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1 I. The Origins of the Cold War
II. Postwar Economic Recovery in Europe, Japan, and the Soviet Union III. The Welfare State and Social Transformation Copyright © 2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman

2 Potsdam Conference (July, 1945)
Context: The war in Asia was still going on (Stalin reiterated his promise to enter the war agst. Japan 90 days after end of war in Europe.) The news that the bomb was viable changed this equation. Agreements reiterated UN is still to go forward with US & USSR as charter members War Crimes trials to be conducted despite lack of a body of international law. Efforts to invoke Kellogg-Briand pact. Treaties were to be reached with Axis powers: Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Finland. Germany and Austria were to be divided into 4 zones of occupation. Realities Red Army in occupation of Eastern Europe. Of the original 3 leaders, only Stalin remained - Churchill and Roosevelt not part with inexperienced new leaders present. Stalin feels confident. The bomb and its implications unclear. Copyright © 2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman

3 What happened to Stalin?
Lavrenti Beria: Head of MVD (Ministry of State Security) What happened to Stalin? 1953 Khrushchev Nikolai Bulganin

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10 The Division of Germany
I. The Origins of the Cold War A. The World in Two Blocs The Division of Germany Four Occupation Zones Soviet Blockade Berlin Airlift The Soviet Bloc Finland, East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary NATO and Other Treaty Alliances NATO SEATO CENTO , Warsaw Pact alliance B. The Nuclear Club Sputnik I, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963 The Division of Germany Copyright © 2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman

11 The Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc
I. The Origins of the Cold War A. The World in Two Blocs The Division of Germany Four Occupation Zones Soviet Blockade Berlin Airlift The Soviet Bloc. Finland, East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary NATO and Other Treaty Alliances. NATO SEATO CENTO , Warsaw Pact alliance B. The Nuclear Club Sputnik I, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963 The Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc Copyright © 2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman

12 U.S. and Soviet Alliances
I. The Origins of the Cold War A. The World in Two Blocs The Division of Germany Four Occupation Zones Soviet Blockade Berlin Airlift The Soviet Bloc. Finland East Germany Poland Bulgaria Romania Czechoslovakia Hungary NATO and Other Treaty Alliances NATO SEATO CENTO , Warsaw Pact alliance B. The Nuclear Club Sputnik I, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963 U.S. and Soviet Alliances Copyright © 2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman

13 I. The Origins of the Cold War
C. Decolonization and the Cold War Asia Gandhi , Korea Decolonization Copyright © 2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman

14 I. The Origins of the Cold War
C. Decolonization and the Cold War Africa Ghana, Nkrumah Pan-African Federation Ghana, Kenyatta in 1962 The Middle East Israel, 1948 Latin America , Cuban Missile Crisis Decolonization Copyright © 2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman

15 Decolonization Copyright © 2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman

16 II. Postwar Economic Recovery in Europe, Japan, and the Soviet Union
A. The Economic Challenge B. The Economic Solution: The Marshall Plan U.S. Secretary of State, George C. Marshall , The European Recovery Act C. Western European Economic Integration John Maynard Keynes The Office of European Economic Cooperation Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg > Benelux Schuman Plan, France and Germany European Economic Community, 1957 France, Germany, Benelux Common Market Copyright © 2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman

17 II. Postwar Economic Recovery in Europe, Japan, and the Soviet Union D. Japan’s Recovery
Douglas MacArthur E. The Soviet Path to Economic Recovery COMECON Nikita Khrushchev Gomulka, Poland Hungary Imre Nagy, 1956 1961, Berlin Czechoslovakia Alexander Dubcek , Soviet Invasion “Prague Spring” Yugoslavia Tito Copyright © 2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman

18 III. The Welfare State and Social Transformation
A. Prosperity and Consumption in the West The New Consumption Women’s Wages B. Family Strategies Birth Control Women’s Protest Simone de Beauvoir Betty Friedan C. Youth Culture and Dissent The Sexual Revolution Drug Culture The Anti-War Movement University of California at Berkeley, 1964 Copyright © 2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman


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