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Worksheet 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 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 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