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

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

NATO

• US and 11 European nations formed a new military alliance to stop soviet expansion

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

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

Legend:1. Concrete segment wall (front

barrier element)2. Control Area3. Light masts4. Trench to block the way for vehicles5. Concrete road

6. Watch tower7. Area patrolled by dogs8. Signal construction with trip wires9. Border signal fence10. Turnpike (bounds of protection

area)

The wall split the city into two sections separating families and friends. Anyone who attempted to cross its border was shot

• 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

• 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