ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
Modern World History Videos 86 videos
Today we're tackling unions, a.k.a. the people who brought you weekends, a.k.a. the greatest people who have ever existed. We'd send them a thank y...
Modern World History 10.2: Postwar Territorial Changes 1 Views
Share It!
Description:
What was Stalin up to post-Yalta Conference? Hit play to find out.
Transcript
- 00:00
smell you'd think that in the wake of World War two
- 00:05
all of the countries that had been eaten up by Germany Italy in Japan would get [Hitler at a country buffet]
- 00:10
their old borders back but no instead with the defeat of the Axis powers
- 00:16
Uncle Joe and his very large mustache stepped in in an attempt to make the
- 00:20
world look a little more Soviet okay a lot more Soviet when the Russians [Russian Soviets]
Full Transcript
- 00:25
marched East from their homeland in hot pursuit of the Nazi army that had tried [Nazis marching across European map]
- 00:30
and failed to take them over well they had to cover a lot of ground and once
- 00:34
they had made it as far west as Berlin they were loved to just turn around and
- 00:38
head back to Moscow they figured well hey just keep Poland and they'd had half [Nazi's taking pictures in different cities]
- 00:44
of it to themselves for a while there anyway but also they took over Hungary [world map]
- 00:48
Romania and eastern Germany furthermore when the Allies sliced and diced Germany
- 00:53
into for occupation zones the Soviets got the biggest chunk of territory
- 00:57
well that chunk of territory happened to surround Berlin which was also divvied
- 01:02
up in two he got it for occupation zones no way that was gonna end up being a
- 01:08
problem right clearly the Soviets did very very well for themselves in the [European map]
- 01:12
aftermath of oh wait there's more at the Yalta Conference the US and Great [Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt in conference]
- 01:17
Britain gave the Soviets that go ahead on being part of the new Polish
- 01:21
government that's right we were totally down with letting the commies insert
- 01:25
soldiers and government agents into a country that had already had a pretty
- 01:29
rough going for over a decade the Allies also redrew Poland's boundaries so that
- 01:35
the poles who were pretty much standing in for the Soviets at this point got a [European map]
- 01:38
great big piece of Germany millions of Germans were consequently made refugees [Germans moving house]
- 01:43
but nobody cared about that they were all Nazis anyway right let's just shoot
- 01:47
him oh also in the meantime the Soviets were creeping into power in the Baltic
- 01:51
States even though Uncle Joe swore on his mother's Bible that they would never
- 01:55
do such a naughty and undemocratic thing so yeah the Soviets cleaned up in Europe [Stalin overlooking city]
- 02:00
and finished the war with oh wait what there's more Oh Uncle Joe you sly devil [Stalin at country buffet]
- 02:05
over on the other side of the world Stalin and his Soviet forces were making [Asian map]
- 02:10
their on Manchuria Oh and Korea to see when
- 02:15
the Russians took over Manchuria from Japan in 1945 they kept right on going [Stalin riding a tank]
- 02:19
all the way to the 38th parallel that thing that's the 38 the other allied
- 02:24
powers were perfectly cool with this by the way these events would have major [Truman and Churchill relaxing on the beach]
- 02:29
repercussions for Korea to East Asia region and the world as a whole both in [old war photographs]
- 02:33
the short and long term however in 1945 what it meant was that Koreans north of
- 02:38
the 38th parallel became communist while Koreans south of the line got to enjoy [Koreans meeting along the dividing line]
- 02:43
democracy look at Korea at night today for a picture of how that looks yeah not
- 02:50
a lot of smog in North Korea there okay Stalin buddy are you finally finished
- 02:54
trying to take over the world no you got your eyes on Cuba huh well we can't
- 02:59
blame you they do have great cigars and sandwiches
Related Videos
GED Social Studies 1.1 Civics and Government
When you're about to marry the love of your life, not many things could stop you. However, finding out that your future hubby is keeping his crazy...
Here at Shmoop, we work for kids, not just the bottom line. Founded by David Siminoff and his wife Ellen Siminoff, Shmoop was originally conceived...
ACT Math: Elementary Algebra Drill 4, Problem 5. What is the solution to the problem shown?