Post War Europe/Cold War by Nayeli Ruiz https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub en-us 2018-04-28 22:51:30 UTC 2026-04-15 13:33:41 UTC hello@padlet.com 1. What were the outcomes of WWII? (WHII. 12c) nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257066
  •  European powers’ loss of empires 
  •  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 
    • ]]>     2018-04-28 22:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257066     2. What were the war crimes trials? (WHII.12c) nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257115
  • Nuremburg Trials
  • Trials of the Nazi leaders, showed that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime
    • ]]>     2018-04-28 22:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257115     3. How did the Allies promote reconstruction of the defeated powers? (WHII.12c) nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257228 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  
    • U.S. occupation of Japan under MacArthur’s administration 
    • Democracy and economic development 
    • Elimination of Japanese offensive military capabilities; United States’ guarantee of Japan’s security 
    • Emergence of Japan as dominant economy in Asia]]>     2018-04-28 22:58:26 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257228     4. What were the international cooperative organizations created after WWII? (WHII.12c) nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257281 International Cooperative Organizations 
    • United Nations 
    • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 
    • Warsaw Pact ]]>     2018-04-28 23:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257281     5. What events led to the Cold War? (WHI.13a) nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257328 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 v. dictatorship and communism 
    • President Truman and the Policy of Containment 
    • Eastern Europe—Soviet satellite nations; the Iron Curtain ]]>     2018-04-28 23:02:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257328     6. What were the causes and consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union? (WHII.13a) nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257364 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]]>     2018-04-28 23:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257364     7. What was the policy of containment? (WHII.13c) nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257417
  • A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
    • ]]>     2018-04-28 23:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257417     VOCABULARY nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257500 1. Nuremburg Trials: a series of trials held between 1945 and 1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders, political officials, industrialists, and financiers for crimes they had committed during World War II.
    2. United Nations:      an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries.
    3. Cold War:     the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.
    4. Iron Curtain:     the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
    5. Warsaw Pact:     A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.]]>     2018-04-28 23:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256257500     Harry S. Truman nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256258077 2018-04-28 23:17:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256258077 Iron Curtain Trail nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256258181 2018-04-28 23:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256258181 Berlin Wall nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256258283 2018-04-28 23:22:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/zg5pu9l7meub/wish/256258283