End Four Minutes First Four Chart Activity #4 Label & date your paper. Pp. 94-95 in Blue Book Identify a transitional phrase & explain what it is doing. Keep this with all of your other First Four work. To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling. When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds. End
Today’s Agenda Intro Unit 2.1 – Roots of Cold War Major Themes & Unit Question Finish Projects from Last Class Brief presentations Breakdown of the Wartime Alliances PowerPoint & Notes
End Four Minutes First Four Chart Activity #5 Label & date your paper. Summarize a source P. 98 – Either B or D What is the main message and/or major points? Keep this with all of your other First Four work. To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling. When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds. End
How does fear affect our behavior? Unit Question How does fear affect our behavior? Major Themes
Group Projects Pp. 94-95 Visual – comic book, mind map, chart/graph, kids book, etc. What was the Cold War? How have different historians explained its causes? How were American & Soviet ideas so different? How did the demise of Germany contribute to it?
Guiding Question How did the USA-USSR alliance begin to break down in 1945? The break-up of WW II allies…
During the War, Britain and the USA were allies of the Soviet Union. What happened? Germany? Ideology?
In 1945, the Big Three held two conferences – at Yalta and Potsdam – to try to sort out how they would organize the world after the war. It was at these conferences that the tensions between the two sides became obvious.
Goals of the Big Three FDR Spread democracy in Europe Trusted Stalin US & USSR on good terms
Goals of the Big Three Churchill Did not trust Stalin Concerned about a free Europe – stop spread of communism Britain had gone to war in 1939 to protect Poland – didn’t want to abandon them to USSR
Goals of the Big Three Stalin Obsessed with security for USSR Protection from any future invasion Wanted control of Poland
Yalta Divide Germany into four ‘zones of occupation. Bring Nazi war-criminals to trial. USSR got huge part of Eastern Poland Free elections as soon as possible in Poland. Help people of Europe set up democratic and self-governing countries Creation of United Nations USSR to help US fight Japan in exchange for islands north of Japan
Assignment 2 What characters and/or symbols to you see? What is the message? This cartoon by the American cartoonist Paul Plaschke appeared in the Chicago Tribune in early 1945.