Link for power points related to the Cold War

The Vietnam war document can be found on this site
http://www.pptpalooza.net/

Good luck!

The conferences: Yalta , Potsdam,Teheran

http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war4.htm

YALTA

POTSDAM

TEHERAN

The Cold War

The Cold War

http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war8.htm
http://www.casahistoria.net/cold_war.htm

Truman Doctrine

http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war8_TrumanDoctrine.htm

Zhdanov(Jdanov) Doctrine

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/seminar_docs/coldwar_doc2.html

Report by Andrei Zhdanov on the international situation to the Cominform/Kominform (Extracts)

The fundamental changes caused by the war on the international scene and in the position of individual countries has entirely changed the political landscape of the world. A new alignment of political forces has arisen. The more the war recedes into the past, the more distinct becomes two major trends in postwar international policy, corresponding to the division of the political forces operating on the international arena into two major camps: the imperialist and anti-democratic camp, on the one hand, and the anti-imperialist and democratic camp, on the other. The principal driving force of the imperialist camp is the U.S.A. Allied with it are Great Britain and France. ...

The anti-fascist forces comprise the second camp. This camp is based on the U.S.S.R. and the new democracies. It also includes countries that have broken with imperialism and have firmly set foot on the path of democratic development, such as Rumania, Hungary and Finland. Indonesia and Vietnam are associated with it; it has the sympathy of India, Egypt and Syria. The anti-imperialist camp is backed by the labor and democratic movement and by the fraternal Communist parties in all countries, by the fighters for national liberation in the colonies and dependencies, by all progressive and democratic forces in every country...

                                                                                                                    Andrei Zhdanov September 22, 1947

Marshall plan aid to Europe

In June 1947, the American general George Marshall went to Europe. He said every country in Europe was so poor that it was in danger of turning Communist! Europe was ‘a breeding ground of hate’. He said that America should give $17 billion of aid to get Europe’s economy going and stop Communism. Marshall said that it was up to the countries of Europe to decide what they needed. In July 1947, led by Britain and France, the countries of western Europe met in Paris, and asked for substantial economic aid.

Map of Europe during the cold war

WW2 CASUALTIES

http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/world-war-2-statistics.asp

Winston Churchill’s address to the House of Commons

Winston Churchill’s address to the House of Commons as Britain's new Prime Minister on Monday, May 13, 1940

Mister Speaker, on Friday evening last I received His Majesty's commission to form a new Administration........ A War Cabinet has been formed ……. I now invite the House, by the Resolution which stands in my name, to record its approval of the steps taken and to declare its confidence in the new Government…..

In this crisis I hope I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today. I hope that any of my friends and colleagues, or former colleagues, who are affected by the political reconstruction, will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined the government: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory; victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realized; no survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."

Winston Churchill - May 13, 1940

1.      Present the document (nature, author)

2.      Describe the historical background during which the document was written

3.      Explain the author’s intentions (who is the audience, what is his aim? his strategy)

4.      Was his country ever invaded during the war? why?

Great historical speeches

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm

Let us watch and listen to an excellent site for WW2

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/worldwar2/theatres-of-war/western-europe/1939/

The doctrine of the separation of powers

The doctrine of the separation of powers divides the institutions of government into three branches: legislative, executive and judicial: the legislature makes the laws; the executive put the laws into operation; and the judiciary interprets the laws. The powers and functions of each are separate and carried out by separate personnel. No single agency is able to exercise complete authority, each being interdependent on the other. Power thus divided should prevent absolutism (as in monarchies or dictatorships where all branches are concentrated in a single authority) or corruption arising from the opportunities that unchecked power offers. The doctrine can be extended to enable the three branches to act as checks and balances on each other. Each branch’s independence helps keep the others from exceeding their power, thus ensuring the rule of law and protecting individual rights.
Author: Graham Spindler(This article, suitable for Year 11-12 Legal Studies, originally appeared in the publication Legal Date in March 2000.)
http://parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/parlment/publications.nsf/key/SeparationofPowers

World War II

http://www.pptpalooza.net/

ANIMATED MAP WWII

Assigment 2

1. Open the animation and observe the different phases of WWII

http://www.fortmissoula.org/exhibits/ww/WWIImap.shtml

1. Divide the class into groups of two students each group
2. Every two students choose a phase of the war and research on it (from your book or other sources)
3. Your end product should be: a Power point presentation (minimm 7 slides explaining the phase you have chosen; you should be able to answer why, what, where, how when.... of each phase you have elected to study

7 CPP September 2011: Map of Europe 1939

Assignment 1                                

Map of Europe 1939

Questions:

Using your book as well as other sources:

1. Find the differences between the map of Europe in 1914 and that of 1939
2. Find on the map regions of potential conflicts; indicate them.
3. Explain from what you have learned last year the causes of those conflicts