People
Places
Terms
Events
Dates to Remember
100

led rebellion in Yugoslavia

Joseph Tito

100

headquarters of the United Nations

New York City

100

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization- established to combat the Communist threat to the free world

100
the war fought with words and diplomacy

Cold War

100
organization of the United Nations; conference at Yalta

1945

200

called for a New World Order

George H.W. Bush

200

invaded by Saddam Hussein beginning the Persian Gulf War

Kuwait

200

global push to unite the nations of the world for the purpose of obtaining and maintaining global peace

New World Order

200
massive air offensive against Iraq by United States and UN coalition forces

Persian Gulf War

200

Korean War

1950-1953

300

headed the Nationalist government

Chiang Kai-shek

300

Birthplace of modern architecture

Chicago

300

exchanges the natural shape of objects for abstract images by using geometric shapes to represent what the artist sees

cubism

300

the place where the invasion of Cuban rebels was thwarted when President Kennedy failed to supply air cover to the patriots

Bay of Pigs

300

1989

Berlin Wall came down

400

followed Yeltsin as Russian president

Vladimir Putin

400

Island Fidel Castro planned to take over as a military base to invade the mainland of South America

Grenada

400

"iron curtain"

phrase coined by Winston Churchill to describe the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe

400

Vietnam Conflict

the attempt to defend the freedom of South Vietnam; ended with Communist control of all Vietnam

400

Collapse of the Soviet Union

1991

500

the powerful Muslim religious leader whose followers took American diplomatic personnel hostage

Ayatollah Khomeini

500

South Vietnam's capital; fell to Communists in 1975

Saigon

500

division of North and South Korea

17th parallel

500

Operation Airlift

airlift where Western powers saved the people of West Berlin by flying food and supplies for over a year

500

1949

organization of NATO; Chiang Kai-shek's army forced to flee to Taiwan

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