Agenda• Bellringer

• Review Questions

• Notes: End of WWII

• Exit Ticket

Review Questions• Name the policy that caused many countries to ignore what Hitler was doing for the sake of

peace• Appeasement

• Why did the Soviet Union join the Allies? • Hitler invaded violating the Nazi-Soviet pact

• Name two reasons why the Soviets were able to defeat Hitler? • General Winter and Scorched Earth

• What was the Battle of the Bulge? • Hitler’s last push – ended in his suicide and an allied victory

• What was the slogan of the Bolshevik’s? • Peace, Land, Bread

• Who took power in the Soviet Union after Lenin died? • Stalin

End of WWIIWWII

Objective

• Students will identify the effects of WWII

Yalta Conference

• February 1945

• Stalin (USSR), Churchill (GB), and Roosevelt (US) meet

• Decision: British, French, American, and Soviet forces would control a part of Germany, Stalin had the right to control governments in Eastern Europe

Effects of WWII

• Death toll: 38 million in Europe, 22 million Soviets, 6 million Jews dead

• Nuremburg Trials– punished Nazi leaders for “crimes against humanity”

• Balfour Declaration• Idea of creating a homeland for the Jews after WII with the establishment of

Israel• Based on Zionism – Jewish nationalism

Paris Peace Treaty - 1947• Winning allies would have influence and control over defeated

axis powers

• Reparations established

• Borders were changed • African borders were set along imperial lines• No consideration for ethnic divisions

Effects of WWII• Nations are occupied – • West Germany and Japan were controlled by Western nations (France, GB,

US) • wanted to promote democracy and capitalism (free market)

• Eastern Europe controlled by Soviet Union• Wanted to promote communism

• United Nations – purpose to provide a place to discuss world problems and develop solutions• Replaced League of Nations• Still in place today, but still no enforcement power

Divisions• The Eastern European countries that the Soviet Union gains control of will become

known as satellite countries

• Poland

• Czechoslovakia

• Hungary

• Romania

• East Germany

• Bulgaria

United Nations• Permanent members: China, France, Russia, UK, and U.S.

• UNICEF: Children’s educational fund

• UNDP: Development Program, help developing nations

UNEP: Environmental

UNHCR: Refugee agency

UNESCO: Peace keeping

WHO: World Heath

WTO: Trade agreements

Other Effects• World has seen power of “the bomb”

• Need to regulate nuclear capabilities

• Europe has been divided between Communist and Capitalist control. This will lead to increased tensions (cold war)

Exit Ticket

Causes of WWII Effects of WWII

Exit Ticket

Causes of WWII Effects of WWIIAggressionAppeasementInvasion of Poland

Massive Human Casualties

Germany and Europe are divided between allied powers (Yalta conf.)

United NationsParis Peace TreatyNuremburg TrialsBalfour Declaration

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