Chapter 62 Outline

Outline:

CH 62 LIFE AFTER THE BIG BANG:  THE POST-WAR WORLD

TIME LINE

1945    1948    1952    1955    1969

                                                SD Willy Brandt becomes chancellor

                                    Germany joins NATO

                        End of Occupation in Germany

            Berlin Airlift

Feb.: Yalta Conference

May:  Victory in Europe

August 6:  Hiroshima attacked

August 8:  USSR declares war on Japan

August 9:  Nagasaki attacked

August 10:  Japanese surrender

NAMES IN ORDER OF PRESENTATION

Joseph Stalin

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Winston Churchill

London Poles and Lublin Poles

Katyn Forest Massacre

Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia

Bulgaria, Rumania

Hungary, Yugoslavia

Czechoslovakia

Jan Mazaryk

Leyte Gulf Battle

East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

Okinawa

Admiral Suzuki & Emperor Hirohito

Secretary of War Stimson & Chief of Staff Marshall

Admiral Leahy’s Blue Water Strategy

Potsdam Conference

Clement Atlee

Werewolf insurgency

Federal Republic of Germany

General Lucius Clay

Social Democrats with Kurt Schumacher

Christian Democratic Union with Konrad Adenauer

Free Democratic Party

European Coal and Steel Community

Bundeswehr

Ludwig Erhard:  Wirtschaftswunder

Volkswagen, Bayer, Siemens, Farben

Gastarbeiter program

Willy Brandt

Ostpolitik

OUTLINE

I.  Yalta Conference

            A.  United Nations

            B. Poland

II. Post-War Eastern Europe

III. Post-War Germany or … Germanies

IV. Japan

            A.  Bringing the war to an end:  Soviet promises

            B.  Allied victories in the Pacific

            C.  The Atomic Bomb?  My own feeling was that, in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to barbarians of the Dark Ages.  I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.  Admiral Leahy

V.  Potsdam Conference

            A.  Italy can join U. N.  Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary too

            B.  Spain is isolated

            C. Poland:  where are the 8 million Volkdeutsch?

            D.  Germany:  no reunification for now

            E.  Austrian reunification completed

VI. Article 28 Gaudium et Spes sets the pace for Western Europe

            Berlin Airlift

            Economic unity and recovery of West Germany

QUESTIONS

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