1. The Cold War: Part 1 Week 2-5
Global 4
Ms. Lyons

2. World War II just ended…

3. Europe is Divided by an “Iron Curtain”
WEST SIDE
EAST SIDE
US & Great Britain
Democracy
USSR (Soviet Union)
Stalin
Communism

4. West Germany The Nazi party is outlawed Nuremberg trials
punish war criminals
Wrote a new constitution
Became a republic
Granted asylum
protection from political persecution

5. Lessons Learned from the Holocaust
West Germany formed a good relationship with Israel (Jewish country)
Gave money to some victims
As an apology

6. Japan No more military US wrote a new constitution for them
Constitutional monarchy
Emperor still rules, but with less power
Parliament
Women vote
People have freedoms
speech…

7. Superpowers
United States
Soviet Union (USSR)

8. Cold War No battles, just tension US feared spread of communism
Communism (east) vs. democracy (west)
US feared spread of communism
USSR had satellite countries
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary…

10. Policies Truman Doctrine (1947) Marshall Plan (1947) Containment
US will resist the expansion of communism
Marshall Plan (1947)
Give money to democratic
governments, so they won’t
want to become communist