The document summarizes major global events and social movements from the post-World War II era through the late 20th century, including the rise of communism in the Soviet Union and China, the Red Scare and Korean War in the US, the Berlin Wall and space race between the US and Soviet Union, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, presidency of Nixon, Ford and Carter, fall of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War, and the American civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. It provides bibliographic sources for further information on these topics.