Transcript World War II to the Cold War

World War II to the Cold War
Class History Project Review
Holocaust
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Allies
Anti-Semitism
Blitzkrieg
Concentration Camps
Genocide
Great Depression
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Holocaust
Kristallnacht
The Nazi (National
Socialist German Worker’s)
Party
Scapegoat
Treaty of Versailles
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Children at War
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Children in Europe were often sent away from
home for their safety (America, Canada, or even
just outside of the large cities in England)
Jewish children were also victims of the Holocaust
A relief effort, Kindertransport, was organized by
British Quakers and others, to rescue Jewish
children.
British children ‘evacuees’
Leaders of World War II
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Who was the dictator of Germany?
Who was the President of the United States?
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union?
Leaders of World War II
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Winston Churchill “Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few”.
Adolf Hitler “How fortunate for governments that the
people they administer do not think”.
Franklin Roosevelt: “The only limit to our realization of
tomorrow will be by our doubts of today”.
Joseph Stalin: “The people who cast the votes decide
nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything”.
The Iron Curtain
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain
has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals
of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin,
Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these
famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call
the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to
Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing
measure of control from Moscow. Athens alone-Greece with its
immortal glories-is free to decide its future at an election under British,
American and French observation. The Russian-dominated Polish
Government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful
inroads upon Germany, and mass expulsions of millions of Germans on
a scale grievous and undreamed-of are now taking place. The
Communist parties, which were very small in all these Eastern States of
Europe, have been raised to pre-eminence and power far beyond their
numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control.
Police governments are prevailing in nearly every case, and so far,
except in Czechoslovakia, there is no true democracy.
Communism vs. Capitalism
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“From each
according
to his abilities, to each
according to his
needs”.
Karl Marx, co-author of
The Communist Manifesto
(1848)
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“Every man, as long as he
does not violate the laws of
justice, is left perfectly free to
pursue his own interest in his
own way, and to bring his
industry and capital into
competition with those of
any other men…”
Adam Smith, author of The
Wealth of Nations (1776)
Communism vs. Capitalism—economic
systems
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Communism
Industry/agriculture
owned by the state
The government controls
all aspects of people’s lives
Common work for the
good of the state
Command economy—
government sets
price/goods
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Capitalism
People work for individual
pay
Some rich/some poor—
movement between classes
People are free to
choose/compete. Harder
work—more money
Limits on government
influence on people’s lives
The Cold War
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Starts in 1945 after the end of World War II
Difference about the ideals of communism &
democracy; communism & capitalism
Stalin (USSR dictator) places all of the Eastern
Europe under the control of Soviet Union
Tensions build up. Countries form alliances. The
war is “cold”.
The Cold War…continued
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization: United
States & Western Europe
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Warsaw Pact
Soviet Union (USSR) and
countries of Eastern
Europe
Building the Berlin Wall - 1961
Berlin Wall….
Collapse of the Soviet Union
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In 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down.
East and West Germany were re-united.
Eastern European countries became independent
of Soviet influence.
Many new countries were created from former
Soviet republics
The Soviet Union dissolved and the country
became Russia again.