned Movement – created 1961

OPEC – created 1960

11 countries control 77% of world’s oil supply

Oil embargo in 1973 increased price of oil by 70%

V. Emerging issues

Ecological – Diseases - HIV, Tuberculosis, Malaria, SARS

Population – China, India

Environment – deforestation, desertification, warming, pollution

Energy – Renewable energy, nuclear power

Military – Disarmament, “rouge states”, terrorism

Economy – Emerging markets, EU.

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