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Outcomes of World War II
• Loss of empires by European powers
• Establishment of two major powers in the world: The United States and the U.S.S.R.
• War crimes trials
• Division of Europe, Iron Curtain
• Establishment of the United Nations
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Marshall Plan
• Formation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Warsaw Pact

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Trials held to question the actions of those accused of war crimes in ww2

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3. How did the Allies promotereconstruction of thedefeated powers? 

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3. How did the Allies promotereconstruction of thedefeated powers? 

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Efforts for reconstruction of Germany
• Democratic government installed in West Germany and West Berlin
• Germany and Berlin divided among the four Allied powers
• Emergence of West Germany as economic power in postwar Europe

Efforts for reconstruction of Japan
• United States occupation of Japan under MacArthur’s administration
• Democracy and economic development
• Elimination of Japan’s military offensive capabilities; guarantee of Japan’s security by the United States
• Emergence of Japan as dominant economy in Asia

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4.	What were the international cooperative organizations created after WWII? 

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4.	What were the international cooperative organizations created after WWII? 

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International Cooperative Organizations
• United Nations
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• Warsaw Pact The Universal

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Beginning of the Cold War (1945– 1948)
• The Yalta Conference and the Soviet control of Eastern Europe
• Rivalry between the United States and the U.S.S.R.
• Democracy and the free enterprise system vs. dictatorship and communism
• President Truman and the Policy of Containment
• Eastern Europe: Soviet satellite nations, the Iron Curtain

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6. What were the causes andconsequences of the collapse of theSoviet Union? 

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6. What were the causes andconsequences of the collapse of theSoviet Union? 

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Collapse of communism in the SovietUnion and Eastern Europe
• Soviet economic collapse
• Nationalism in Warsaw Pact countries
• Tearing down of Berlin Wall
• Breakup of the Soviet Union
• Expansion of NATO

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• containment: A policy for preventing the expansion of communism

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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.

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The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite countries

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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989

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the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.