1. Warm Up – May 1 Answer the following questions on a post it:
1. What is the law of demand?
2. What is the law of supply?
3. Five Factors that effect a consumer’s willingness to buy a product
4. Four Factors that effect a company’s willingness to supply a product
5. How does a surplus and shortage effect the price of a product?

2. Warm Up – May 1
Grab the handouts and answer the following questions on a post it:
Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
Describe the turning points in both the European and Pacific Theater – why are these battles considered turning points?
What strategy did the United States use when fighting Japan in the Pacific?
What political/economic ideologies were now in opposition to each other following WWII?
How was the USSR/USA alliance already a strained alliance?

3. Atomic Bomb Debate Activity
1 – you are arguing FOR dropping the atomic bombs on Japan
2 – you are arguing AGAINST dropping the atomic bombs on Japan

4. Atomic Bomb Debate Activity
On your presentation – create a new slide titled “The Opposing Argument”
While your partner is going thru their reasons for their side of the debate, type the reasons on this slide
1’s will begin by going thru and explaining their reasons first, then 2’s

5. Atomic Bomb Debate Activity
On your presentation – create a new slide titled “What I think” – tell me which side you support – give me three reasons to support your argument and two reasons why you think arguments made by the opposing side are weak or incorrect

6. Yalta and Potsdam Conferences Reading
While you read – take notes focusing on the purpose of each conference and the decisions made at each conference

7. Period 6: 1900- Present (Accelerating Global change and Re-alignment)
Origins of the Cold War

8. Former Allies Clash US USSR
Capitalism – private citizens controlled almost all economic activity
POTUS and Congress elected by the people from opposing parties
Furious Stalin supported Hitler for a period of time
USSR
Communist dictatorship – state controlled all property and economic activity
Stalin established a totalitarian government with no opposing parties
Stalin resented the western Allies for waiting so long to attack Germany directly
Frustrated that the US kept the atomic bomb development secret

9. The United Nations
April 25, 1945 – 50 nations met in San Francisco, CA to establish new peace keeping body  June 26, 1945 – United Nations charter signed
Intended to keep peace, but US and USSR used it as a forum to spread influence over others
UN has four goals:
To keep peace throughout the world;
To develop friendly relations among nations;
To help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, to conquer hunger, disease and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each other’s rights and freedoms;
To be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals.

10. The Potsdam Conference
July 1945 – Big Three (US, USSR, Britain) met at final wartime conference in Potsdam, Germany
4 things had changed since Yalta Conference in Feb 1945
USSR occupied eastern Europe
New British Prime Minister - Attlee
New POTUS – Truman
US tested atomic bomb
USSR prevented free elections in Poland (violation of Yalta Conference compromises)  Truman angered
Spread of democracy/self-determination in eastern Europe halted
Hard to sell US goods to eastern European countries

11. Stalin and Eastern Europe
USSR felt justified in dominating eastern Europe
Huge war deaths (20M), many civilians
Physical destruction caused by warfare
Wanted to stop future invasions
Stalin set up communist gov’ts in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Poland  satellite nations (countries dominated by USSR)
1946 – Stalin gives speech
Communism and capitalism incompatible
Another war inevitable

12. Goals: US vs. USSR US USSR Self-determination for all nations
Gain access to raw materials and markets for industries (unrestricted trade)
Rebuild European countries and economies  stability and new markets
Reunite Germany and ensure productivity
USSR
Encourage communism
Rebuild economy using satellite nations’ raw materials
Control eastern Europe to balance US influence in western Europe
Keep Germany divided to prevent future threats

13. Containment and the Iron Curtain
Time to stop “babying the Soviets” – Truman
Feb 1946 – policy of containment – taking measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries
West Europe vs. East Europe =
“iron curtain”

14. Cold War
Cold War – conflict between the US and USSR between in which neither nation directly confronted the other on a battlefield

15. Truman Doctrine
US and Britain need to prevent communism in Greece and Turkey, but Britain broke  US takes charge
March 1947, Truman and Congress allocated $400M in economic and military aid to Turkey and Greece
“It must be the policy of the US to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside aggressors.”  Truman Doctrine - policy of providing aid to free nations threatened by internal/external opponents

16. Marshall Plan
European countries in postwar devastation and may look to Stalin for help…
1947, Sec. of State George Marshall  Marshall Plan
US provides aid to all European countries that need it
“not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.” – Marshall
Revived Europe, by 1952…
16 countries received $13B in aid
Western Europe flourishing, preventing spread of Communism

17. Conflict Over Germany 1948 – 4 sections combined into 2
West Germany (and West Berlin) – US, Britain, France
East Germany (and East Berlin) – USSR
Stalin closed rail access to West Berlin  no food or fuel, enough to last 5 weeks
Berlin Airlift – 327 day operation in which US and British planes flew food and supplies to West Berlin after the Soviet blockade in
277,000 flights
2.3 million tons of supplies

18. NATO Alliance vs. Warsaw Pact
1949
West Germany Federal Republic of Germany (included West Berlin)
East Germany  German Democratic Republic, USSR controlled (included East Berlin)
April 4, 1949 – North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – western democratic countries alliance formed
Belgium, Denmark, France, Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, US, and Canada (later Greece, Turkey, and West Germany)
Pledged military support to each other in the event of an attack
First time in history the US entered a military alliance during peacetime  No more US isolationism!
1955 – Warsaw Pact – military alliance between USSR and 7 eastern European nations

19. TOD – May 1
On the same post it as the warm up – make a list of other events you could write about when discussing the following events:
The Christian attempt to take back the Holy Land of Jerusalem from the Muslims
The Spread of Islam into Northern Africa
The Rise of Fascism and populations putting “Blind faith” in their leaders
You get 1 pt. for complex understanding and connecting different eras in a LEQ – how do you get the other 5 pts?