2. Agenda WWII By the Numbers Overview of new packet Essential Question Ending World War II, Starting a New Conflict

3. Essential Questions What impact does the U.S. have on the global community? What impact does the global community have on the U.S.? How does the Cold War impact today’s society?

4. Recap: Ending a 2 Front War

5. Who negotiates the peace terms in a war? The winners in WWII were…

7. Negotiating the War’s End… How might this have made these “allies” feel about each other? Yalta Conference Leaders met to discuss Europe’s future. Supported creation of international peacekeeping organization Agreed on free elections for countries liberated from German control Stalin promised to allow free elections in Soviet occupied countries Did not do so Potsdam Conference Allied leaders divided conquered Germany into four zones. Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union would each control one zone. Berlin also divided into four zones

8. What might these leaders have been afraid of? Had we seen problems created by the end of a war before?

9. Conditions ending World War II

10. Were these conditions ending the war fair? How did this ending compare to that of World War I?