Europe After WWII Notes

The End of WWII

Divided Europe, the two sides hate each other but they never want another war

It was a clash of ideas : Communism and Capitalism

What were Allies doing?

Liberating concentration camps: many people did not want to be resettled because people hated them back home

- many people ran to Palestine and eventually made Israel (Est. in 1948, beginning of Israeli-Palestinian conflict)

Potsdam Conference

- Churchill is voted out in the middle of it, Britain decides to nationalize health care and other welfare things

- Most western governments increase their welfare state (believe that economic problems allowed Hitler to gain power)

Nuremburg Trials

Germany was prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity and War of Aggression

Europe After WWII