European History

AP Euro Notes Sec 27-2 pp.868-872 AND 876- 888 Nalani Story THE AFTERMATH OF THE WAR: EMERGENCE OF THE COLD WAR Tehran Conference (1943) Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill, the leaders of the Big Three of the Grand Alliance, met at Tehran, Iran in November of 1943 primary purpose was to determine the way the final assault on Germany would be conducted Roosevelt and Stalin overruled Churchill and decided that the British and Americans would invade the continent through France in the Spring of 1944 not through the Balkans as Churchill wanted decision meant that Eastern Europe would be liberated by the Russians agreed to link up with the Soviets in Germany and partition Germany upon its defeat Yalta Conference (1945)

AP Euro Notes Sec 26-2 pp. 807-816 Nalani Story The Democratic States Woodrow Wilson proclaimed that WWI=been fought to make world safe for democracy 1919, there seemed to be some justification for this claim 4 major Euro states & a host of minor ones had functioning political democracies In a # of nations, universal male suffrage=replaced by universal suffrage as male politicians rewarded women for their contributions to WWI by granting the right to vote (except in Italy, France, & Spain) Women also began to enter political life as deputies to parliamentary bodies. In new German repub almost 10% of deputies elected to Reichstag in 1919=women # dropped to 6% by 1926 Great Britain After WWI GB went through a period of painful readjustment and serious economic difficulties