CCEH #41 Post-War Rebuilding and the Cold War

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At the Yalta Meeting the Big Three agreed that the Germans' surrender needed

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to be total and unconditional.

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The United States was also keen to compromise with the Soviets because the US wanted help in defeating: Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam

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Japan

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At Potsdam the status of postwar Germany was finalized. The defeated nation was divided four ways among the three main powers and what country?

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France

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What German city in the Soviet zone was similarly divided by American, Britain, France, and the USSR?

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Berlin

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German leaders would be tried and punished if found guilty which many eventually were at what series of trials?

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Nuremberg Trials

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This organization would adjudicate disputes and take collective action in case of aggression against threatened member states both through international economic sanctions and via a truly global armed force which never existed before.

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United Nations

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Stalin got the group to agree that any permanent member of the Security Council would have what power?

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veto

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UN created many important documents and guidelines in its early history, perhaps most notably the

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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What are some reasons the US emerged as a superpower?

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The United States was largely unharmed, post war productivity boomed making the US the wealthiest country in the world, and the United States gained two-thirds of the world's total supply of gold through sales of military equipment and other products.

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The United States began sending vast funds and goods to help war-torn nations in the west rebuild in what would be formalized as the

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Marshall Plan