Ending & Effects of WWII

Ending &
Effects of
WWII (Beginning
of Cold War)

TO DO:

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SWBAT:

○Understand the impact of WWII on the world and the U.S. specifically
economically, culturally, and socially

⪢Agenda:

○Quizizz Lesson & Paragraph Analysis Assignment

⪢Standards:

○GI Bill

○1950s economic boom

○interstate system

○The Sunbelt

○United Nations

○Partition of Germany

○attitude toward Jews during 1930s & WWII

○Holocaust

○portrayal of WWII in 1940s popular culture (music, fashion, film, comics)

○the “Baby Boom”

○impact of television

○Car culture

○Levittown and suburbanization

○1950s consensus culture

○rock and roll/new music and art
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Yalta Conference (Feb. 1945)

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Big Three (FDR, Churchill,
Stalin) agree that Poland,
Bulgaria, and Romania would
have free elections

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Stalin later reneged on this
promise

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Soviets already were occupying
most of Eastern Europe

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Potsdam Conference (July 1945)

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Truman, Clement Atlee &
Winston Churchill, and Stalin
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Truman distrusted Stalin

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Didn’t tell him about the
atomic bomb

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Stalin knew he had it due to
spies
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Initiates Cold War

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Agreed to divide Germany into 4
military zones (Soviet,
American, British, and French)