Part+1+-+Concluding+the+War

Click here for a slideshare on the end of World War II media type="custom" key="22946334"

1. How is the Yalta Conference a foreshadowing of the upcoming conflict between the Soviets and the other Allies? 2. What does the term "unconditional surrender" mean? 3. What are the "Four D's" that will be the Allies' focus after the war? 4. Look at the casualties during World War II? What about this information supports the description of World War II as being a "total war"? 5. What happens to the territories that the Soviets had liberated? Which countries will be included in the "Eastern Bloc?" What kind of government will the Soviets set up in each Eastern Bloc country? 6. What organization do the allies form to create an alliance against the rising Eastern Bloc? What group does the Soviet Union form in response? 7. When do the USSR successfully test their first atom bomb? 8. What nation developed the Marshall Plan? Which nations were recipients of the Marshall Plan? What kind of assistance did it offer and was it effective? Which nations turned this plan down?