What were the challenges confronting the Allied Powers at the end of World War II and how did differing political and economic goals for the post-war world lead to the Cold War? Must use at least 3 words from Vocabs: Nazism anti-Semitism St. Louis incident Nuremberg Laws Kristallnacht “Final Solution” Auschwitz ENIGMA ENIAC J. Robert Oppenheimer Manhattan Project Hiroshima Nagasaki Blood Plasma Penicillin Radar sonar War Refugee Board United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights war crimes Nuremberg Trials Yalta Potsdam

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What were the challenges confronting the Allied Powers at the end of World War II and how did differing political and economic goals for the post-war world lead to the Cold War?

Must use at least 3 words from Vocabs:

Nazism
anti-Semitism
St. Louis incident
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
“Final Solution”
Auschwitz
ENIGMA
ENIAC
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Blood Plasma
Penicillin
Radar
sonar
War Refugee Board
United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
war crimes
Nuremberg Trials
Yalta
Potsdam

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  • Challenges to the Allied Powers came from the Holocaust, dealing with the implicaitons of new technologies, and conflicts between the Allies themselves
  • Challenge of how to deal with the Holocaust and holding people responsible for it
    • Problems that caused the Holocaust existed around the world and in the U.S. and happened so slowly that other nations didn’t know its full extent
      • Nazism, anti-Semitism, St. Louis incident, death camps, Auschwitz
    • Problem of how to deal with the chaos of the Holocaust and prevent another and how to prosecute those responsible
      • War Refugee Board, Geneva Convention, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, war crimes, Nuremberg Trials
  • There were benefits and drawbacks of WWII technology but it would forever change the world
    • Early computers, medical technology, and new flight technologies were developed to aid in WWII
      •  ENIGMA machine, Penicillin, ME-262 (jet powered airplane), radar, sonar
    • Atomic power was investigated and harnessed for a bomb which led to numerous post war uses and the Cold War conflicts/debates
      • J. Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, Nagasaki
  • What to do with the territories occupied by the Allies during the war, especially the issues of Free Elections and the Soviet Union’s concerns about attacks from the West
    • Disputes in WWII Conferences
      • Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, Berlin, Cold War,
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