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Emerging from war the
strongest world power,
what is next for the
United States?
Duck and Cover Drills
and Bomb Shelters
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
Roosevelt – US
Churchill – Britain
Stalin – Soviet Union
Truman – US
Churchill and Attlee – UK
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.
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.”
The United Nations
Roosevelt felt, the United States alone could not
bring peace to the whole world.
• 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
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
“An iron curtain has descended across
the continent.” - Churchill
Isolation
• Physical
• Political
• Economical
• Military
In Small Groups
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Berlin Airlift
• NATO
Create a poster describing and
encouraging Americans to support
this foreign policy.
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
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
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
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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
Samantha Smith
Capitalism vs. Communism
• How many communist countries are there
today?
China
• What are they?
Cuba
Laos
North Korea
Vietnam
Post WWII Events Between the United
States and the Soviet Union
US Policy
Tried to use
economic aid
to promote
democracy
Soviet
Policy
Major Events
• Marshall Plan
• Truman
Doctrine
• Berlin Airlift
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
Created
Satellite
States