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Aim: How has Europe evolved in the post-WWII era?. Do Now: What do you already know about Europe in the post-WWII era?. EUROPE SINCE 1945. A DIVIDED EUROPE How? East and West “Iron Curtain” Germany divided. AFTERMATH AND LEGACY OF WORLD WAR II. Legacy Costly – over 50 million dead
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Aim: How has Europe evolved in the post-WWII era? Do Now: What do you already know about Europe in the post-WWII era?
EUROPE SINCE 1945 A DIVIDED EUROPE • How? • East and West • “Iron Curtain” • Germany divided
AFTERMATH AND LEGACY OF WORLD WAR II Legacy • Costly – over 50 million dead • Dangers of extreme nationalism and militarism • Lessons of Munich (appeasement) • Lessons of Holocaust • Nuremberg Trials • Total War
Aim: How has Europe evolved in the post-WWII era? Do Now: • What is meant by the Cold War? • Why were the U.S. and the Soviet Union considered “Super Powers”? • During the Cold War years how did the U.S. and the Soviet Union compete?
EUROPE SINCE 1945 TWO SUPERPOWERS • U.S. and U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union) • Economic and nuclear powers THE COLD WAR BEGINS • Competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union (1945-1991) • Tension and hostility between two superpowers • Democracy/capitalism v. Communism • Domino theory • Policy of containment • Truman Doctrine • Marshall Plan CRISIS IN GERMANY • Berlin Airlift • Berlin Wall (1961)
EUROPE SINCE 1945 COLD WAR AND OPPOSING MILITARY ALLIANCES • NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) • Warsaw Pact
EUROPE SINCE 1945 COLD WAR HEATS UP • Repression in Eastern Europe (East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia) • Arms Race • The Space Race
EUROPE SINCE 1945 COLD WAR CONFLICTS AROUND THE WORLD • Korean War • Vietnam War • Arab-Israeli conflict • Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya • Africa (civil wars) • Latin America (Cuba) • Non-alignment • Role of the United Nations
EUROPE SINCE 1945 ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE • West German economic miracle • European Economic Unification • European Coal and Steel Community (1952) • Common Market (1957) – or European Community • European Union (EU) – by 2004 had 25 member states including former communist countries • New currency – Euro • Trend is toward free-trade and free-flow of labor and capital across borders
Aim: How has Europe evolved in the post-WWII era? Summary: • What is meant by the “Cold War”? • Why was NATO created? • Why was the Warsaw Pact created? What is its status today? • What purpose does NATO serve today? • What is the “domino theory”? • What foreign policy came about to counter the “domino theory”?