Download Essential Question: How did the WWII Allies (France, Great Britain

Essential Question:
How did the WWII Allies (France, Great Britain, United States, and USSR) play a
central role in Europe’s reconstruction after the war? How does the division of
Germany, and the city of Berlin, reflect Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union
and the United States after WWII?
Documents:
Image: Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949
Image: Berlin Map, 1961
Image: Potsdam Conference, August 1945
Image: Berlin, Check Point Charlie
Image: Berlin Wall, November 1989
Winston Churchill “Sinews of Peace” March 5, 1946
President John F. Kennedy, Berlin Wall Speech, June 26, 1963
President Ronald Reagan, Berlin Wall Speech, June 12, 1987
Mikhail Gorbachev, Murmansk Speech, October 1,1987
George C. Marshall, June 5, 1947
Yalta Conference, February 11, 1945
GDR Council of Ministers’ Decision to Seal the Border, August 12, 1961
Nikita Khrushchev, The Soviet Government’s Explanation of its Berlin Policy, December
24, 1962
Image: Map of Germany, 1961
Florida New Generation Standards
www.floridastandards.org
American History (9-12)
Standard 6: Understand the causes and course of World War II, the character of the war
at home and abroad, and its reshaping of the United States role in the post-war world.
 SS.912.A.6. Identify the consequences of the early years of the Cold War, such as the establishment
of the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the Warsaw Pact.
 SS.912.A.6.10 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the early years of the Cold War
(Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Warsaw Pact).
World History (9-12)
Standard 8: Recognize significant events and people from the post World War II and
Cold War eras.
 SS.912.W.8.In.a Recognize that the countries of NATO aligned with the United States and countries in
the Warsaw Pact aligned with the Soviet Union after World War II.
 SS.912.W.8.In.b Identify characteristics of the early Cold War, such as the Truman Doctrine, Marshall
Plan, NATO, and the Iron Curtain.
 SS.912.W.8.In.e Recognize factors that led to the fall of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe, such as the arms race and resistance by the citizens within the countries.