Lecture 18

I. Announcements and Review

A. Announcements

B. Questions

1. What were the similarities & differences between the restoration that took place after WWI and that which took place after WWII?

2. How did the experiences of war shape the immediate post-war period?

3. To what extent did the growing rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union shape the restoration?

II. Reconstruction in an age of uncertainty

A. End of War

B. Aftermath of War

1. summer of 1945

2. refugee crisis

3. restoration of social and political order

C. Shifts in Power

D. Restoration and Denazification

E. The Creation of New Governments

1. Western Europe

2. Germany

III. Early Tensions

A. Fear of Communist threat

B. Blockade and Airlift

C. European Cultural Shifts

D. new economic plans

E. new international alliances

F. new military alliances

IV. End of The European Empires?

V. Questions

• What was the process of restoration that took place in Europe at the end of WWII? What were the similarities & differences between the two restoration processes that followed each World War?

• How did the experiences of war shape the immediate post-war period?

• Why did the United States and the USSR experience a growing rivalry during WWII? Why did it intensify after WWII?

• What was “The Schuman plan on European Unity”? Why was it significant

TERMS

Refugee

Displaced Persons

Five year plan

United Nations

Nuremberg Trials

Denazification

Yalta Agreement

Occupation zones of Berlin

German Federal Republic

Konrad Adenauer

Marshall Plan

Truman Doctrine

Berlin Airlift

NATO

Samuel Beckett

George Orwell

Ray Bradbury

Ian Fleming

European Coal and Steel Community

Treaty of Rome

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECOM)

Warsaw Pact