Warm Up: Corners • A tornado has wiped out your neighborhood. You go home to inspect the damage, and there’s a man writing out checks to people whose houses were destroyed. He offers you a check that will be enough to repair your home. He says there are no strings attached and nothing you have to do for it. Why did he give you the
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Warm Up: Corners A tornado has wiped out your neighborhood. You go home to inspect the damage, and there’s a man writing out checks to people whose houses.
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Warm Up: Corners
• A tornado has wiped out your neighborhood. You go home to inspect the damage, and there’s a man writing out checks to people whose houses were destroyed. He offers you a check that will be enough to repair your home. He says there are no strings attached and nothing you have to do for it. Why did he give you the money?
• Choose the corner you agree with the most
Objectives
• Content: Interpret a map on the Marshall Plan and rank the top two countries who received aid.
• Learning: List 5 rights guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Cold War
Post WWII and the 1950’s
Rebuilding After WWII
• United States wanted to prevent economic and political instability in Europe.
• Marshall Plan–George C. Marshall’s plan to provide
Europe with massive economic aid ($) to help rebuild their economies and to prevent the spread of Communism (Containment)
Post War Germany
• Germany was partitioned into West and East Germany– West Germany
became Democratic and returned to self-rule after occupation.
– East Germany became Communist and stayed under Soviet control.
Post War Japan• America stayed in Japan
for 7 years to re-build• Japan was demilitarized,
adopted a democratic government, and returned to self-rule
• Japan soon became an ally of the United States
United Nations • Formed near the end of WWII
to prevent future global wars• First United Nations (UN)
meeting in 1946 in California– 50 nations attended and
agreed to settle disputes peacefully
• Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
U.S. Economy• Switched from making war materials to
consumer goods• The economy was strong– Increased demand for American
• U.S. and other free countries signed an agreement called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)– Promise to defend each other against an attack
by a Communist nation (“to attack one is to attack all”)
• In response to NATO, Communist countries signed a similar agreement called the Warsaw Pact. – The U.S.S.R. was the leader
U.S. At Home: The Red Scare
• Red = Communism• Senator Joe McCarthy began a Communist
witch hunt in the early 1950’s. He identified US citizens he believed to be supporters of Communism. (McCarthyism)
• Thousands of people were accused of espionage (spying), ruining their lives and careers.