Aftermath of World War II
... At the Nuremberg trials, a number of Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes and sentenced to death. Similar trials were held in Japan. ...
... At the Nuremberg trials, a number of Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes and sentenced to death. Similar trials were held in Japan. ...
17.5 the end of world war ii
... At the Nuremberg trials, a number of Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes and sentenced to death. Similar trials were held in Japan. ...
... At the Nuremberg trials, a number of Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes and sentenced to death. Similar trials were held in Japan. ...
The End of World War II
... countries to become communist Truman unhappy with these new proSoviet governments; Demanded Stalin allow free elections as he agreed to at Yalta Stalin refused to allow freely elected governments in Eastern Europe; feared they would be anti-Soviet ...
... countries to become communist Truman unhappy with these new proSoviet governments; Demanded Stalin allow free elections as he agreed to at Yalta Stalin refused to allow freely elected governments in Eastern Europe; feared they would be anti-Soviet ...
AHON Chapter 25 Section 1 Lecture Notes
... the early stages of the Cold War? After World War II, the Allies’ wartime alliance was replaced by the Cold War, a struggle between Communist and non-Communist nations. ...
... the early stages of the Cold War? After World War II, the Allies’ wartime alliance was replaced by the Cold War, a struggle between Communist and non-Communist nations. ...
Ghere Handouts 1 through 10 - Organization of American Historians
... 6. They signed an agreement with Germany before World War II to divide Poland in half between the two countries. Josef Stalin later justified the decision as necessary to provide more time for his country to prepare for the invasion of Germany. ...
... 6. They signed an agreement with Germany before World War II to divide Poland in half between the two countries. Josef Stalin later justified the decision as necessary to provide more time for his country to prepare for the invasion of Germany. ...
Kennan and Containment
... United States, Kennan’s article implied, should face down the Soviet Union and its Communist allies whenever and wherever they posed a risk of gaining influence. In fact, Kennan advocated defending above all else the world’s major centers of industrial power against Soviet expansion: Western Europe, ...
... United States, Kennan’s article implied, should face down the Soviet Union and its Communist allies whenever and wherever they posed a risk of gaining influence. In fact, Kennan advocated defending above all else the world’s major centers of industrial power against Soviet expansion: Western Europe, ...
The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis of
... others favored stern warnings to Cuba and the Soviet Union. The President decided upon a middle course. On October 22, he ordered a naval “quarantine” of Cuba. The use of “quarantine” legally distinguished this action from a blockade, which assumed a state of war existed; the use of “quarantine” ins ...
... others favored stern warnings to Cuba and the Soviet Union. The President decided upon a middle course. On October 22, he ordered a naval “quarantine” of Cuba. The use of “quarantine” legally distinguished this action from a blockade, which assumed a state of war existed; the use of “quarantine” ins ...
Practice Test
... 4. Early in the Korean War, UN forces were contained by North Korean forces around the city of __________________________. (Pusan/Inchon) Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ...
... 4. Early in the Korean War, UN forces were contained by North Korean forces around the city of __________________________. (Pusan/Inchon) Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ...
Key Question 4: Who was to blame for the Cold War
... The Red Army drives German forces west and occupies Eastern Europe. By May 1945 Soviet troops controlled all states but Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece. Communist Parties in these countries welcome the Red Army and receive its support. Pro-German groups were executed or debarred from power. Despite ...
... The Red Army drives German forces west and occupies Eastern Europe. By May 1945 Soviet troops controlled all states but Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece. Communist Parties in these countries welcome the Red Army and receive its support. Pro-German groups were executed or debarred from power. Despite ...
NATO, the Warsaw Pact - IB 20th c. World History Y2
... allies against one another. The disparate geopolitical circumstances that the two countries faced were bound to have some effect on the types of alliances they sought. In the United States, many officials and legislators initially were reluctant to maintain a permanent military presence in Europe. T ...
... allies against one another. The disparate geopolitical circumstances that the two countries faced were bound to have some effect on the types of alliances they sought. In the United States, many officials and legislators initially were reluctant to maintain a permanent military presence in Europe. T ...
1. Unit 6 Lesson 1 Notes 1
... So let's look at the division of Germany. The green area in the upper left was occupied by Great Britain. France occupied the blue area on the bottom left with the US in orange on the lower right. Finally the Soviet Union controlled the large red territory on the right. Remember in 1948 Great Britai ...
... So let's look at the division of Germany. The green area in the upper left was occupied by Great Britain. France occupied the blue area on the bottom left with the US in orange on the lower right. Finally the Soviet Union controlled the large red territory on the right. Remember in 1948 Great Britai ...
Chapter 17 - cloudfront.net
... Key Concept 8.1: The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and working to maintain a position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences. I. ...
... Key Concept 8.1: The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and working to maintain a position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences. I. ...
United States History II Mid-Term Exam Review Explain the Nazi
... 33. What did the U.S. Congress authorize construction of for travel purposes in 1956? The interstate highway system 34. The United States ‘ response to the growing crisis in Europe changed throughout the 1930’s and up to the U.S. entry into the war in 1941. What were these responses, which ...
... 33. What did the U.S. Congress authorize construction of for travel purposes in 1956? The interstate highway system 34. The United States ‘ response to the growing crisis in Europe changed throughout the 1930’s and up to the U.S. entry into the war in 1941. What were these responses, which ...
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY
... Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s. Revolution in Cuba; the Missile Crisis. Argentina During WW II Argentina tried to remain neutral, although with more sympathy towards the Axis countries (military government). In effect USA imposed economic sanctions which lasted till 1949. “With the advent of t ...
... Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s. Revolution in Cuba; the Missile Crisis. Argentina During WW II Argentina tried to remain neutral, although with more sympathy towards the Axis countries (military government). In effect USA imposed economic sanctions which lasted till 1949. “With the advent of t ...
Chapter 17 Student Study Guide
... U.S. government, such as the departments of State and Defense, that are largely responsive to presidential leadership. National security policy has also relied on international organizations, such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, that are responsive to the global concerns of m ...
... U.S. government, such as the departments of State and Defense, that are largely responsive to presidential leadership. National security policy has also relied on international organizations, such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, that are responsive to the global concerns of m ...
Final Review World History - Liberty Union High School District
... 17. Why did the creation of Israel cause conflict? 18. What is significant about the Camp David Accords 19. What is the state of Israeli-Arab relations today? 20. What has caused most of the terrorist activity in Africa 21. How did September 11 attacks affect the way Americans looked at life? 22. Ho ...
... 17. Why did the creation of Israel cause conflict? 18. What is significant about the Camp David Accords 19. What is the state of Israeli-Arab relations today? 20. What has caused most of the terrorist activity in Africa 21. How did September 11 attacks affect the way Americans looked at life? 22. Ho ...
3. kennedy-johnson
... The Cuban Missile Crisis did not end when Soviet ships reversed their course, however. The end of the crisis came several days later, when Kennedy responded to letters sent from Khrushchev, agreeing to some terms publicly and others in secret. In the end, the Soviet Union agreed to remove its missil ...
... The Cuban Missile Crisis did not end when Soviet ships reversed their course, however. The end of the crisis came several days later, when Kennedy responded to letters sent from Khrushchev, agreeing to some terms publicly and others in secret. In the end, the Soviet Union agreed to remove its missil ...
4. World War II to 1959 review
... Soviet satellites- countries that were communist and looked to the USSR for leadership United Nations/Security Council- world-wide peace keeping organization formed at the end of World War II; it replaced the League of Nations; the Sec. Council was made up of the US, USSR, China, France, and Great B ...
... Soviet satellites- countries that were communist and looked to the USSR for leadership United Nations/Security Council- world-wide peace keeping organization formed at the end of World War II; it replaced the League of Nations; the Sec. Council was made up of the US, USSR, China, France, and Great B ...
Report to the President by the National Security Council Washington
... direct military attack against U.S. territory or the Western Hemisphere, is capable of serious submarine warfare and of a limited number of one-way bomber sorties. b. Present intelligence estimates attribute to Soviet armed forces the capability of over-running in about six months all of Continental ...
... direct military attack against U.S. territory or the Western Hemisphere, is capable of serious submarine warfare and of a limited number of one-way bomber sorties. b. Present intelligence estimates attribute to Soviet armed forces the capability of over-running in about six months all of Continental ...
cold war causes
... Truman believed that Stalin was going to encourage communist revolutions across Europe. To address this threat Truman set out a new policy which became known as the ‘Truman Doctrine’. The doctrine stated that the world had a choice between communist tyranny and democratic freedom, and that America w ...
... Truman believed that Stalin was going to encourage communist revolutions across Europe. To address this threat Truman set out a new policy which became known as the ‘Truman Doctrine’. The doctrine stated that the world had a choice between communist tyranny and democratic freedom, and that America w ...
The Yalta and Potsdam Conference
... treaty. This view is reinforced by others, who also tell of Stalin’s shock and breakdown at the timing, if not the substance, of the German ‘betrayal’” (Kennedy-Pipe 49). It wasn’t until July 3rd that Stalin finally addressed the Soviet people of the current state of affairs resulting from Hitler’s ...
... treaty. This view is reinforced by others, who also tell of Stalin’s shock and breakdown at the timing, if not the substance, of the German ‘betrayal’” (Kennedy-Pipe 49). It wasn’t until July 3rd that Stalin finally addressed the Soviet people of the current state of affairs resulting from Hitler’s ...
The History Success Kit. High School History
... another war, the British and French let Germany get away with violating the Treaty of Versailles. In 1936, Germany and Italy formed an alliance, and shortly after, Japan joined allegiance with Germany against the communist Soviet Union. Germany began reclaiming territory through military force, even ...
... another war, the British and French let Germany get away with violating the Treaty of Versailles. In 1936, Germany and Italy formed an alliance, and shortly after, Japan joined allegiance with Germany against the communist Soviet Union. Germany began reclaiming territory through military force, even ...
USA` isolationism ( beginning of the XX century)
... The main issue on the table at Yalta was the future of Poland. Both Roosevelt and Churchill were acutely aware that Stalin had already double-crossed the West before over Poland. Stalin’s 1939 pact with Hitler included a secret clause to divide Polish territory between Germany and the USSR. But at Y ...
... The main issue on the table at Yalta was the future of Poland. Both Roosevelt and Churchill were acutely aware that Stalin had already double-crossed the West before over Poland. Stalin’s 1939 pact with Hitler included a secret clause to divide Polish territory between Germany and the USSR. But at Y ...
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact).Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 1947–1991 is common. It was termed as ""cold"" because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars, known as proxy wars, in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan that the two sides supported. The Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences: the former being a single-party Marxist–Leninist state operating planned economy and controlled press while professing state atheism and owning exclusively the right to establish and govern communities, and the latter being a capitalist state with generally free elections and press, which also granted freedom of religion and freedom of association to its citizens. A self-proclaimed neutral bloc arose with the Non-Aligned Movement founded by Egypt, India, Indonesia and Yugoslavia; this faction rejected association with either the US-led West or the Soviet-led East. The two superpowers never engaged directly in full-scale armed combat but they each armed heavily in preparation for a possible all-out nuclear world war. Each side had a nuclear deterrent that deterred an attack by the other side, on the basis that such an attack would lead to total destruction of the attacker: the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD). Aside from the development of the two sides' nuclear arsenals, and deployment of conventional military forces, the struggle for dominance was expressed via proxy wars around the globe, psychological warfare, massive propaganda campaigns and espionage, rivalry at sports events, and technological competitions such as the Space Race.The first phase of the Cold War began in the first two years after the end of the Second World War in 1945. The USSR consolidated its control over the states of the Eastern Bloc while the United States began a strategy of global containment to challenge Soviet power, extending military and financial aid to the countries of Western Europe (for example, supporting the anti-Communist side in the Greek Civil War) and creating the NATO alliance. The Berlin Blockade (1948–49) was the first major crisis of the Cold War.With victory of the Communist side in the Chinese Civil War and the outbreak of the Korean War (1950–53), the conflict expanded. The USSR and USA competed for influence in Latin America and decolonizing states of Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Meanwhile, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was stopped by the Soviets. The expansion and escalation sparked more crises, such as the Suez Crisis (1956), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Following this last crisis a new phase began that saw the Sino-Soviet split complicate relations within the Communist sphere while US allies, particularly France, demonstrated greater independence of action. The USSR crushed the 1968 Prague Spring liberalization program in Czechoslovakia, and the Vietnam War (1955–1975) ended with a defeat of the US-backed Republic of South Vietnam, prompting further adjustments.By the 1970s, both sides had become interested in accommodations to create a more stable and predictable international system, inaugurating a period of détente that saw Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the US opening relations with the People's Republic of China as a strategic counterweight to the Soviet Union. Détente collapsed at the end of the decade with the Soviet war in Afghanistan beginning in 1979.The early 1980s were another period of elevated tension, with the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (1983), and the ""Able Archer"" NATO military exercises (1983). The United States increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressures on the Soviet Union, at a time when the communist state was already suffering from economic stagnation. In the mid-1980s, the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the liberalizing reforms of perestroika (""reorganization"", 1987) and glasnost (""openness"", c. 1985) and ended Soviet involvement in Afghanistan. Pressures for national independence grew stronger in Eastern Europe, especially Poland. Gorbachev meanwhile refused to use Soviet troops to bolster the faltering Warsaw Pact regimes as had occurred in the past. The result in 1989 was a wave of revolutions that peacefully (with the exception of the Romanian Revolution) overthrew all of the Communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union itself lost control and was banned following an abortive coup attempt in August 1991. This in turn led to the formal dissolution of the USSR in December 1991 and the collapse of Communist regimes in other countries such as Mongolia, Cambodia and South Yemen. The United States remained as the world's only superpower.The Cold War and its events have left a significant legacy, and it is often referred to in popular culture, especially in media featuring themes of espionage (such as the internationally successful James Bond film series) and the threat of nuclear warfare.