Activity: Post WWII Map/Differing Ideologies Welcome to Contemporary U.S. and World History Date: 9/18/17 Activity: Post WWII Map/Differing Ideologies Warm Up: What was the status of Yugoslavia? Were they communist or free? Did the USSR dominate them? Homework: UN Notes due Tomorrow 9/19 Vocab Quiz Tomorrow 9/19 Rest of Vocab due Tuesday 9/26 Pg Assignment Date 5 Post WWII Map 9/14 6 Post WWII Map Assignment 7 UN Reading 8 UN Notes 9 Different Views of the World 9/18
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DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD: CASUALTIES USSR USA WWII – 400,000 DEAD WWII – OVER 20 MILLION DEAD
DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD: ECONOMIES USSR USA END OF WWII – BOOMING ECONOMY END OF WWII - DEVASTATED ECONOMY
DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD: PRIMARY GOALS USSR USA PRIMARY GOAL: PROTECTION FROM FUTURE ATTACKS PRIMARY GOAL: INTERNAL PEACE & PROSPERITY
DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD: POLITICAL IDEOLOGY USSR USA ENCOURAGE DEMOCRACY EVERYWHERE SPREAD COMMUNISM
DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD SOVIET DISTRUST AMERICAN FEARS U.S. INTERVENED IN 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION COMMUNIST “WORLD REVOLUTION” A THREAT TO CAPITALISM & LIBERTY
DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD SOVIET DISTRUST AMERICAN FEARS STALIN WAS TREACHEROUS - HIS INTERNAL PURGES KILLED MILLIONS U.S. REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE THE USSR UNTIL 1933
DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD SOVIET DISTRUST AMERICAN FEARS U.S. DELAYED ENTERING WWII USSR COULD NOT BE TRUSTED - SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION AGREEMENT WITH NAZI GERMANY
DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD SOVIET DISTRUST AMERICAN FEARS USSR WAS AGGRESSIVE - SOVIET INVASION OF POLAND IN 1939 U.S. PURPOSELY DELAYED INVASION OF WESTERN EUROPE
DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE WORLD SOVIET DISTRUST AMERICAN FEARS USA MOST POWERFUL NATION IN THE WORLD SOVIETS WILL EVENTUALLY DEVELOP ATOMIC WEAPONS