Download WWII and Cold War Connection

European Exploration
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Reasons for European Exploration:
Gold- New trade routes could led them to wealth
God- They wanted to spread Christianity
Glory- Explorers could become hero's and acquire land for
their countries
During the Christian Crusades Europeans were exposed to
new goods from Asia like silk and spices.
Western Europeans wanted to find a new trade route that
would allow them to get to Asia faster and avoid going
through Italy
European Exploration
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Portugal- In the 1400’s Prince Henry the Navigator decided
to reach Asia by traveling around the tip of Africa
Spain-In the late 1400’s Spain sent Christopher Columbus
to reach Asia by going west across the Atlantic Ocean
England-in the 1600 & 1700’s England became the largest
world empire by acquiring colonies in North America,
Africa, India, and Australia
France-between 1600 and 1900 France controlled much of
Italy and Germany and many islands throughout the world
QUICK DRAW #1
World War I: A Deadly War
► World
War I was a very
deadly war that
claimed over 22 million
lives.
► What technology was
used the for the first
time during war?
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Airplanes
Tanks
Submarines
Poisonous Gas
World War I
► Germany
was known to
be very destructive and
used poisonous gas
► The new machines of
war led to a military
strategy called Trench
Warfare: armies would
dig trenches in the
ground and try to take
land very slowly
QUICK DRAW #2
► The
Russian Revolution
end of the Russian
Empire
 In 1914 World War I
began, but Nicholas II,
the Russian czar did not
want to get involved.
 Yet Russia found itself
fighting against
Germany and its
partner
 During the war, Russia
experienced food
shortages and strikes.
Russian Revolution
 In 1917 the Russian
czar was forced to give
up power,
 This overturning of the
Russian monarchy is
known as the Russian
Revolution getting
 In 1918 Nicholas II
and the royal family
were all shot to death.
This execution ended
nearly 400 years of
czarist rule.
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Russian Revolution
The leader of the
Russian Revolution
was Vladimir Lenin
Took Russia out of
World War I (1917)
He changed the name
of the country from
Russia to the Soviet
Union
He made the
government practice
communism: the
government controls
the government and
the economy
Russian Revolution
► Many
Russians wanted
communism because
Lenin promised to end
their hunger, poverty
and unemployment.
► But Lenin became a
dictator and Russian
citizens didn’t have
political power.
► A communist Soviet
Union leads to
disagreements with
the United States later
on.
QUICK DRAW #3
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles
ended WWI.
► The treaty demanded that
Germany be punished by
1. Paying for damages
done to other countries
2. Giving up part of its
territory (land)
► This treaty made
Germans very mad and
helped to create economic
(money) problems for
Germany
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QUICK DRAW #4
Worldwide Depression
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After WWI the
world’s economy
was in bad shape:
WWI killed many
civilians (workers)
of many countries
and destroyed land,
factories and
infrastructure
Worldwide Depression
2. The United States had the Great
Depression,(1929) so it bought less things
from other countries
3. Companies went out of business so more
people were unemployed.
QUICK DRAW #5
Rise of Hitler & the Nazi Party
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did the Great Depression help put Adolph Hitler
in power?
► Germany was faced with a bad economy.
► Hitler told the people he could fix Germany’s
economic problems by ridding them of the Jews.
Holocaust
► Poor
Germans believed
Hitler had the solution
to their bad economy
and promised to make
Germany strong again.
► Germans elected Adolf
Hitler who was of the
Nazi Party.
► Germany killed 6
millions Jews under
Hitler which is known
as the Holocaust.
QUICK DRAW #6
WWII
► From
1941 to 1945 the
United Kingdom, the
United States and the
Soviet Union had a
common enemy:
Germany
► F.D.R: President of the
U.S
► Winston Churchill: Prime
Minister of the U.K.
► Joseph Stalin: Dictator
of the Soviet Union
(U.S.S.R)
QUICK DRAW #7
► After
The Cold War
WWII, and
Germany was
defeated, the United
Kingdom and the
United States wanted
to rebuild Europe as
free democratic
nations with free
market economies
► Individual
citizens are
free to decide what to
make and what price
to sell it for
The Cold War
► But,
the Soviet Union
wanted to rebuild
Europe and a
communist
government and the
economy is
centralized
(controlled) by the
government
► Government decides
what to make and
what price to sell it
for
The Cold War
►Once
WWII ended and Germany was
defeated there was little reason for
Western Europe to work with Eastern
Europe.
 Western countries had constitutional
monarchies or democracies
 Eastern countries had communist,
largely Soviet controlled governments
QUICK DRAW #8