1. Worksheet
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2. Emerging from war the strongest world power, what is next for the United States?

3. Duck and Cover Drills and Bomb Shelters

4. Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference
Roosevelt – US Truman – US Churchill – Britain Churchill and Attlee – UK Stalin – Soviet Union Stalin - SU
Free elections for countries liberated from Germany
Support for creating a national peace keeping organization
Germany and the city of Berlin would be divided into 4 zones. Britain, France, the United States and Soviet Union would each control one zone.

6. Nuremberg Trials
An international Military Tribunal put on trial high-ranking Nazis in the German city of Nuremberg.
12 German leaders and 8 Japanese leaders were sentenced to death
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”

7. The United Nations
Roosevelt felt, the United States alone could not bring peace to the whole world.

8. The Cold War
A phrase used to describe the struggle for global power between the US and Soviet Union.
After forcing Poland to be communist, Stalin created “satellite states” (countries under complete Soviet control) and cut them off from the western world.
The Cold War spans the Yalta Conference in 1945 to the crumbling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and caused numerous repercussions in between

9. Examine the map on page 847 and note. . .
The NEW map of Europe
Compare and Contrast the map on page 807 with the map on page 847
The Iron Curtain
What is it and what countries does it border
New alliances
NATO members, Warsaw Pact members, and nonaligned nations

10. “An iron curtain has descended across the continent.” - Churchill
Isolation
Physical
Political
Economical
Military

11. In Small Groups Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Berlin Airlift NATO
Create a poster describing and encouraging Americans to support this foreign policy.

12. Truman Doctrine
Soviet Union wanted control over areas in the Mediterranean Sea
Greece was threatened by communism
US provided financial aid to Turkey and Greece for protection

13. Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program)
Provide money to Europe to help them recover from the war
Leave them financially secure so they are less vulnerable
Enhance trade with Europe
Soviet Union refused to participate and wouldn’t allow eastern Europe to either

14. Berlin Airlift
US, Britain and France joined Western Germany into one state
West Berlin’s 2 million residents were trapped in the Iron Curtain because Stalin cut all railway, water and highway traffic from Western Germany
US and Britain airlifted supplies to those people for a year until the Soviet Union lifted the blockade

15. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United States, Iceland, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Britain
Promised to defend each other if attacked
Soviet Union created the Warsaw Pact for their protection

16. Samantha Smith

17. Capitalism vs. Communism
How many communist countries are there today?
What are they?
China
Cuba
Laos
North Korea
Vietnam

18. Post WWII Events Between the United States and the Soviet Union
US Policy
Soviet Policy
Tried to use economic aid to promote democracy
Created Satellite States
Major Events
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact