Friday.

Bracket -- Martin Luther vs. John Locke Chronology Quiz

Get out a clean sheet of paper 14.1 NOTES

The Cold War under Stalin

QUIA TEST – take it this weekend if you want as a means of review

Random Fact of the Day During the 18th century, you could pay

your admission ticket to the zoo in London by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions.

The Cold War under Stalin (1945-1956)

14.1

Free elections?Stalin says yes then no

Different World Views

SOVIET

Democracies are hostile to communism

Democracies stalled to open western front in WW2

Has a right to control Eastern Europe after liberating them from Nazis

AMERICAN

Stalin sought to create “spheres” of influence in Europe

Stalin lied at peace conferences

Churchill: Iron Curtain speech

Partition of Germany

1949 West Germany East Germany

Soviets wantreparations

CONTAINMENTKEEPING COMMUNISM IN CHECK

The Truman Doctrine (1947)

US pledges to stop spread of communism Eastern Europe is left to

communism

US helps Greece and Turkey to put down communism

Marshall Plan US sends $13 billion to war-

torn Europe to help rebuild Triggers “economic miracle”

Berlin Crisis (1948-49)

Soviets attempt to remove Allied powers from Berlin – blockade the roads

USA leads airlift to drop supplies to west Berlin Soviets lift blockade

after 11 months

BERLIN CANDY BOMBER

Creation of NATO (1949)

Western democracies unite to support each other in the event of a Soviet attack

West Germany joins NATO in 1954…triggers creation of Warsaw Pact (USSR-led)

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Bracket – da Vinci vs. Columbus

Finish 14.1 NOTES Start 14.2 NOTES

TURN IN UNIT 13 PETS

Random Fact of the Day In Bangladesh, children of 15

years old and older can be put in jail for cheating on their final exams.

Trials in Asia

1949 – Communist revolution in China Led by Mao Zedong

Korean War (1950-53) Korea divided after

WWII…North invades South

BIG test for United Nations

Cease fire reached in 1953

“MASSIVE RETALITATION”

1953

RULE OF JOSEPH STALINPOST WWII

Oppressive Rule Returns

Eastern Europe Communist parties dominated politics and

reported to Moscow▪ Yugoslavia the lone exception – Josip Broz Tito

Czechoslovakia, a democracy before war, was transformed to one-party communist state

12 million citizens died from 1946-1953 Most die in the gulags

Five-year plans return…culture/art purged

DEATH OF STALIN – 1953