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Europe & Japan in Ruins
A. Peace ConferencesB. Europe in RuinsC. Japan in RuinsD. Costs of the War
A. Peace Conferences• Meetings that occurred
during the war to plan war strategies and for the peace that would follow
• Yalta – Feb 1945 Stalin, Roosevelt, & Churchill met to discuss how to restructure Europe after the war
• Potsdam – July 1945 Stalin, Truman, & Attlee met to discuss the occupation of Germany and the surrender of Japan
B. Europe in Ruins• Many cities laid in ruins because of the
bombing
• Large numbers of displaced people wandered the continent
• People had no homes b/c of the concentration camps, POWs, or were in the wrong countries when the borders changed
• Nuremburg Trials – Nazi war criminals put on trial because of the Holocaust
C. Japan in Ruins• United States will occupy Japan until 1952 to
oversee the rebuilding of the country• War criminals put on trial – 7 (including Hideki
Tojo) were sentenced to death• Major change in Japan was the development of a
constitutional monarchy • Japan no longer allowed to keep a military
D. Costs of the War
• Over 60 million people died in World War II• 2/3 were civilians• Soviet Union suffered more than other nations
Country Direct Costs of the War
Military Killed/MIA
Civilians Killed
United States $288 Billion 292,131 XX
Great Britain $117 Billion 271,311 60,595
France $111.3 Billion 205,707 173,260
USSR $93 Billion 13,600,000 7,720,000
Germany $212.3 Billion 3,300,000 2,893,000
Japan $41.3 Billion 1,140,429 953,000