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Section 4-Main Idea

The BIG Idea Competition Among Countries After World War II, a new set of Cold War problems faced the international community. Political tensions, suspicions, and a conflict of ideas led the United States and the Soviet Union into the Cold War. Section 4-Main Idea. The Big Three

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Section 4-Main Idea

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  1. The BIG Idea Competition Among CountriesAfter World War II, a new set of Cold War problems faced the international community. Political tensions, suspicions, and a conflict of ideas led the United States and the Soviet Union into the Cold War Section 4-Main Idea

  2. The Big Three *Leaders in WWII and Post WWII Peace *Great Britain *France *USA

  3. Peace and a New War (cont.) • After World War II, tensions between Russia and the United States grew, resulting in a period of political tensions known as the Cold War. Europe After World War II Section 4

  4. Cold War the period of political tension following World War II and ending with the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s Vocab19

  5. The Tehran Conference was held in November of 1943. Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met in Tehran to discuss the final assault on Germany and made an agreement to partition postwar Germany.

  6. Peace and a New War (cont.) • The Yalta Conference brought the leaders of the Big Three together again in February 1945 to discuss Eastern Europe. • The Soviet Union would gain Sakhalin and the Kuril, and railroad rights in Manchuria from Japan. • The United Nations was created. • Germany was divided into four zones. • Free elections were to be held in Poland. Section 4

  7. Peace and a New War (cont.) • The Potsdam Conference was held in July 1945, at which the Allies agreed to hold trials for war crimes. • The Soviets would not agree to free elections for the rest of Eastern Europe. • A new struggle arose between the democratic west and communist east, once again bitterly dividing the world. Section 4

  8. The Nuremberg Trials: Tried major war criminals and organizations (ex: the Nazi Party) Held, ironically, in Nuremberg- home of the Nuremberg Laws

  9. A B C D Which nation was not a part of the Big Three? A.The United States B.Great Britain C.The Soviet Union D.France Section 4

  10. Figure 11

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