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Allies Becoming Enemies
Creation of the United Nations and the Geneva Conventions
What made 1945 an especially good time to found the United Nations?
A war had just ended so they needed a way to prevent wars in the future.
Many nations joined together after the war to adopt treaties on civilians, POWs, and those injured
Called the Geneva Convention
Treaties adopted in 1949
Added to in later years
Still in use today
UN formed with a total of 50 Nations
This union is intended to protect the members from aggression.
An eleven member part called the security council had the power to investigate and settle disputes.
5 permannt members who could veto any desicion
France
Britian
The United States
Soviet Union
China
How were the occupation forces for Germany chosen?
by the "Big Three" Allied powers (US, UK, USSR) at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences in 1945
The United States was upset that Joseph Stalin, the Soviet leader, had signed a nonaggression pact with Germany in 1939. Later, Stalin blamed the Allies for not invading German-occupied Europe earlier than 1944. Driven by these and other disagreements, the two allies began to pursue opposing goals
There, they agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation controlled by the Allied military forces. Germany would also have to pay the Soviet Union to compensate for its loss of life and property during the war
Why did the united states and the soviet union split after the war?
The soviet union wanted to spread communism, and had ideological difrences from the U.S