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United nations- international peacekeeping agency

Marshall Plan- massive transfer of aid money to help rebuild postwar Western Europe; was intended to bolster capitalist and democratic governments and prevent domestic communist groups from riding poverty and misery to power; the plan was first announced by Secretary of State George Marshall at Harvard's commencement in June 1947

Containment Policy- Policy introduced by Harry S. Truman after WWII that said the duty of the U.S. was to stop the spread of Totalitarianism (implying Communism); Defined the foreign policy for the period after WWII until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

Cold War- Churchill said it was a "iron curtain" between eastern and western Europe, A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted eachother on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years, US against Communism (containment)

Berlin Airlift-Joint effort by the US and Britian to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city re-supply operation to the city of Berlin that lasted 11 months during 1948-49 when the Soviet Union attempted to close off the city

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What were the outcomes of WWII? (WHII. 12c)
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

What were the war crimes trials? (WHII.12c)
Trials held again members apart of genocide
How did the Allies promote reconstruction of the defeated powers? (WHII.12c)
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
What were the international cooperative organizations created after WWII? (WHII.12c)
International Cooperative Organizations
United Nations
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Warsaw Pact
What events led to the Cold War? (WHI.13a)
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

What were the causes and consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union? (WHII.13a)
Collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Soviet economic collapse
Nationalism in Warsaw Pact countries
Tearing down of Berlin Wall
Breakup of the Soviet Union
Expansion of NATO
What was the policy of containment? (WHII.13c)
Preventing the expansion of communism