Foraging Societies

Settled Agriculture

Primary Urbanization

Classical Empires

• Early River Valley Empires
• Expansion and Contraction of Empires
• Cosmopolitan Empires

• Formation of Eurasian Ecumene
• Barbarian Invasions
• Islamic Expansion
• Mongol Dominance
• Second Islamic Age

Unification of the Hemispheres

• Voyages of Exploration
• Chinese Dominance
• The New Imperialism

Formation of World Culture

• Modern Western Civilization
• The New Imperialism
• The World Wars
• Decolonization
• After the Cold War

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1945-1961: The Yalta System Breaks Down 1947: The Truman Doctrine. 1949: NATO Treaty signed. 1949: Communists take power in China; Nationalists retreat to Taiwan 1950: Korean War begins. 1953: Armistice ends fighting in the Korean War. 1955: Warsaw Pact is formed 1961: Bay of Pigs invasion. 1956-1975: Toward Peaceful Coexistence 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis. 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Vietnam War Chronology 1965: President Johnson begins escalation of US role in Vietnamese Civil War. 1972: US withdraws from Vietnam. 1972: SALT Treaty signed 1972: Nixon visits China 1975-1989: The End of the Soviet System 1979: The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan 1985: Gorbachev begins policy of "Perestroika" 1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall; The Cold War ends. 1989: Tiananmen Square Massacre in China

Resources Primary Sources Churchill: Iron Curtain Speech Secondary Sources

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