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Postwar Reconstruction Spread of Democracy –Contested by communism –NATO Role of the United Nations Spread of Democracy –Contested by communism –NATO Role of the United NationsTRANSCRIPT
Postwar Reconstruction• Recovery after World War II
–Western Europe• West Germany—Konrad Adenauer• France—Charles de Gaulle• Britain
–Japan
Postwar Reconstruction• Stabilization and Growth in Western
Europe–Stabilization
• Marshall Plan–Growth
• European Common Market–Welfare States and Stagnation
• Britain• France
Postwar Reconstruction• Spread of Democracy
–Contested by communism–NATO
• Role of the United Nations
Development of the Cold War
• Differences Between Democracy and Communism–Different worldviews–Economic systems–Political systems–Religions
Development of the Cold War
• Fall of China to Communism–China under Mao
• Relationship with Soviet Union• Great Leap Forward• Cultural Revolution
–China after Mao• Tiananmen Square
Development of the Cold War
• Cold War Crises–Berlin Blockade–Korean War–Cuban Missile Crisis–Vietnam War
• French defeated at Dien Bien Phu• United States involvement
Development of the Cold War
• Rivalry for Technological Supremacy–Military–Nuclear–Space
Transition in the Third World and Middle East
• Indian Nationalism–Mohandas Gandhi– Independence granted by Britain in
1947–Hostility and clashes persist
Transition in the Third World and Middle East
• Rise of Nationalist Movements–Africa
• Ghana first to achieve independence• Some countries more successful than
others–Southeast Asia
Transition in the Third World and Middle East
• Rebirth of Israel–Creation of Israel as a Modern State
• Proclaimed independence in 1948–Arab Response
• Multiple wars
Collapse of the Soviet Union• Soviet Aggression
–The 1970s• Czechoslovakia• Vietnam
–The 1980s• Afghanistan
Collapse of the Soviet Union• Strong Leadership in the West
–Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain–Ronald Reagan in the United States–Lech Wałęsa in Poland
Collapse of the Soviet Union• Fall of the Soviet Union and Division
along National Lines–Collapse of the Soviet System
• Mikhail Gorbachev–Division into Many States
Collapse of the Soviet Union• New Opportunities for Christians
–Freedom to Worship–Freedom to Evangelize–Missionary Outreach