At Yalta, GB, USSR, and the US decide how to structure the post-war world

Creation of the United Nations (UN)

Formed to protect member nations against aggression and prevent war

Difference from League of Nations - Permanent members of the Security Council could VETO proposals

Members with veto power - US, USSR, China, France, GB

Post - WWII, the United States and the Soviet Union are no longer allies

Differences in ideology lead to diplomatic hostility

Economics—

Capitalism vs. Communism

Government—

Democracy vs. Totalitarianism

Values—

Freedom vs. Equality

Individualism vs. Collectivism

United States Soviet Union

encourage democracy in other countries to help prevent the rise of

Communist governments

encourage communism in other countries as part of a worldwide

workers’ revolution

gain access to raw materials and markets to fuel booming industries

rebuild its war-ravaged economy using Eastern Europe’s industrial

equipment and raw materials

rebuild European governments to promote stability and create new

markets for American goods

control Eastern Europe to protect Soviet borders and balance the U.S.

influence in Western Europe

reunite Germany to stabilize it and increase the security of Europe

keep Germany divided to prevent its waging war again

U.S. adopts policy of containment, pledges to support nations that resist communism

Truman Doctrine: Use $$$ to prevent spread of Communism

economic aid to Western Europe

allows Europe to rebuild helps create markets for U.S.

goods

STOP! How do these posters reflect the mood of postwar Europe and the United States?

STOP! WHAT DO THESE CARTOONS MEAN?

Austria Belarus Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Ireland Italy Latvia

Germany Lichtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Russia

Slovakia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Ukraine

US and GB try to reunify Germany, combine zones into one territory

USSR holds West Berlin hostage

US airlifted supplies into city, allowing its residents to survive

The US and the USSR organize military alliances

NATO (US and friends) vs. Warsaw Pact (USSR and friends)

Nuclear weapons Spying Space race

Soviets wanted to shield themselves from future attack (do you blame them?)

Communist neighbors (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria) would help

”Iron Curtain” - the line of Soviet Control in E. Euro

Use E. Euro to rebuild economies

A “thank you” for liberating you?

1961 – construction of the Berlin Wall

USSR crushes opposition in Hungary and Czechoslovakia

Keep power at all costs!

U.S. CIA overthrows leaders in Guatemala, Chile, Iran, others

Keep them non-Communist at all costs!

Hungarians Topple a Stalin Statue

1959- Communist Fidel Castro overthrew U.S.-supported Fulgencio Batista

1961- Bay of Pigs invasion (backed by U.S.) fails

1962- Cuban Missile Crisis

Castro

Batista

Mikhail Gorbachev: Premier of USSR 1983-91

Worked with President Reagan to open up USSR to “glasnost” (freedom of speech) and “perestroika” (capitalism)

Eventually lost support of Communist Party and resigned after Communist Party’s coup-d’etat in 1991

Nations try to be economically powerful again.

Form European Union (EU)

Join nations together to become strong global economic power as a group

Euro

Now you need to create a one-page study guide reviewing the major terms so far. Show links and connections

Yalta Conference (end of WW2)

Agreed to

Agreed to

Division of Germany and Berlin (US on west and USSR on east)

Creation of the UN w/ Security Council - US, USSR, China, GB, and France have veto

Origin of the Cold War – disagreements here spill over

Yalta Conference United Nations Division of Germany Ideologies Containment Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift NATO / Warsaw Pact Iron Curtain Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Fall of the USSR European Union