Post World War II

Germany?

“We have got to treat them [Germans] in such a manner so they can’t just go on

reproducing people who want to continue the way they have in the past.”

Post-war Germany

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United States

Great Britain

France

Soviet Union

ResultVisionOccupying country

Opposed German

reunification

Potential trading center

Harsh discipline

imposed—impoverished

West Germany becomes more

American

Nuremberg Trials

Nuremberg Trials

21 Nazi leaders tried on four charges

11 sentenced to death; 7 received jail sentences; 3 acquitted

Nuremberg Principle established

Hiroshima

Japan?

Nagasaki

End Japanese militarism: 5 million troops demobilized

Start a democratic government: 1947—new constitution

Japanese War Crimes

20 leaders tried

7 sentenced to death (Hideki Tojo)

United Nations established

Permanent members of the Security Council: US, Soviet

Union, Great Britain, France, and China—veto power

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