Notes for Chapters 4 and 5.

Chapter 5 Notes:

- United Nations are established.

- Encouraged for countries to join and maintain peace between each other.

- However there are problems with the UN, because there were many powerful leaders.

- Each wanted their own way.

- US believed they were going to win the Cold War, but that was not so.

- President’s lies are exposed. Such as the U-2 planes.

- Even though the presidents lied, people still like them.

- CIA breaks the law, so a new group is formed to keep an eye on the CIA.

- Vietnam War kills a lot of Americans, and they had no safe place to go to.

- Pinochet comes to power, but he is a mean dictator.

- Détente is created to lower nuclear risk.

- USSR makes a fine for the immigrants that want to leave the country.

- Nixon makes bad decisions for his country.

- Nixon decided it would be for the best to make Cold war happen on his ground, but that was a bad move.

- Watergate weakens Nixon, his authority begins to crumble.

- Wars Power Act is a 60 day limit on future military deployments without the consent of Congress.

- Nixon vetoes, but it does not work.

- He bombs Cambodia.

- 1974 Nixon resigns.

- Brezhnev Doctrine, He wants to control everything.

- Tightens the rules on the media and arts.

- Helsinki is the conference on Security and cooperation’s in Europe. Signed in 1975.

- USA Ford and Kissinger were accused for abandoning the human rights.

- Havel went to jail.

- Pope came to Poland which was his homeland.

Chapter 4:

- Khrushchev makes many mistakes.

- There is a domino affect, if one country accepts communism, other countries will follow.

- US is worried that countries will become communist.

- A lot of countries try to stay neutral throughout the Cold War.

- Nasser chooses to be neither communist nor capitalist. Uses the situation to his advantage.

- Korea splits in 2.

- USSR supports North Korea, US supports South Korea.

- Kennedy and Diem are assassinated.

- Johnson is afraid to go to war because of fear.

- Germany is still divided; no one knows how to find peace in Germany.

- Ulbricht wants to build a wall, but does not tell USSR about his decision.

- USA takes a lot away from France; France begins to question their actions.

- There are a lot of wars happening at home.

- Baby Boom- there are a lot more educated people.

- Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated with Kennedy.

- China has a Cultural Revolution on their hands.

- Soviet Union’s and Chinese relations get bad.

- US wants to start working with the Chinese government.