World Class Education
History 3000 Elizabeth Hyde
Map 22.1: The Impact of World War II on Europe (p. 954)
Economic impact Demographic Impact Creation of United Nations Coming to terms with the Holocaust 1945 Nuremburg Trials 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1949 Genocide made a Crime
Mapping The West: Europe at War’s End, 1945 (p. 948)
Economic impact Demographic Impact Creation of United Nations Coming to terms with the Holocaust 1945 Nuremburg Trials 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1949 Genocide made a Crime
Impossible to maintain after WWII French decolonization Indochina North Africa Great Britain India Creation of Pakistan
New alliances NATO Soviet Union Stalinist repression Creation of the Warsaw Pact
Map 22.3: European NATO Members and the Warsaw Pact in the 1950s (p. 960)
1952 and 1953: Hydrogen bombs (US and USSR) 1955: US B-52 bombers 1950s: ICBMS US in Turkey USSR in Cuba Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev De-Stalinization Strengthening of Warsaw Pact
Mapping The West: The Cold War World, c (p. 988)
Brezhnev Andropov Chernenko Mikhail Gorbachev Perestroika Glasnost Afghanistan War
1989 Gorbachev visited Beijing, sparking protests in China Declines to intervene in Soviet Bloc countries when they demand freedoms Poland Hungary Germany Czechoslovakia Romania
Economic distress 1990 announces leap into free markets Attempted right-wing coup averted by Boris Yeltsin Gorbachev’s power broken USSR legally dissolved 1 January 1992
History of pan-European idea Search for economic partnerships Jean Monnet and Paul-Henri Spaak 1947 Benelux countries form customs union 1951 European Coal and Steel Community 1957 Treaty of Rome 1959 Creation of EFTA
1963 British membership to EEC blocked by France 1973 Britain, Ireland, Denmark join EEC 1981 Greece becomes member 1986 Spain and Portugal join 2004 former Soviet Bloc states join
Executive Branch European Parliament European Court of Justice European Council