1. Flash Forward!
The time after WWII

2. Mini Objective #1
SWBAT compare the power shifts that were
caused by the WWII

3. Pacific Theater
• Japan gets greedy

4. • Invades US & British Colonies in the Pacific

5. Bombs Pearl Harbor
• US Enters the war
• Island Hopping

6. Harry Truman is the BOMB!
• Do I or Don’t I?
T-P-S
• What are the pros of dropping the bomb?
• What are the cons of dropping the bomb?
• Should he?
• Does he?

7. Hiroshima & Nagasaki

8. Yalta Conference
• What's a conference?
• February 1945
• Allied leaders divide Germany
• 2 super powers emerge from WWII?

9. TPS: Who do you think they are?

10. TENSION begins!!!
• US wants a whole democratic Germany

11. What do you think the Soviets want?
• Want a divided Germany
• So it wouldn’t have the power to start wars

12. This begins the COLD WAR!
• Democracy Vs. Communism
• All competition
• Testing nuclear weapons
• Space Race
• Increases tension
• Cuban Missile Crisis

13. Checking for Understanding
• What two super powers emerge from WWII?
• What is the Cold War?
• What kinds of competition came about?

14. Mini Objective # 2
• SWBAT Understand the importance of the
Truman Doctrine & the Marshall Plan

15. During WWII
• What type of foreign policy did the US have?

16. This changes after WWII
• New policy
• Containment
• What do you think containment means?
• Who or what do you think that the US is trying
to contain?

17. Write this down
• Containment-acting to contain the spread of
Communism

18. Containment Policy
• There are 2

19. Truman Doctrine
• US offered foreign aid to any country threatened
by communism and its expansion

20. Marshall Plan`
• Provided help to 16 European countries that
struggled to recover from WWII
• Why would the US do this?
• Tps
• If the countries were strong they could resist the
spread of communism