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World Class Education www.kean.edu
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History 3000 Elizabeth Hyde
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Map 22.1: The Impact of World War II on Europe (p. 954)
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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
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Mapping The West: Europe at War’s End, 1945 (p. 948)
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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
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Impossible to maintain after WWII French decolonization Indochina North Africa Great Britain India Creation of Pakistan
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New alliances NATO Soviet Union Stalinist repression Creation of the Warsaw Pact
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Map 22.3: European NATO Members and the Warsaw Pact in the 1950s (p. 960)
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1952 and 1953: Hydrogen bombs (US and USSR) 1955: US B-52 bombers 1950s: ICBMS US in Turkey USSR in Cuba Cuban Missile Crisis
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Khrushchev De-Stalinization Strengthening of Warsaw Pact
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Mapping The West: The Cold War World, c. 1960 (p. 988)
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Brezhnev Andropov Chernenko Mikhail Gorbachev Perestroika Glasnost Afghanistan War
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1989 Gorbachev visited Beijing, sparking protests in China Declines to intervene in Soviet Bloc countries when they demand freedoms Poland Hungary Germany Czechoslovakia Romania
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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
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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
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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
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Executive Branch European Parliament European Court of Justice European Council
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