The Second World War and its Aftermaths

Overview

Create analytical notes on three of the following documents using these questions (30 pts)

1. (1pt)Title of Document -
2. (1pt)Who was the author (name/ occupation or their role in the related event) -
3. 4pts)Time period (contextualize the document, what was going on at the time) -
4. (4pts)Memorable quotes and why did they stand out, what do they provide evidence of or enlighten you about

Pick from the following documents:

• Hermann Graebe, Slaughter of Jews in Ukraine
• Gerald Frank, The Tragedy of the DPS (Displaced Persons)
• Nelson Mandela, Defense at Trial
• Edward McWhinney, Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples: https://legal.un.org/avl/pdf/ha/dicc/dicc_e.pdfLinks to an external site.

Answer each of the following questions (10 pts each).

1. Can you give some examples of the beginning of the Allied “positions of strength” policy, that Nikita Khrushchev describes in his Report to the Twentieth Party Congress, in Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech? Can you provide examples of this policy in early Cold War events as described in the textbook and lecture?
2. Use the following terms to describe WWII in terms of ideology, logistics of who won / lost, and its impacts on European people and postwar society:
   1. Appeasement
   2. Operation Barbarossa
   3. The Final Solution
3. Describe the reasons for the postwar increase of the European Welfare states in the West.