DO NOW Name on top right, last name 1 st Only use ¼ of paper given Reflection: How did you do on Practice Exam? # correct? What topics or types of questions did you stumble on? What is your Regents study plan *** if not here for practice exam: free write about how being absent is impacting your education

WWII ENDS Yalta Conference Feb 1945 Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States Strategy Meeting Originally to bring free elections to Eastern Europe (Stalin lied)

Superpower United States and the S.U. come out of WWII as confident and strong Powerful country that plays a dominant economic, political, and military role in world

GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade A 1948 treaty designed to expand world trade by reducing tariffs Did GATT work? Evaluate graph to determine

United Nations US led charge to form UN Revisiting Wilson’s original peace plan of the League of Nations (shut down by congress) 1945 organization developed to promote peace

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Document issued by the UN to promote basic human rights “WHEREAS recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.”

Geneva Convention International agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war

Nuremburg Trials Nazi leaders charged with war crimes trials of 22 Nazi leaders - eleven were given the death penalty, three were acquitted, three were given life imprisonment and four were given imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years.

Objective: To examine the causes of the Cold War. Warsaw Berlin Prague Vienna Budapest Belgrade Bucharest Sofia Do Now: Use a world map to match the country with the capital city found below., Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria

The Cold War: Roots of the Conflict Soviet Expansion: · The Soviet Union occupied most of Eastern Europe by the end of World War II.

Boarder between the S.U. and Western Europe In 1946, Winston Churchill correctly warned that the Soviets were creating an “iron curtain” in Eastern Europe. “iron curtain” Winston Churchill giving the “Iron Curtain” address at Westminster College on March 5, 1946 IRON Curtain

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow...Whatever conclusions may be drawn from these facts - and facts they are Winston Churchill - “The Sinews of Peace” March 5, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri

- this is certainly not the Liberated Europe we fought to build up. Nor is it one which contains the essentials of permanent peace. What is needed is a settlement, and the longer this is delayed, the more difficult it will be and the greater our dangers will become. From what I have seen of our Russian friends and Allies during the war, I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness.

Peep under the Iron curtain March 6, 1946

· By 1948, every Eastern European country was under communist control.

American Response: · Truman Doctrine – statement of President Truman that promised military and economic support to nations threatened by communism. (audio) (audio) In 1947, the U.S. gave $400 million to Greece and Turkey in order to help them put down communist revolts.

· Secretary of State George Marshall toured Western Europe and witnessed widespread homelessness and famine. Aid for Europe: Children in a London suburb, waiting outside the wreckage of what was their home. September 1940.

"The German ultimatum ordering the Dutch commander of Rotterdam to cease fire was delivered to him at 10:30 a.m. on May 14, At 1:22 p.m., German bombers set the whole inner city of Rotterdam ablaze, killing of its inhabitants.” * Aerial view of the ruins of Rotterdam.The German ultimatum ordering the Dutch commander of Rotterdam to cease fire

Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942

Nuremberg, Germany, April 20, 1945 Marshall Plan Marshall, fearing that communist revolts could occur in such an atmosphere, proposed that the U.S. help to rebuild the European economy in what became known as the Marshall Plan.

* The U.S. gave over $12 billion in aid to European countries between 1948 and 1952, helping to improve their economies and lessen the chance of communist revolutions.

political cartoon by Daniel Fitzpatrick from July 20, 1947Daniel Fitzpatrick The Marshall plan was named after George C. Marshall, Truman's secretary of state. At the end of World War II, the European nations were devastated. Their economies were in shambles; they could not even supply enough food to feed their own people. The Marshall Plan was an attempt to ensure that the economies of Europe would rise again from the ashes of the war. The $16 billion aid package helped Western Europe begin the process of rebuilding. Truman wanted to make sure that these nations would not be forced to turn to war or communism to provide for their starving people. It is considered one of the most successful aid projects in U.S. history.

“The Bigger Question,” by Daniel Fitzpatrick November 28, 1947Daniel Fitzpatrick Before World War II, the United States enjoyed an isolationist approach to the problems and policies of other countries. U.S. isolationism meant that the government did not alter or try to influence the actions of other governments. After World War II ended, many Americans wanted a return to that policy. Other Americans, however, felt that without U.S. intervention, the Soviet Union would try to take over Europe.

Division of Berlin After World War II, Germany was divided into four zones, occupied by French, British, American, and Soviet troops. Occupation zones after Berlin is the multinational area within the Soviet zone.

· In June of 1948, the French, British and American zones were joined into the nation of West Germany after the Soviets refused to end their occupation of Germany. Soviet blockade: West Germany East Germany West Berlin East Berlin

· In response, the Soviets cut off West Berlin from the rest of the world with a blockade. (video – 1:35)(video – 1:35) Eventual site of the Berlin Wall Video: The Berlin Wall: Deconstructed Video: The Berlin Wall: Deconstructed (2:27)

· President Truman decided to avoid the blockade by flying in food and other supplies to the needy people of West Berlin. Berlin Airlift : · At times, over 5,000 tons of supplies arrived daily.

THE "CANDY BOMBER" OF THE BERLIN AIRLIFT, 60 YEARS LATERTHE "CANDY BOMBER" OF THE BERLIN AIRLIFT, 60 YEARS LATER (3:54)

· The Soviet zone of Germany, including East Berlin, became known as the nation of East Germany. Germany remains divided: · In May of 1949, Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union ended the blockade. October, 1949

NATO an organization formed i n 1949 for the purpose of collective defense: ori ginally comprising Belgi um, Canada,Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, L uxembourg, the Netherl ands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, an d the UnitedStates, and later joined by Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic, H ungary, and Poland

The USA is indeed the main contributor, around 22%. Then comes Germany (14.5%), France (11%) and UK (10.5%).