End of WWII

an international financial institution that provides financial and technical support to developing countries to reduce poverty and improve living standards

• World Bank

• United Nations

• Nuremberg Trials

• Yalta Conference

What was the main purpose of establishing the United Nations in 1945?

• To develop nuclear weapons

• To maintain international peace and security

• To promote colonization of new territories

• To establish trade agreements among nations

a series of military tribunals held after World War II in Nuremberg, Germany, where prominent Nazi leaders were prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.

• World Bank

• United Nations

• Nuremberg Trials

• Yalta Conference

the World War II meeting in February 1945, of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe

• World Bank

• United Nations

• Nuremberg Trials

• Yalta Conference

meeting held in Potsdam, Germany in July-August 1945, where the leaders of the Allied powers (United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union) gathered to discuss and decide on the post-World War II reconstruction of Germany, including its division into occupied zones, and to set terms for the future of Europe, laying the groundwork for the Cold War that followed.

• Potsdam Conference

• United Nations

• Nuremberg Trials

• Yalta Conference

Who were the key players at the Yalta Conference?

• Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, and Xi Jinping

• Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo

• Nikita Khrushchev, Leon Trotsky, and Mikhail Gorbachev

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin

What were the long-term effects of the Yalta Conference?

• Creation of the Warsaw Pact and dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Division of Germany and establishment of the United Nations

• Unification of Germany and dissolution of the United Nations

• Establishment of the European Union and division of the United Nations

What were the trials called that tried Nazi war criminals?

• Potsdam
• Yalta
• Stalingrad
• Nuremberg

What was the primary goal of the Potsdam Conference, held in July 1945?

• To plan the invasion of Japan

• To decide the post-war division of Germany and Europe

• To establish the United Nations

• To negotiate a peace treaty with Italy

An international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development

• Mussolini's Fascism

• Treaty of Versailles

• United Nations

• Nuremberg Trials