Post World War II
Match the World War II death tolls on the right with the corresponding country on the left.
A. 7,293,00
B. 2,680,000
C. 418,500
D. 23,100,000
1. Japan
2. United States
3. Soviet Union
4. Germany
Two “winners”
418,500 deaths
0.32% of the population
23,100,000 deaths
10.5% of the population
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
Occupying country Vision ResultSoviet Union
France
Great Britain
United States
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
Random picture of Chuck Norris: No purpose
Douglas MacArthur
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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