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Origins of the Cold War
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The Truman Doctrine
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The Marshall Plan
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The People’s Republic of China
Social and Economic Transformations
Beijing-Moscow Relations
Communism and Democracy in China
Decolonization
in Asia
India
partition and beyond
India
“Vivisection” of India
Death of Gandhi
Indian Democracy
SE Asia
30 years of conflict in Vietnam
Nationalism rises in Vietnam
US involvement in Vietnam
Central Asia
Afghanistan and the USSR
USSR in Afghanistan
Africa
Decolonization and beyond
Decolonization in Africa
France and North Africa
Algerian War of Liberation
Négritude: “Blackness”
Post-Independence Difficulties
Afrocentrism
Post-Independence Africa
Establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU)
South Africa
Middle East
The Issue of Palestine
Creation of the modern state of Israel
Settlement attempt
The Six-Day War (June 1967)
South & Central America
Developments in Latin America
End of the Cold War
and beyond!
Détente
USSR Collapse
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Revolutions in Eastern and Central Europe
Islamic change
Iranian Revolution
The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
South Africa: Dismantling of Apartheid
Congo
Rwanda: Perils of Ethnicity