1. End of WWII / Beginning of Cold War

4. Treatment of Germany: US and USSR Strategic alliances (Warsaw Pact, NATO) Threat of Atomic Warfare (WWIII) Ineffective League of Nations Terms of Treaty of Versailles Britain & France “ Peace-keepers” Allies take care of military needs of their regions German military effectively scrapped Military Potsdam Conference: Each Allied power could extract from their portion of Germany Loss of territories taken by Hitler Exorbitant - to Allies and Belgium Loss of colonies and Alsace-Lorraine War Indemnities De-Nazified; Democratic West Communist East Flawed Weimar Republic Political After WWII After WWI

10. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow. Winston Churchill, 1946

13. Iron Curtain…

20. Nuclear Testing

21. Nuclear Weapons