The Contemporary World 1950 to the Present

A

Afghanistan
African National Congress (ANC)
African Union
AIDS crisis
Akihito
Algerian revolution
Allende, Salvador
Alliance for Progress
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
American Indian Movement (AIM)
Angola, Republic of
ANZUS Treaty
Appropriate technology
Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations
Arab-Israeli War (1956)
Arab-Israeli War (1967)
Arab-Israeli War (1973)
Arab-Israeli War (1982)
Arafat, Yasir (Yasser Arafat)
Arévalo, Juan José
Argentina, Madres de Plaza de Mayo
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Arms race, Atomic weapons
Art and architecture
((Asian Development Bank)
Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)?
Assad, Hafez al-?
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?
Aswa¯n Dam?
Aung San Suu Kyi?
Awami League?
Ayub Khan, Muhammad?

B

Ba’ath Party
baby boom, U.S.
Baghdad Pact/CENTO
Balkans (1991–present)
Baltic States (1991–present)
Banda, Hastings
Bandung Conference (Asian-African Conference)
Bangladesh, People’s Republic of
Bay of Pigs
Beat movement
Berlin blockade/airlift
Betancourt, Rómulo
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX)
Bhutto, Benazir
Bhutto, Zulfikar
Biafran War (1967–1970)
biblical inerrancy
Black Power movement
Bolivian revolution (1952–1964)
Bosch, Juan
Bourguiba, Habib
Bracero Program (1942–1964)
Brazil, military dictatorship in (1964–1985)
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich
Brown v. Board of Education
Bush, George H.W.
Bush, George W.

C

Canada after 1950
Caribbean Basin Initiative
Carter, Jimmy
Castro, Fidel
Central Asia after 1991
Chávez, Hugo
Chiang Ching-kuo
“Chicago Boys” (Chilean economists, 1973–1980s)
China, human rights and dissidents in
China, People’s Republic of
Chinese-Vietnamese conflict
Civil Rights movement, U.S.
Clinton, Bill (1946– ) and Hillary Rodham
(1947– )
cold war
Colombia, La Violencia in (1946–1966)
Comecon
Commonwealth of Nations
contra war (Nicaragua, 1980s)
counterculture in the United States and Europe
Cuban migration to the United States
Cuban missile crisis (October 1962)
Cuban revolution (1959– )
Cyprus, independence of
Cyprus, Turkish invasion of

D

Dalai Lama, 14th (Tenzin Gyatso)
Darfur
Day, Dorothy
Democratic Progressive Party and Chen Shui-bian
(Chen Shui-pien)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaïre)
Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p’ing)
disarmament, nuclear
drug wars, international
Dutch New Guinea/West Irian
Duvalier dictatorship (Haiti, 1957–1986)

E

Eastern bloc, collapse of the
East Timor
Ebadi, Shirin
Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA)
ecumenical movement
Egyptian revolution (1952)
El Salvador, revolution and civil war in (1970s–
1990s)
environmental disasters (anthropogenic)
environmental problems
Equal Rights Amendment
Eritrea
Ethiopia, Federal Democratic Republic of
European Economic Community/Common Market
European Union

F

Falklands War (1982)
Falun Gong
Fanon, Frantz
feminism, worldwide
Fonseca Amador, Carlos
Ford, Gerald
Free Speech Movement
FRELIMO

G

Gaitán, Jorge Eliécer
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi, Rajiv, and Sonia S.
Gang of Four and Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch’ing)
Gaulle, Charles de
gay liberation movements
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Germany (post–World War II)
Ghana
globalization
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Graham, Billy
Great Leap Forward in China (1958–1961)
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China
(1966–1976)
Great Society (U.S.)
Greek Junta
Green Revolution
Grenada, U.S. invasion of (1983)
Guatemala, civil war in (1960–1996)
Guevara, Ernesto “Che”
Gulf War, First (1991)
Gulf War, Second (Iraq War)

H

Hamas
Hável, Vaclav
Hizbollah
Ho Chi Minh
Hong Kong
Horn of Africa
Hu Jintao (Hu Chin-t’ao)
Hu Yaobang (Hu Yao-pang)
Huk Rebellion
Hundred Flowers Campaign in China (1956–1957)
Hungarian revolt (1956)
Hussein, Saddam

I

India
Indochina War (First and Second)
Indonesian Communist Party (PKI)
Indo-Pakistani Wars (Kashmir)
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
interstate highway system, U.S.
Intifada (first)
Intifada, al-Aqsa
Iran, contemporary
Iran-contra affair
Iran hostage crisis
Iranian revolution
Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988)
Iraq revolution (1958)
Iraq War
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Islamist movements

J

Janata Party
Al Jazeera
Jesus movement
Jiang Zemin (Chiang Tse-min)
John Paul II
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Jordan, Hashemite monarchy in

K

Karmal, Babrak
Karzai, Hamid
Kaunda, Kenneth
Kennedy, John F.
Kenya
Kenyatta, Jomo
Khan, Liaquat Ali
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khrushchev, Nikita
Kim Il Sung (1912–1994)/Kim Jong Il (1942– )
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Koizumi, Junichiro
Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea, Republic of
Korean War (1950–1953)
Kubitschek, Juscelino
Kurds
Kuwait
Kyoto Treaty

L

Latin American culture
Latin American politics
Latin American social issues
Lebanese civil war
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
Liberian civil wars (1989–1996 and 1999–2003)
Libya
Lin Biao (Lin Piao)
literature
Li Zongren (Li Tsung-jen)
Lumumba, Patrice

M

Macao (1999)
Macapagal-Arroyo, Gloria
Makarios III
Malaysia, Federation of
Malcolm X
Mandela, Nelson
Manley, Michael
Marcos, Ferdinand and Imelda
Marshall, Thurgood
Marshall Plan
McCarthyism
Meir, Golda
Menchú, Rigoberta
Mexico, agrarian reform in
Mobutu Sese Seko
Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott
Montoneros (Argentine urban guerrillas, 1970s)
Morocco
Mossadeq, Mohammad
Mountbatten, Louis, Lord
Mugabe, Robert
Musharraf, Pervez
music

N

Namibia
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
Ne Win
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Nepal civil war
Ngo Dinh Diem
Nguyen Van Thieu
Nicaraguan revolution (1979–1990)
Nigeria
Nixon, Richard
Nkrumah, Kwame
Noriega, Manuel
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Numeiri, Jaafar
Nunavut Territory, Canada
Nyerere, Julius

O

Olympics (1950–present)
Organization of American States (OAS)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC)

P

Pakistan People’s Party
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Park Chung Hee
Pathet Lao
Paz Estenssoro, Victor
Peace Corps, U.S.
Perón, Juan Domingo
Philippine revolution (1986)
Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto
Poland (1991–present)
Pol Pot
Portugal (1930–present)
Prague Spring
presidential impeachment, U.S.
Putin, Vladimir

Q

Qaddafi, Muammar
al-Qaeda
Quebec sovereignty movement
Qutb, Sayyid

R

Rabin, Yitzhak
Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur
Reagan, Ronald
Rhee, Syngman
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe independence movements
Roe v. Wade
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel
Russian Federation
Rwanda/Burundi conflict

S

Sahel, ecological crisis in
San Francisco, treaty of
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Saudi Arabia
School of the Americas
Shanghai Communiqué
Shastri, Lal Bahadur
Shining Path
Silva, Luiz Inácio Lula da
Singapore
Singh, Manmohan
Sino-Soviet Treaty (1950)
Solidarity movement
Somalia (1950–2006)
South East Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO)
Southern Baptist Convention
Soviet Union, dissolution of the
space exploration
Spain
Sri Lanka
St. Lawrence Seaway
student movements (1960s)
suburbanization, U.S.
Sudanese civil wars (1970–present)
Suharto, Haji Mohammad
Sukarno, Ahmed

T

Taiwan (Republic of China)
Taliban
Tamil Tigers
Tashkent Agreement
Tlatelolco massacre (1968)
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
Teresa of Calcutta, Mother
terrorism
Thatcher, Margaret
Third World/Global South
Tiananmen Square massacre
Tibetan Revolt (1959)
Tito, Marshal
Togo
Torrijos, Omar
Touré, Ahmed Sékou
Trudeau, Pierre
Turabi, Hassan ‘abd Allah al-
Turkey

U

Uganda (1950–present)
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
United Arab Republic (UAR)
United Nations
U Nu
U.S.-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty
U.S. relations with China (Nixon)
U.S.-Republic of Korea Mutual Defense
Treaty
U.S.-Taiwan Mutual Defense Treaty

V

Vajpayee, Atal Bihari
Vatican II Council (1962–1965)
Velasco Ibarra, José
Vietnam, Democratic Republic of
Vietnam, Republic of
Vietnam War
Vo Nguyen Giap
Vorster, B.J.

W

Wajed, Sheikh Hasina
Warsaw Pact
Watergate scandal
Wen Jiabao (Wen Chia-pao)
Western Saharan War
World Bank
World Trade Center, September 11, 2001

Y

Yahya Khan
Yeltsin, Boris
Yemen
Yoshida Shigeru
Yugoslavia, breakup and war in

Z

Zapatistas
Zhou Enlai (Chou En-lai)
Zia, Khaleda
Zia-ul-Haq, Mohammad

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