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