VA and US History Mopping up After World War II Lecture Notes: Unit 7 Lesson 6 Standard VUS.12c
To Do: Vocabulary Mapping Exercise Interpretation Notes Rights Movie Our list of Rights Questions of the Day Multiple Choice Question Analysis
Vocabulary Occupy Decolonize Partitioned Superpower
TSWBAT Reproduce a map of Post-WWII Europe Describe the end results of WWII in Europe Explain how WWII led to the Cold War
Drawing your Solution Last week we learned that one of the major causes of WWII was how the Treaty of Versailles redrew the map of Europe after WWI. Use the blank map on the next page to draw a version of Europe that might help avoid WWIII. 8 minutes to draw boundaries and label countries 2 minutes to compare with a neighbor
Interpretation As you watch the clock tick…think…should we be spending this money?
On Your Page War Crimes Trials
Nuremberg Trials
On Your Paper Loss of empires by European powers
The Europeans Realize: Occupying places is expensive They can actually make more money paying a little for the raw materials and not having to pay to run the place And well…the natives were growing restless.
On Your Paper Establishment of two major powers in the world: The United States and the U.S.S.R.
Cold War Superpowers
At Yalta and Potsdam they divide territories
On Your Page Division of Europe, Iron Curtain
USSR gets Eastern Europe USA gets Japan
Use a different color to draw their version of Europe
30 seconds … Look Don’t Talk
On Your Paper Establishment of the United Nations
The United Nations The United Nations was formed near the end of World War II to create a body for the nations of the world to try to prevent future global wars.
Member Nations The Vatican opted out Kosovo, Taiwan, Western Sahara, and Palestine are in question…but everyone else is in
On Your Page The Marshall Plan
30 Seconds … Look Don’t Talk
On Your Page Efforts for reconstruction of Germany
Who gets what?
Marshall Plan delivers cash to West Germany Stalin expects East Germans to rebuild themselves.
30 seconds … look don’t talk
East Germany took a little longer… Why?
On Your Page Efforts for reconstruction of Japan
Why help rebuild Japan?
On Your Page The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Watch Movie human-rights human-rights Youtube version UIQ UIQ
Questions: What were the outcomes of World War II? What were the war crimes trials? How did the Allies promote reconstruction of the defeated powers? What were the international cooperative organizations created after World War II?
Multiple Choice Question Analysis