blitzkrieg

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• blitzkrieg
• communism
• dictatorship
• genocide, The Holocaust
• enlistment posters
• rationing
• appeasement
• mobilization of the economy
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• political cartoons
• Harry Truman

• Nisei
• Rosie the Riveter
• Japanese invasion of Manchuria
• The Neutrality Acts of 1935
• German annexation of Austria
• cash-and-carry policy
• The Manhattan Project
• GI Bill of Rights passed
• Hiroshima

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The Post War period 1945-1948The End of WWII
The Start of the Cold War
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The United Nations Created (June 26,1945)
The Five Permanent members of the UN Security
Council -US -Britain -USSR -France -China
Permanent members have VETO power over any
resolutions made by the General Assembly of
nations
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Structure of the UN
Security Council 15 members 5 permanent
members, 10 elected members

• Argentina (L. America)
• Republic of the Congo (Africa)
• Denmark (W. Europe)
• Ghana (Africa)
• Greece (W. Europe)
• Japan (Asia)
• Peru (L. America)
• Qatar (Asia, Arab)
• Slovakia (E. Europe)
• Tanzania (Africa)

General Assembly 184 Nations
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-The nation of Israel created by the UN as a
homeland for the Jews in 1948 -Problem Muslim
Palestinians were already living in that region
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Hitlers Germany Defeated, 1945 Russians greet
the Americans in Germany
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The Division of Germany
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Divided Berlin (1945-1948)
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Berlin Wall built by Soviets
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Berlin Airlift (1948-9)
12E
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• US occupies Japan, 1945-1948
• Soviets move into Korea

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Communism spreading
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The Cold War1945-1991
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N.A.T.O. WARSAW PACT
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The Iron Curtain drops across Europe
(late 1940s)
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World Divided

• West vs East
• Berlin, Germany, Europe, the World
• NATO vs Warsaw Pact
• USA vs Soviet Union
• Capitalism vs Communism
• Freedom vs Slavery?

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Capitalism vs. Communism
Different Economic and Political Systems

• Competition among buyers and sellers of goods,
  people purchase what they want/need.
• You can work hard, make money and get ahead
  (American Dream)
• Multi-party system Democrats and Republicans,
  etc.

• Goods provided to people through government
  planning, distribution. Govt owns all property.
  Everyone is economically equal.
• Only one political party the Communist Party

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CommunismWhy did Americans fear it?

• Government would take away your property,
  redistribute it
• We would lose some basic freedoms
• Communist governments suppress religion
  Godless commies
• Communists ideology states that communist
  revolutions will occur all over the world, says
  capitalists are greedy and oppressive

Karl Marx (1818-1883)
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The Truman Doctrine (1947) 2min 37sec
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The Truman Doctrine

• The US should support free peoples throughout the
  world who are resisting takeovers by armed
  minorities or outside pressures
• Translation
• -Free peoples capitalistic, democratic
• -Armed minorities communist revolutionaries
• -Outside pressures USSR (the Soviets,
  Moscow, the Kremlin, Stalin, Bolsheviks)

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400 million aid to Turkey and Greece
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The Marshall PlanAn economic recovery plan paid
for by the USA to rebuild post-war European
countries into capitalist allies
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The Marshall Plan (1948)

• 12.5 Billion given to European countries to
  help rebuild, prevent communism

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Satellite Nations
Small Nations surrounding the Soviet Union, act
as a buffer zone between USSR, NATO countries
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The Domino Effect
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Falling like Dominoes
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Containment

• Keep communism from spreading, contain it
• Containment is the driving idea in US foreign
  policy for almost 50 years, 1945-1989

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Red China

• Mao Zedong
• (Mao Tse-Tung)

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Chinese Communist Revolution(1949)
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• Cold War
• Capitalism
• Communism
• Satellite nation
• The Iron Curtain, Eastern Europe
• Berlin Wall
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Containment
• The Domino Effect

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Nuclear Threat
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Cold War affects pop culture