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Chapter 30: Cold War, Conflicts and Social Transformations 1945-1985
//Guided Reading: 981-989//

1. At the end of World War Two, the Allies could not cooperate in peacemaking. By the end of 1947, what great division was apparent? 2. Who were the Big Three? What did they agree on at the Tehran Conference in November 1943? On what issues/strategies did they disagree? 3. What was the territorial situation like by the time of the Yalta Conference in February 1945? 4. What agreements were made at Yalta? 5. What was the major issue of conflict at the Potsdam Conference of July 1945? 6. In what way is this the “key to the much-debated origins of the cold war”? 7. Who coined the phrase “iron curtain” and what did it mean? 8. What was the Truman Doctrine? Aid to what two countries were the first signed of the Truman Doctrine in action? 9. What was the Marshall Plan? How did Stalin react? 10. What was NATO created as and what doe sit stand for? 11. What group did Stalin form in response (it was made up of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in E. Europe)?
 * The Division of Europe**

//Overall idea:// At the end of World War Two Germany was divided into zones occupied by the Allies. The British, French and American eventually merged their zones into an independent West Germany. The Soviet zone became the nation of East German, a satellite state under heavy Soviet influence.
 * The Western Renaissance**

12. What condition was Germany in by the spring of 1947? 13. What political party emerged to take key leadership positions in Italy, France, West Germany 14. What kinds of social reforms were adopted in France, Italy and Britain? 15. How did Marshall Plan aid affect western Europe? 16. How did democracy, self-determination and individual rights fare in post-war western Europe? (989) 17. What was the goal of the Council of Europe proposed in 1948? Which nation led the opposition to this plan? 18. With this failure to move toward political unity, leaders focused instead on building economic unity in western Europe. The French took the lead and called for integration in coal and steel production. 19. What six nations signed on to this plan. What was the far-reaching goal of this union? 20. What did the 1957 Treaty of Rome create? What were the goals? The outcome? 21. Who came to lead France in the late 1950s and with his nationalist approach ended up partly sabotaging efforts at European political unity and good relations with the U.S. in the 1960s?