4.1 A divided Europe

A divided Europe

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This lesson contains 22 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

Lesson duration is: 50 min

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A divided Europe

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After WOII

* Conference of Yalta

* Conference of Potsdam (Germany)

* What to do with Germany?

* Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin

* The big three

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What did they agree:

1. Germany would be divided into four occupied zones

* Each zone managed by one Allied country

* Berlin divided in four zones

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What did they agree:

2. Countries had to stay democratic

3. The Allies would cooperate closely

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Result

* Allied leaders didn't trust each other

* Afraid the other would expand their power

* US and Soviet Union

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Iron Curtain

* Churchill

* Iron Curtain -> Boundry between

* Democratic/capitalist West <-> Communist East

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1949 Dividing of Western and Eastern Europe

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Cold War

* Communist parties took control in Eastern Europe

* Help of Stalin

* Tension increased

* New world war? Nuclear weapons?

* 1945

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Marshall Plan

* US afraid countries would become communist

* Difficult circumstances after the war

* Domino theory

* Economic help

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Marshall Plan

European countries in crisis

Loans to rebuilt the economy

Obligated to remain capitalistic and democratic

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Results of the Marshall Plan

in Western Europe

* Good for the American economy

* Economies grew rapidly -> West Germany

= Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle)

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Results of the Marshall Plan in Eastern Europe

* US support banned by Stalin

* Planned economie

* Eastern Europe remaind behind

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Free-market economy

Planned economy

Stalin

Free competition

Freedom

USA

Sovjet-Union

communism

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Which 3 countries were the key Allied countries

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Who are the Big Three?

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Kapitalisme

Communisme

BRD

DDR

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What is Marshall plan?

aid for children in Afrika

aid from the USA for European recovery

aid voor soldiers

aid for the SU during the Cold War

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What was an important reason for the USA to offer Marshall Plan?

The USA wanted:

to defeat the power of communism or political parties in Western-Europe

to defeat the difference between the communis-kapitalisme

to devalued the power of the dollar by aiding financial help.

a collaboration in Europa after fighting two wars.

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Make the assignments of paragraph 4.1

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