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World Class Education kean

Explore the significant events and impacts of Post-World War II Europe, from the Cold War era to the formation of the European Union. Learn about economic, demographic impacts, creation of the United Nations, and the path to European integration.

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World Class Education kean

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  1. World Class Educationwww.kean.edu

  2. Cold War to European Union History 3000 Elizabeth Hyde

  3. Map 22.1: The Impact of World War II on Europe (p. 954)

  4. Dealing with the Aftermath of World War II • Economic impact • Demographic Impact • Creation of United Nations • Coming to terms with the Holocaust • 1945 Nuremburg Trials • 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights • 1949 Genocide made a Crime

  5. Mapping The West: Europe at War’s End, 1945 (p. 948)

  6. Dealing with the Aftermath of World War II • Economic impact • Demographic Impact • Creation of United Nations • Coming to terms with the Holocaust • 1945 Nuremburg Trials • 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights • 1949 Genocide made a Crime

  7. Decolonization • Impossible to maintain after WWII • French decolonization • Indochina • North Africa • Great Britain • India • Creation of Pakistan

  8. Polarization in the Aftermath of the War • New alliances • NATO • Soviet Union • Stalinist repression • Creation of the Warsaw Pact

  9. Map 22.3: European NATO Members and the Warsaw Pact in the 1950s (p. 960)

  10. Arms Race • 1952 and 1953: Hydrogen bombs (US and USSR) • 1955: US B-52 bombers • 1950s: ICBMS • US in Turkey • USSR in Cuba • Cuban Missile Crisis

  11. Soviet Policy after Stalin • Khrushchev • De-Stalinization • Strengthening of Warsaw Pact

  12. Mapping The West: The Cold War World, c. 1960 (p. 988)

  13. USSR leadership • Brezhnev • Andropov • Chernenko • Mikhail Gorbachev • Perestroika • Glasnost • Afghanistan War

  14. Collapse of USSR: 1989 • 1989 Gorbachev visited Beijing, sparking protests in China • Declines to intervene in Soviet Bloc countries when they demand freedoms • Poland • Hungary • Germany • Czechoslovakia • Romania

  15. Collapse of USSR, continued • Economic distress • 1990 announces leap into free markets • Attempted right-wing coup averted by Boris Yeltsin • Gorbachev’s power broken • USSR legally dissolved 1 January 1992

  16. Growth of the European Union • History of pan-European idea • Search for economic partnerships • Jean Monnet and Paul-Henri Spaak • 1947 Benelux countries form customs union • 1951 European Coal and Steel Community • 1957 Treaty of Rome • 1959 Creation of EFTA

  17. European Union, continued • 1963 British membership to EEC blocked by France • 1973 Britain, Ireland, Denmark join EEC • 1981 Greece becomes member • 1986 Spain and Portugal join • 2004 former Soviet Bloc states join

  18. European Union • Executive Branch • European Parliament • European Court of Justice • European Council

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