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STARTER – How AND WHY did the Big Three disagree about these issues at Potsdam?

STARTER – How AND WHY did the Big Three disagree about these issues at Potsdam?. Polish borders. Elections in eastern Europe. Reparations. All of these countries had been liberated by the Soviet (‘Red’) Army . FREE ELECTIONS. REPARATIONS. 25% to…. POLISH BORDERS. TODAY….

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STARTER – How AND WHY did the Big Three disagree about these issues at Potsdam?

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  1. STARTER – How AND WHY did the Big Three disagree about these issues at Potsdam? Polish borders Elections in eastern Europe Reparations

  2. All of these countries had been liberated by the Soviet (‘Red’) Army FREE ELECTIONS

  3. REPARATIONS 25% to….

  4. POLISH BORDERS

  5. TODAY…. • How and why did the Soviet Union take over Eastern Europe from 1945 onwards? • Which territories were added to the USSR? • Which territories came under Soviet influence (control)? • How did the Soviet Union achieve this? • For what reasons did they take over Eastern Europe? • How did these events worsen relations with the Western Powers (USA & Britain)?

  6. How and why did the USSR take over Eastern Europe from 1945 onwards?

  7. Watch this video about Soviet expansion into eastern Europe. Can you remember 3 points from it?

  8. How and why did the USSR take over Eastern Europe from 1945 onwards? EXPLANATION

  9. ACTIVITY – writing your own explanation of events • Stick your map into the centre of a clean DOUBLE page in your book. Annotate it to explain the following. Make sure your notes actually use the words shown in bold…. • Which countries were annexed by the USSR (ie. added to the Soviet Union’s territory) in 1945? How? • Which countries became Soviet satellite states? What does this mean? What was set up in these countries? How did this go against the decision made at the Yalta Conference? • What changes were made to Poland’s borders? • What was the Iron Curtain? • Time to complete: 10 minutes

  10. ACTIVITY • Why and how did the USSR take over Eastern Europe from 1945 onwards? • Read through the text on the handout. • Make a set of notes/mindmap to summarise this text. • Make use of the subheadings given in on the handout. • Really make an effort to summarise…. • For the percentages deal, it’s fine just to take a couple of details from source A – eg. Britain to have 90% influence over Greece, USSR to have 90% influence over Romania, and what Stalin thought Churchill meant by this deal • Time to complete: rest of the lesson plus homework

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