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Roots of Cold War: Breakdown of Alliances - Unit 2.1

In this activity, students will identify and explain transitional phrases related to the breakdown of alliances during the Cold War. The lesson will cover major themes, unit question, and finish previous projects. The agenda also includes a breakdown of the wartime alliances through a PowerPoint presentation and notes. Key questions to be explored are the causes of Cold War, differences in American and Soviet ideas, and the impact of Germany's demise. This activity aims to analyze how fear affects our behavior. Guiding question: How did the USA-USSR alliance start to break down in 1945?

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Roots of Cold War: Breakdown of Alliances - Unit 2.1

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  1. Four Minutes • First Four Chart • Activity #1 • Label & date your paper. • Pp. 94-95 in Blue Book • Identify a transitional phrase & explain what it is doing. • Keep this with all of your other First Four work. End

  2. Today’s Agenda • Intro Unit 2.1 – Roots of Cold War • Major Themes & Unit Question • Finish Projects from Last Class • Brief presentations • Breakdown of the Wartime Alliances • PowerPoint & Notes

  3. Unit Question • How does fear affect our behavior? • Major Themes

  4. Group Projects • Pp. 94-95 • Visual – comic book, mind map, chart/graph, kids book, etc. • What was the Cold War? • How have different historians explained its causes? • How were American & Soviet ideas so different? • How did the demise of Germany contribute to it?

  5. Guiding Question • How did the USA-USSR alliance begin to break down in 1945? • The break-up of WW II allies…

  6. During the War, Britain and the USA were allies of the Soviet Union. • What happened? • Germany? • Ideology?

  7. In 1945, the Big Three held two conferences – at Yaltaand Potsdam– to try to sort out how they would organize the world after the war.   It was at these conferences that the tensions between the two sides became obvious.

  8. Goals of the Big Three • FDR • Spread democracy in Europe • Trusted Stalin • US & USSR on good terms

  9. Goals of the Big Three • Churchill • Did not trust Stalin • Concerned about a free Europe – stop spread of communism • Britain had gone to war in 1939 to protect Poland – didn’t want to abandon them to USSR

  10. Goals of the Big Three • Stalin • Obsessed with security for USSR • Protection from any future invasion • Wanted control of Poland

  11. Yalta • Divide Germany into four ‘zonesof occupation. • Bring Nazi war-criminals to trial. • USSR got huge part of Eastern Poland • Free elections as soon as possible in Poland. • Help people of Europe set up democratic and self-governing countries • Creation of United Nations • USSR to help US fight Japan in exchange for islands north of Japan

  12. What is the message? This cartoon by the American cartoonist Paul Plaschke appeared in the Chicago Tribune in early 1945.

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