Isolationism Good neighbour policy, Relations with Japan, Neutrality Acts, Lend – Lease / Atlantic Charter
Pearl Harbour War in Europe War in the Pacific Atomic Bomb World War 2 Pearl Harbour War in Europe War in the Pacific Atomic Bomb
Yalta / Potsdam Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Cold War Yalta / Potsdam Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift 1948/9
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Vietnam 1954 1964 1973
SALT I and II Helsinki Agreements Apollo-Soyuz China Détente SALT I and II Helsinki Agreements Apollo-Soyuz China
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Regan and SDI (Star Wars) The ‘second Cold War’ Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Regan and SDI (Star Wars)
End of the Cold War Gorbachev’s new policies – Glasnost (Openness) and Perestroika (Restructuring) Fall of the Berlin Wall Collapse of the Soviet Union
US involvement in the Middle East Iran – 1979-1982 (444 days) Gulf War -1990/91