Transcript intercontinental ballistic missile

Zhou Enlai
Khrushchev,
how could you
call for peaceful
co-existence
with the west?
How could you
capitulate in the
Cuban Missile
Crisis?
Mao, this Treaty of
Friendship and Alliance is
over!
China’s Cultural Revolution Begins in
1965
The aim of the Cultural Revolution
was to attack the Four Olds-- old
ideas, old culture, old customs, and
old habits--in order to bring the areas
of education, art and literature in line
with Communist ideology. Anything
that was suspected of being feudal or
bourgeois was to be destroyed.
Chinese poster saying: "We'll destroy old world and build
new." Classical example of the Red art from the early
Cultural Revolution. Worker crushes the crucifix, Buddha
and classical Chinese texts with his hammer; 1966
Chinese poster saying: "Let new socialistic culture conquer
every stage.", 1967
Many young Chinese were enthusiastic about the prospect of "being
politically influential at such a young age." With Little Red Books in their
hands, squads of Red Guards formed and began to go from house to
house looking for potential elements of corruption, which sometimes
included teachers, relatives, and then their own families. The accusations
against their opponents sometimes became ridiculous as well.
Punishments could be exceptionally cruel. The number of people who
perished during the period was estimated by some to be in the millions.
Cover of the Little Red Book
containing the doctrines of the Red
Guards
Chinese Red Guards shout slogans while parading with portraits of
Mao Zedong in downtown Beijing, supporting the Cultural Revolution,
1967.
President Nixon and National
Security Advisor Henry Kissinger
Détente:
a French term, meaning a relaxing or easing; the term has been used in international
politics since the early 1970s. Generally, it may be applied to any international
situation where previously hostile nations not involved in an open war "warm up" to
each other and threats de-escalate. However, it is primarily used in reference to the
general reduction in the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and
a thawing of the Cold War, occurring from the late 1960s until the start of the 1980s.
SALT
(Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
•Refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding treaties between the U.S. and U.S.S.R on the
issue of the type and number of arms each side could have
•SALT I (1969 – 1972) leads to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty). This treaty allows for each
side to one ABM missile site
In 2002, President George W.
Bush withdrew the United States
from the ABM Treaty
SALT II (1972 – 1979)
• A second round of talks between the U.S. and Soviet Union
• Purpose of Salt II was mutual restraint in terms of nuclear weapon
development
• The SALT II Treaty would have provided for each country to maintain an
equal amount of launchers of nuclear weapons and a ban on certain
launchers
• The SALT II Treaty was completed in 1979. However, the U.S. Senate
never ratifies the treaty. Regardless, President Carter vows that the U.S. will
follow the treaty in principle.
Willy Brandt
PING PONG DIPLOMACY
Three-Time World Men's Singles
Champion Zhuang Zedong (left) and
U.S. team member Glenn Cowan
(right) on the Chinese team bus in
1971.
President Nixon speaking with a young
Chinese girl at West Lake in Hangchow,
Feb. 26, 1972.
Nixon and Brezhnev
Salvador Allende
• On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military overthrew president Salvador
Allende, General Augusto Pinochet exploited the situation to seize total power and
establish an anti-communist military dictatorship which lasted until 1990.
• While U.S. government hostility to the Allende regime is unquestioned, the U.S.
role in the coup itself remains a controversial matter. Documents declassified
during the Clinton Administration show that the U.S. government and the CIA had
sought the overthrow of Allende in 1970, immediately after he took office but claims
of their direct involvement in the actual coup are neither proven nor contradicted by
publicly available documentary evidence; many potentially relevant documents still
remain classified. Regarding Pinochet's rise to power, the CIA undertook a
comprehensive analysis of its records and individual memoirs as well as
conducting interviews with former agents, and concluded in a report issued in 2000
that the CIA "did not assist Pinochet to assume the Presidency."
In a 2003 interview on the U.S. television, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was
asked about why the United States saw itself as the "moral superior" in the Iraq
conflict, citing the Chilean coup as an example of U.S. intervention that went
against the wishes of the local population. Powell responded: "With respect to your
earlier comments about Chile in the 1970s and what happened with Mr. Allende, it
is not a part of American history that we're proud of." Chilean newspapers hailed
the news as the first time the U.S. government had conceded a role in the affair.
Chilean Presidential Palace being firebombed
Last photograph of Allende alive
General Augusto Pinochet (sitting) as President
following the coup (1973)
Pinochet ordered the torture and death
of thousands of leftists during his
regime (1973 – 1990), including the air
force general father of Chilean
President Michelle Bachelet. Over 3,000
people disappeared during his rule.
Tens-of-thousands more fled the
country.
Bachelet herself was tortured before
being sent to exile in Australia.
He was the most notorious and
ruthless of Latin American dictators
during the Cold War era
Celebrating the death of Pinochet
12/10/06
Violence breaks out in Santiago
following Pinochet’s death
12/10/06
Anwar Sadat
Israel before
the Six Days
War, 1967
Israel after the
Six Days War,
1967
Israel after the
Yom Kippur War,
1973
Israel after
returning the Sinai
Peninsula in IsraelEgypt Treaty, 1979
Military helicopter evacuating
U.S. Embassy in Saigon
April 30th, 1975
U.S. took as many South Vietnamese
with them as possible
Marcelo Caetano
Formally brought to an end in 2002, an estimated 500,000 people were killed and
tens of thousands more were displaced during the 27-year civil war.
President Gerald Ford with Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney,
1975. Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense, and Cheney was Chief of
Staff
Ford became the longest lived President ever on 11/16/2006. He
died a month later at 93 years old.
Five Presidents together at opening of Reagan Library
Jimmy Carter
An intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, is a very long-range (greater than
5,500 km or 3,500 miles) ballistic missile typically designed for nuclear weapons
delivery.
Begin, Carter and Sadat at Camp David
During his time in power Pol Pot instigated an aggressive policy of relocating people
to the countryside in an attempt to purify the Cambodian people as a step toward a
communist future. The means to this end included the extermination of intellectuals
and other “bourgeois enemies". Today the excesses of his government are widely
blamed for causing the deaths of up to three million Cambodians.
Iranian
students burn
the U.S. flag
shortly after
taking over the
U.S. embassy
in Tehran,
1979.
A blindfolded American hostage being
led by Iranian students
Ruhollah Khomeini