Flash Forward!The time after WWII

Mini Objective #1

SWBAT compare the power shifts that were caused by the WWII

Pacific Theater

•Japan gets greedy

•Invades US & British Colonies in the Pacific

Bombs Pearl Harbor

•US Enters the war•Island Hopping

Harry Truman is the BOMB!

•Do I or Don’t I?T-P-S•What are the pros of dropping the bomb?•What are the cons of dropping the bomb?•Should he?•Does he?

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Yalta Conference

•What's a conference?•February 1945•Allied leaders divide Germany •2 super powers emerge from WWII?

TPS: Who do you think they are?

TENSION begins!!!

•US wants a whole democratic Germany

What do you think the Soviets want?

•Want a divided Germany •So it wouldn’t have the power to start

wars

This begins the COLD WAR!

•Democracy Vs. Communism•All competition•Testing nuclear weapons•Space Race•Increases tension•Cuban Missile Crisis

Checking for Understanding

•What two super powers emerge from WWII?

•What is the Cold War?•What kinds of competition came about?

Mini Objective # 2

•SWBAT Understand the importance of the Truman Doctrine & the Marshall Plan

During WWII

•What type of foreign policy did the US have?

This changes after WWII

•New policy •Containment•What do you think containment means?•Who or what do you think that the US is

trying to contain?

Write this down

•Containment-acting to contain the spread of Communism

Containment Policy

•There are 2

Truman Doctrine

•US offered foreign aid to any country threatened by communism and its expansion

Marshall Plan`

•Provided help to 16 European countries that struggled to recover from WWII

•Why would the US do this?•Tps

•If the countries were strong they could resist the spread of communism