Creation of the United

Nations

1945 - Present

February 1945

The United Nations is “created” at the Yalta

(USSR) Conference

FDR

Churchill

Stalin

Countries would be invited to join…

Guess what their ultimate mission

would be???

To provide a place where nations could talk out

their differences (thus avoiding wars) and help

one another in times of trouble

The United Nations

Each member nation has 1 vote in the “general assembly”

They vote on things like granting aid to needy nations, creating a better world for the future, they also note which nations are behaving badly

This was the meeting of the first UN

General Assembly meeting – began in San

Francisco today their headquarters are in

New York City, New York

Member Nationshttp://www.un.org/en/members/

http://unfoundationblog.org/10-facts-about-

united-nations-peacekeeping/

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Who is NOT a member??

Taiwan ~ not really an independent nation as it

has been returned in ownership to the People’s

Republic of China

Vatican City ~ is an independent territory, but is

owned, run, and maintained by the Catholic

Church (it’s inside the nation of Italy)

The “Elite”

There is a select group

that only a few

nations at a time can

belong to….

It’s called the United

Nations

Who is a member???

(aka: Permanent Members)

USSR

=> If one of these nations do not like something and vote no it’s over…even if the other 4 and all of the rotating security council members vote yes!!!

CHINA

Who else is a member?

Current members…

Argentina (2014) Azerbaijan (2013)

Australia (2014) Guatemala (2013)

Luxemburg (2014) Morocco (2013)

Pakistan (2013) Rep. of Korea (2014)

Rwanda (2014) Togo (2013)

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The ultimate goals of the UN:

This is the current head

of the United

Nations….

Title:

Secretary General

Name:

Ban Ki-moon

From:

Republic of Korea

(South Korea)

This is the current US

Ambassador to the UN..

Title: Ambassador

Name: Samantha Power

Appointed by:

President Obama

The Cold War BeginsPost-WWII

After WWII

The “Allies” are no more

America The USSR

WHY???

Towards the end of

WWII major

differences between

the Soviet Union and

the rest of the former

Allies started to really

become obvious

USA USSR

New Superpowers

U

S

A

U

S

S

R

After WWII

Stalin has some very

specific goals…

1. Spread communism

in Eastern Europe

2. Create “buffer zone”

between the USSR

and Western

Democratic nations

like Germany and

France

What does Stalin do to achieve

these goals???

1 – He refuses to leave the nations that his

army took back from the NAZI’s when the

Soviets were headed to capture Berlin

What does Stalin do to achieve

these goals???

2 – Destroyed the governments of Poland,

Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania,

Hungary and East Germany and set up his

own pro-Soviet governments!!

What does Stalin do to achieve

these goals???

3 – Encouraged communists in other

countries to overthrow their governments

(especially Greece and Turkey)

Democratic Nations (USA)

Responds

The Allies had their own goals in

the Cold War

GOAL #1 – CONTAIN

COMMUNISM

We couldn’t do much (short

of war) to get the Soviets

out of where they were, but

we sure could try to contain

communism (or keep it

from spreading)

We kind of viewed

communism like a disease

STOPS THE

PESKY COMMUNIST

FROM SPREADING –

USE EVERY MINUTE

OF EVERY DAY

The Allies had their own goals in

the Cold War

GOAL #2 – Be stronger than the enemy

(This goal led to an arms race of insane

proportions!!)

By the end of the Cold War the United

States and the soviet Union had enough

nuclear fire power between them to

destroy the entire world 6 times!!

This 1961 cartoon shows Russia and America in an 'arms race'. The caption read: 'If we go on with this race, there won't be a winner!'

What ever happened to Germany

Germany is divided

Germany is divided

At the end of the war the Allies agree that Germany (and Berlin) will be divided and each major power will be given the responsibility of “de-nazifying” their area

4 countries responsible…

USA

France

Great Britain

Soviet Union

The goal?

De-program the Nazi population

Teach them about “good” government

The allow them to hold an election and re-

unify under one leader as a strong nation

What actually happened?

The US, GB, and France did just that and

decided to unite their 3 sections in 1947

=> this is what becomes known

as West Germany

Stalin refuses, and he is feeling

threatened by that little piece of

democracy in the middle of

Soviet controlled Germany!!

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West Germany :

Writes a Constitution

Becomes a democracy

East Germany:

Remains under control

of the USSR

Is ruled by a pro-Soviet

dictatorship

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Winston Churchill makes a speech saying that Soviet

Communism is descending across Europe like an

Iron Curtain

What happens next Mrs. Davis??

Problems in Berlin

Remember that Berlin (which was also

united in 47 by Great Britain, France, and

the USA) is firmly inside the boarder of

Soviet controlled East Germany!!

Sooooooooo

In West Berlin (city) people are recovering

nicely after the war with help from France,

Great Britain, and the USA

That little city is inside the Soviet

controlled country of East Germany (which

Stalin is looting of everything valuable)

Well Duh!!

Not surprisingly people from East

Germany go into West Berlin

Then they get on a plane

Then they fly to West Germany

June 1948

Stalin orders his army

to blockade every

railway and highway

leading from East

Germany into West

Berlin

Guess his goal…

Are the remaining Allies going

to let this happen??

Democratic Response

An airlift the likes of which the world had

never known…food, fuel, soap, even

Christmas toys

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFHESw

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFHESw7rK4I

Statistics

Began June 24th, ‘48 with Soviet Blockade

Airlift started June 28th, 1948 led by General

Lucius Clay

Blockade ended May 11th, 1949 (airlift continued

until September of 49)

In that time 2,250,000 tons of supplies were dropped

(more than 1.5 million tons of coal alone)

At it height the airlift had a plane landing in West

Berlin every single minute

277,804 flights would be made

In this British cartoon from 1948, Stalin

watches as the storks fly coal and food

into Berlin, but he dares not shoot them

down

General Clay

The Berlin Airlift memorial is dedicated to the 78 pilots and crew

killed in crashes during the Airlift. Their names can be seen here

inscribed along the base of the memorial. The German inscription

at the top reads: "They gave their lives for the freedom of Berlin

serving in the Airlift 1948/49."

ME & MY FRIENDS

In 1949 12 nations came together to form

what we still call the North Atlantic Treaty

Organization (NATO)

They pledged to help one another should

any one of them come under attack

NATO INCLUDED…

United States Norway

Great Britain Portugal

France Belgium

Canada Netherlands

Denmark Luxembourg

Iceland Italy

Greece & Turkey joined in 52 and West Germany came in 1955.

TODAY’S NATO

= 28 member nations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states

_of_NATO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_NATO

The Soviet Union makes their own

friendship circle

Made up of the USSR &

the USSR

No actually it was the USSR and all those

countries they refused to leave after WWII

Satellites

We call them the Soviet Satellite countries

because their job was to revolve around

the Soviet government

They called their gang….

Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia,

East Germany, Hungary, Poland,

Romania, the Soviet Union