Challenging the Postwar Order
1. 1961
-------- Building of Berlin Wall suggests permanence of the East Bloc Helsinki Accords Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Dissolution of the Soviet Union Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan OPEC oil embargo Peak of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; “May Events” protests in France Mikhail Gorbachev named Soviet premier United States and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treaty Fall of communism in eastern Europe
2. 1964- 1973
-------- Building of Berlin Wall suggests permanence of the East Bloc Helsinki Accords Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Dissolution of the Soviet Union Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan OPEC oil embargo Peak of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; “May Events” protests in France Mikhail Gorbachev named Soviet premier United States and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treaty Fall of communism in eastern Europe
3. 1968
-------- Building of Berlin Wall suggests permanence of the East Bloc Helsinki Accords Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Dissolution of the Soviet Union Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan OPEC oil embargo Peak of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; “May Events” protests in France Mikhail Gorbachev named Soviet premier United States and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treaty Fall of communism in eastern Europe
4. 1973
-------- Building of Berlin Wall suggests permanence of the East Bloc Helsinki Accords Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Dissolution of the Soviet Union Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan OPEC oil embargo Peak of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; “May Events” protests in France Mikhail Gorbachev named Soviet premier United States and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treaty Fall of communism in eastern Europe
5. 1975
-------- Building of Berlin Wall suggests permanence of the East Bloc Helsinki Accords Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Dissolution of the Soviet Union Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan OPEC oil embargo Peak of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; “May Events” protests in France Mikhail Gorbachev named Soviet premier United States and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treaty Fall of communism in eastern Europe
6. 1979
-------- Building of Berlin Wall suggests permanence of the East Bloc Helsinki Accords Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Dissolution of the Soviet Union Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan OPEC oil embargo Peak of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; “May Events” protests in France Mikhail Gorbachev named Soviet premier United States and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treaty Fall of communism in eastern Europe
7. 1985
-------- Building of Berlin Wall suggests permanence of the East Bloc Helsinki Accords Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Dissolution of the Soviet Union Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan OPEC oil embargo Peak of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; “May Events” protests in France Mikhail Gorbachev named Soviet premier United States and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treaty Fall of communism in eastern Europe
8. 1987
-------- Building of Berlin Wall suggests permanence of the East Bloc Helsinki Accords Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Dissolution of the Soviet Union Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan OPEC oil embargo Peak of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; “May Events” protests in France Mikhail Gorbachev named Soviet premier United States and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treaty Fall of communism in eastern Europe
9. 1989
-------- Building of Berlin Wall suggests permanence of the East Bloc Helsinki Accords Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Dissolution of the Soviet Union Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan OPEC oil embargo Peak of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; “May Events” protests in France Mikhail Gorbachev named Soviet premier United States and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treaty Fall of communism in eastern Europe
10. 1989- 1991
-------- Building of Berlin Wall suggests permanence of the East Bloc Helsinki Accords Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Dissolution of the Soviet Union Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan OPEC oil embargo Peak of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; “May Events” protests in France Mikhail Gorbachev named Soviet premier United States and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treaty Fall of communism in eastern Europe
11. December 1991
-------- Building of Berlin Wall suggests permanence of the East Bloc Helsinki Accords Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Dissolution of the Soviet Union Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan OPEC oil embargo Peak of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; “May Events” protests in France Mikhail Gorbachev named Soviet premier United States and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treaty Fall of communism in eastern Europe