An overview, usuing mainly images, of who the alliance systems developed and changed over ww2. It also outlines some key issues that contributed to the start of the Cold War.

1. World War To Cold War International Relations 1939  1945

2. Who Fought Whom? GERMANY INVADES POLAND 1939 NAZI-SOVIET PACT 1939 So, who was fighting whom at this point? TRIPARTITE PACT 1940

3. Where Was the USA? Isolationism key foreign policy of 1930s Lend Lease Programme established March 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor December 1941 brought USA into World War II Lasted throughout war – and had to be repaid afterwards Totalled $50.1 (= $700bn today) An example of the economic wealth and power of the USA

4. Who Fought Whom? (2) Pearl Harbor – December 1941 So, who are the Axis Powers and who are the Allies now? Operation Barbarossa June 1941

5. World War II Changed Europe The ‘Grand Alliance’ based solely on defeating Hitler Previously suspicions and mistrust since at least 1917 Would the Alliance hold?

6. 1945: State of the Nations 1 London Stalingrad Washington DC Berlin Hiroshima

7. 1945: State of the Nations 2 USA physically untouched by World War 2 Phenomenal economic growth due to war GNP rose 60% Industry expanded 40% Farmers’ incomes quadrupled Weekly wages of industrial workers rose 70%

8. Balance Of Power USSR occupying Eastern Europe and areas of Asia and Middle East Britain and France still have empires – just USA dominants world economically USA also has atomic monopoly Germany and Japan destroyed Britain, France and Europe economically very weak

9. Prospects for Peace? What problems can you foresee developing after World War Two, based on what you have already covered?