1.5 — The postwar world and Cold War origins

1.5 — The postwar world and Cold War origins

  • Understand how WWII ended and what the postwar conferences (Yalta, Potsdam) tried to settle.

  • Know what the Cold War was — a different kind of conflict from either of the world wars.

  • Understand the key early Cold War events: iron curtain, Berlin crises, containment, NATO, Warsaw Pact.

  • See how ideology (capitalism vs communism) structured the conflict. From WWII to Cold War. At the end o