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  • Paris Peace Treaty
  • Russia 1917-1945
    • Feb./March Revolution 1917 / Provisional Government
    • The Bolsheviks: October/November Revolition 1917
    • Grigori Rasputin
    • Vladimir Lenin/Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918
    • Russian Civil War 1919-21
    • War Communism
    • "Socialism in One Country" Lenin's Death and the Power Struggle/Leon Trotsky Vs. Joseph Stalin
    • 5 year plans 1928-1941, Industrialization, and Collectivization
    • Show Trials and the Great Purges
    • Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
    • Operation Barbarossa
    • Stalingrad
  • Boom and Bust- USA in the 20s and 30s
    • Boom Time: Society in the 20's
    • Henry Ford, Assembly Lines and the Model T
    • Isolationsm
    • The Washington Naval Conference, 1921
    • The Dawes Plan, 1924 / The Young Plan, 1929
    • Buying on Margin
    • Black Tuesday, October 22, 1929: Stock Market Crash
    • Causes of the Great Depression
    • Herbert Hoover and Hoovervilles
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 100 Days
    • The New Deal
    • Alphabet Agencies
    • John Maynard Keynes
    • Fireside Chats
  • The Rise of Fascism-Europe in the 20's and 30's
    • The Weimar Republic
    • The Maginot Line
    • Uprisings in the early 1920's and Mein Kampf
    • Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism
    • Locarno and Kellogg-Briand Pacts
    • Gustaf Stresemann and the Dawes Plan
    • Acts of Appeasement
    • The Spanish Civil War
    • Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
    • Anti Semitism and the Holocaust
  • World War II
    • The Invasion of Poland
    • The invasion of Norway and Low Countries
    • Invasion of France (Dunkirk)
    • The Battle of Britain (Operation Sea Lion)
    • The Battle of the Atlantic
    • Italy in Greece and Yugoslavia
    • Operation Barbarossa
    • Japan's Need for Natural Resources/Pearl Harbour
    • Turning Point 1943: Stalingrad, Kursk, El Alamein (North Africa)
    • Island Hopping
    • Invasion of Italy
    • D-Day
    • The Fall of Germany and Hitler's Death/The Battle of the Bulge
    • Hiroshima and Nagasaki/Iwo Jima and Okanawa/The Manhattan Project
    • The Wartime Conferences: The Opening Shots of the Cold War/Nuremberg Trials
    • Advances in Technology
  • Early Cold War
    • A Bi-Polar World
    • The Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan/Eisenhower Doctrine
    • 1948 Coup in Czechoslovakia
    • Yugoslavia and Albania “Cracks in the Iron Curtain”
    • The Berlin Blockade/Airlift 1948
    • NATO and Warsaw Pact
    • The Korean War, 1950-53
    • Nikita Krushchev and De-Stalinization
    • The Hungarian Uprising, 1956
    • The Space Race and Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM’s)
    • The Rise of John F. Kennedy/The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963
    • The Berlin Wall, 1961/The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
  • The Late Cold War
    • The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnam War
    • Ho Chi Minh and Vietcong
    • Vietnamization
    • The Leonid Brezhnev Era
    • Lyndon B. Johnson
    • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
    • Czechoslovakia, 1968
    • Richard Nixon and Detente
    • Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
    • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) I and II 1972, 1974
    • The Helsinki Accords, 1975
    • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
    • Ronald Reagan
    • Star Wars and Strategic Defense Initiative
    • Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Perestoika and Glasnost
    • Coup in Russia, 1991
    • The Falling of the Berlin Wall, 1989
  • China, 1919-1991
    • Sun Yat Sen and the Kuomintang
    • Chiang Kai-Shek
    • The Chinese Communist Party
    • The Japanese and Manchuria
    • The Stimson Doctrine
    • The Long March, 1934
    • Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong)
    • Chinese Civil War, 1946-1949
    • Taiwan
    • The Korean War and Yalu River
    • The Great Leap Forward, 1956
    • The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
    • Mao dies, 1976
    • Deng Xiaoping takes over, 1978
    • Special Economic Zones
    • Tiannamen Square, 1989
  • The Middle East 1919-1991
    • Breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the French and English Mandates
    • The Balfour Declaration, 1917
    • The Israeli War of Independence, 1948
    • The Suez Crisis, 1956
    • The Six Days War, 1967
    • The Yom Kippur War, 1973
    • Anwar Sadat
    • The Camp David Accords, 1978
    • The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
    • The Iran-Iraq War,1980-1988
    • Yasser Arafat
    • Saddam Hussein
    • Kuwait and the Gulf War, 1991
  • Human Rights, Civil Rights, Women's Rights, (India, South Africa)
    • Apartheid and South African Human Rights Violations
    • Nelson Mandela
    • Soweto Massacre
    • Sharpeville Massacre
    • Pass Laws
    • Role of the United Nations (UN)
    • African National Congress (ANC)
    • Mohandas Ghandi
    • Amritsar, 1919
    • Self Rule and the Salt March, 1929
    • Partition
    • Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League, 1947-48
    • India and Pakistan (Bangladesh)
    • Martin Luther King
    • Great Society
    • Malcolm X
    • Black Panthers
    • Little Rock
    • Universal Suffrage and the Right to Vote
    • Margaret Thatcher (The Falkland Islands War, 1982)
    • Ghandi and Women’s Rights
    • Golda Meir
    • Benazir Bhutto
    • Birth Control
    • Equal Pay

Sharpeville Massacre 

- Protest outside police station in Sharpeville
- Burnt their pass law
- Police opened fire 67 killed
- ANC outlawed
- Ended non-violent act
- Terrorist attacks continue
- New law allowed police could arrest without warrant
- Nelson Mandela arrested and prison for life 1964
Sharpeville is the beginning of Mandela’s imprisonment, he will spend nearly three decades in Robin island

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