1. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS= UNITED
NATIONS (UN)
• 1945, UN began with hopes
for preventing another
global war
• UN will negotiate
disagreements among
member nations
• UN would be able to use
force against agressor
nations
• Many Nations have
emerged and joined the
UN: peacekeeping and
aiding the world’s poor and
sick
2. REDRAWING THE MAP OF EASTERN
EUROPE
• Europe was divided into: FREE AND COMMUNIST-
CONTROLLED STATESSovi
• ets imposed totalitarian governments in the Satellite Nations
Soviets
imposed
totalitarian
governments
in the Satellite
Nations
3. NATO
• US and 11 European
nations formed a new
military alliance to stop
soviet expansion
4. Satellite Nations
• No free ellections were
allowed in Poland,
Romania,
Czechoslovakia,
Bulgaria, or Hungary
• Freedom fighters in
Hungary and
Czechoslovakia tried to
free their nations. They
did not get it
5. The Berlin Wall
• Communist wanted to
stop people who were
living East Germany.
East germans were
using West Berlin as an
escape route to
freedom.
• 1961, the Soviets built a
12 foot wall made of
barbed wire and several
layers of concrete
6. Legend:
1. Concrete segment wall (front
barrier element)
2. Control Area
3. Light masts
4. Trench to block the way for
vehicles
5. Concrete road
6. Watch tower
7. Area patrolled by dogs
8. Signal construction with trip
wires
9. Border signal fence
10. Turnpike (bounds of
protection area)
7. The wall split the city into two sections
separating families and friends.
Anyone who attempted to cross its
border was shot
8. • 1985, Mikhail
Gorbachev began to
allow freedom of
movement for people
living in Communist-
controlled nations
• 1989, The Berlin wall
came down after
Ronald Reagan
challenged Gorbachev
to tear down this wall
9. • Poland became the first to have democratic
ellections. Lech Walesa president.
• Bulgaria, Hungary followed
• Czechoslovakia «Velvet Revolution» took place
• Yugoslavia was not part of the Soviet Union but it
had a Communist Government, 1980 it became a
free nation
