anchor dates for unit 9
1947
Marshall plan truman doctrine
2018
Brexit vote
1949
End of Berlin Airlift- Creation of East/West Germany and NATO and COMECON formed
2001
9/11 attack
1949
communist revolution in China
2002
euro replaces national currencies in Eurozone
1955
Birth of Commercial TV in Britain
1995
End of Civil war in former Yugoslavia
1962
2nd Vatican Council and Algeria wins independence from france
1993
European Union formed (based on Maastricht treaty, signed in 1992)
1968
Prague spring and “may ‘68” riots and strike in paris
1991
End of soviet union
1969
apollo 11 mission to the moon
1861-1989
berlin wall
1969
peak of Vietnam war
1985
Gorbachev begins Glasnost/Perestroika
1969
formation of Gay liberation front (first in NYC, then england)
1969
Last beatles album