(TY Subject Choice Presentation). Why Study History??? Your choice of subject for Leaving Certificate may influence your future career or third level.
Honor our Military Ron Devito, Publisher Bunker Hill.
Europe and North America. Big Three Truman-US Clement Attlee-Britain Stalin-Soviet Union Meet at Postdam (outside Berlin) Basic principles.
Distribution of Wealth – U.S. Survey: What they would like it to be Survey: What they believe it to be Reality: What it is – Where is the bottom 40%?
Kennedy and Khrushchev The United States and the Cold War.
Warm Up: Why would the Soviet Union focus so heavily on maintaining its control over the nations of Eastern Europe?
The Cold War 1945-1990. CAPITALISM an economic and political system in which businesses belong mostly to private owners, not to the government.
Get out your Vocab assignment. Look at the political cartoon on page 4- what does it mean to you?
THE BERLIN WALL Another Cold War crisis Background East – West rivalry Berlin divided – contrast the two halves. WEST: Prosperous, helped by US, attracted.
Cold War Political Division of Europe. 1945 “What is Europe now? A rubble heap, a charnel house, a breeding ground of pestilence and hate.” -- Winston.
DECLINE AND FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
THE BERLIN WALL. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West.