1. This picture was taken in February of 1945
This picture was taken in February of Germany surrendered in May of 1945 and Japan in August of 1945.
What do you see in the picture? Describe the scene.
Who do you think the men that are seated are?

2. The Allies Met at the yalta conference in February1945
The Big Three meet to discuss postwar world
Poland, Bulgaria and Romania would hold free elections.
What does this mean??
Stalin promises to declare war on Japan

3. potsdam conference in july 1945
The Big Three meet again in July 1945
Truman, Stalin and Atlee (replaced Churchill)
Decide what to do with Germany
Divide it into 4 zones
Each zone to be occupied by an Allied Nation
What are the 4 divisions?
Poland gets free elections
Soviets can collect war reparations
Soviets again promise to declare war on Japan
Truman learns the atomic bomb test successfully while at the meeting

4. a new world The world map changes Imperialism goes into decline
Many countries borders change
more in depth next week
Imperialism goes into decline
war marked the end of Western European domination of the world
Britain, France, and Spain
Balance of Power shifts
Two new world superpowers
the US and the Soviet Union
US had the atomic bomb
Red Army was largest in the world

5. International cooperation
New world economy
General Agreement on Tariifs and Trade (GATT)
1948
reduced tariffs to increase world trade
The United Nations is formed
organization of countries designed to prevent a future war
Senate ratifies the charter
5 major world allies sat on the board, the Security Council
The UN will
move world away from colonialism
help create the Jewish state of Israel
mediate regional conflicts
provide food and aid to much of the world when needed
issue the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948

6. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Draft was headed up by Eleanor Roosevelt
“Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable right of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world....All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
List vocabulary you find difficult
Use context clues to try and get their meaning

7. war criminals Geneva Convention Nuremberg Trials
international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war
Nuremberg Trials
Allies prosecuted Nazies for war crimes

8. New American Identity
During the war, Americans condemned the Nazi’s way of life: totalitarian, racsict and warlike.
We maintained the war was fought for “the people”. Tolerance, freedom, democracy and peace.
Post World War II: many Americans did NOT want to return to isolationism. Why do you think this was so?

9. Civil Rights Grows African Americans in the war were fighting 2 wars
dictatorship overseas
racism in the United States
“You tell me that Hitler
Is a mighty bad man.
I guess he took lessons
From the Ku Klux Klan.”
-Langston Hughes

10. Civil Rights WWII renewed vigor to the fight for civil rights
white Americans joined the movement
America must be a beacon
freedom, democracy and justice

11. the USA prospers World War II: Ended the Great Depression
List the reasons how it did this
Spurred economic growth afterwards
Defense industries and military bases in the south and west
people moved to the south and west
Driving force for prosperity and jobs was the United States government