Notes 5/5

• Warsaw pact vs NATO
• Cuba had been a spanish colony
• It had gained independence and was supported by the US
• The united states saw themselves as a stabilizing agent in the region
• Che
• Kennedy plays his hand well and the soviets back down and the missiles are taken out of cuba
• Perestroika
• Gorbachev and Ronald Reagen will have a series of summit meetings ultimately producing a treaty between them
• Boris Yeltsin 
• The SALT treaty
• Strategic arms limitation talks
• Sputnik
• Soviets send it up into space
• America wonders how the soviets have surpassed them in science and technology
• 5 year plans!
• Ghana
• The first former british colony in Africa to become independent
• Post-colonialism

Multiple choice results

41/80

Notes 5/3

• The Philadelphia experiment- working on bombs

• in japan, US bombers had been targeting japanese cityies, including Tokyo
• They wipe out a huge part of Tokyo

Notes 5/2

• de-housing german workers word halt industrialization, or so they thought

Review: 

• The battle of Britain and the Blitz- 1940-1941
• German goes back on the non aggression treaty with Russia and attacks the soviet union
• Stalingrad
• United states will take on Japan 
• Atomic bombs are dropped
• American and British troops down through north Africa and up into Sicily
• D-day
• 1944- Dwight Eisenhower was the general of something
• The battle of Berlin 
• The marshall plan