MODERN HISTORY LUKE CASHMAN / KATRINA DAVEY / LUCA FINANZIO / HUW LEWIS / PHILLIP O’BRIEN / NATALIE SHEPHARD / RACHEL TOWNS / STEPHEN WHITE HTAV • SAMPLE PAGES SECTION A TEXT? i HTAV • SAMPLE PAGES • ISBN 978-1-922481-10-8 • www.htavshop.com.au Czechoslovakia ..................................................................78 Operation Rolling Thunder ...................................... 119 The Prague Spring ...................................................... 78 Australia’s involvement ........................................... 120 An Unconventional War ............................................................121 SNAPSHOT THE KOREAN WAR ....................................80 Key Battles .......................................................................122 Introduction .......................................................................81 CONTENTS The Battle of Long Tan............................................. 122 Stages of the War ...............................................................81 The Tet Offensive ..................................................... 123 North Korea invades .................................................. 81 Growing Opposition to the War ......................................124 Acknowledgements .............................................................vi The UN intervenes ..................................................... 81 The My Lai Massacre ................................................ 124 US forces land at Inchon ............................................ 82 Change and Conflict ..........................................................viii Winning Hearts and Minds ...................................... 125 China intervenes ........................................................ 82 Ideology and Conflict .........................................................xii The Shooting of Nguyen Van Lem ..........................................126 Stalemate ................................................................... 82 Social and Cultural Change ................................................xii The anti-war movement .......................................... 127 Armistice ..................................................................... 83 The Media and the Vietnam War ...........................................128 Impact on the Cold War .....................................................83 De-escalation of the Conflict ..........................................129 SECTION A CHAPTER 4 THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS ...................... 84 Peace talks with North Vietnam ............................. 129 The Cuban Revolution ........................................................86 Further de-escalation .............................................. 130 Perspectives on the Paris Peace Accords ...............................131 SNAPSHOT THE SUPERPOWERS AFTER CHAPTER 2 COLD WAR TENSIONS ...............................40 Trouble in the tropics ................................................ 86 Communist Victory: The Fall of Saigon ...........................132 WORLD WAR II ............................................................ 4 Berlin Blockade ...................................................................42 Batista’s Golden Telephone ........................................................ 86 The Chocolate Flier ...................................................................... 44 Castro’s left turn ........................................................ 87 Consequences of the Vietnam War .................................133 SNAPSHOT IDEOLOGIES AND ‘ISMs’ ............................. 6 Responses in the West ............................................. 133 Alliances Established..........................................................45 Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara ................................................................. 88 Introduction .........................................................................7 Long-term consequences for Vietnam .................... 134 NATO ........................................................................... 45 Missiles to Cuba ..................................................................89 Chapter 4 Review .............................................................135 CHAPTER 1 CAUSES OF THE COLD WAR ......................... 8 The division of Germany ........................................... 46 The Bay of Pigs ........................................................... 89 Operation Mongoose................................................................... 91 Yalta Conference.................................................................10 Warsaw Pact ............................................................... 46 CHAPTER 5 THE END OF THE COLD WAR ...................136 A golden opportunity ................................................ 92 Stunde Null (Zero Hour) ............................................. 13 Death of Stalin ............................................................................. 46 The Winds of Change ................................................................138 Khrushchev’s motives ................................................ 94 Potsdam Conference ..........................................................15 New Leaders, Big Speeches ................................................47 The Second Cold War .......................................................139 Operation Anadyr ........................................................................ 95 At Potsdam: Perspectives on the Conversation Eisenhower ................................................................. 47 Détente, 1963–1979 ................................................ 139 Deception and discovery ...................................................95 about the Atomic Bomb ............................................................. 17 Khrushchev ................................................................. 48 Détente in the 1960s ...................................... 139 The missiles discovered ............................................. 96 Analysing a Source....................................................................... 18 Cold War: Historical Interpretations ........................................ 50 Détente in the 1970s ..................................... 140 Thirteen Days .....................................................................97 Cold War Symbols ........................................................................ 20 Historical Perspectives: Focus on Reliability Renewed tensions between the superpowers ....... 142 All the president’s choices ......................................... 97 Atomic Diplomacy ..............................................................21 and Usefulness ............................................................................. 52 The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan .............. 142 The Thirteen Days ......................................................................100 Japanese occupation.................................................. 23 The Red Scare .....................................................................54 Missiles in Europe .......................................... 144 Closer than Anyone Knew .........................................................103 Iron Curtain .........................................................................24 Un-American activities .............................................. 55 The election of Ronald Reagan ............................... 145 Key Documents from the Crisis ...............................................104 The ‘Long Telegram’ ..................................................................... 25 McCarthyism ................................................................................. 56 A new arms race ............................................. 146 The Man who Saved the World ...............................................106 ‘Salami’ Tactics ...................................................................27 Arms Race ..........................................................................58 Star Wars ........................................................ 146 Détente, Dismissal and Death ..........................................107 Truman Doctrine .................................................................29 Duck and cover ........................................................... 61 Maintaining the pressure .............................. 147 Space Race ..........................................................................63 The fate of leaders................................................... 108 Marshall Plan ......................................................................32 Kennedy .......................................................... 108 The End of the Cold War ..................................................148 Chapter 2 Review ...............................................................65 Chapter 1 Review ...............................................................35 Khrushchev ..................................................... 108 Mikhail Gorbachev ................................................... 148 SNAPSHOT STASILAND: LIFE IN EAST GERMANY .........66 Castro .............................................................. 108 The Soviet economic crisis ...................................... 149 Grain and oil ................................................... 149 Living under Communism ..................................................67 Chapter 3 Review .............................................................109