Chapter 24 Section 5

Big 3

Churchill, Stalin, and

Soviet Union

communitsts; Stalin still rulese using fear and intimidation "Bad"

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

condemns slavery and torture

The United States

democracy; freedom for citizens "Good"

japan

had a military as self defense

americas philosophy

isolationists; didnt work out because everyone else was bringing them into it (world police)

when was Israel created

1948; the land was taken from Pallestine

Yalta Conference

Big 3 agreed that Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria would hold free elections

Superpowers

Soviet Union dominated postwar world

General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

a treaty designed to expand world trade by reducing tariffs

Nuremberg Trials (source of the "bad" germans)

allies prosecuted Nazi's for war crime (Germany and Japan)

Geneva Convention

an international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers