V' Post WW2: Peace

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V. Post WW2 Peace War Trials

• Yalta-
• Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt meet at the
  Soviet city of Yalta
• Agreed to create the United Nations
  (international peace keeping body)
• Stalin promised to enter the war against Japan
  after the defeat of Germany

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V. Post WW2 Peace War Trials

• B. Potsdam (Germany)-Truman, Churchill, Stalin
  agreed on the following
• 1. Germany divided into 4 zones
• U.S
• Great Britain
• France
• Soviet Union

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V. Post WW2 Peace War Trials

• B. Potsdam (Germany)-Truman, Churchill, Stalin
  agreed on the following
• 2. Berlin, Germany divided into West and Eastern
  zones
• West-U.S., G.B., France
• East-Soviet Union

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V. Post WW2 Peace War Trials

• B. Potsdam (Germany)-Truman, Churchill, Stalin
  agreed on the following
• 3. Punish war criminals seriously (Nuremberg
  Trials-p. 593)
• First time in history a nations leaders were
  held legally responsible for their actions (12
  out of 22 convicted are sentenced to death)

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V. Post WW2 Peace War Trials

• C. Japan is occupied by U.S. forces
• Under the command of Douglas Macarthur for six
  years
• Japanese leaders sentenced to prison or death
• Macarthur introduced free-market principles and
  wrote a constitution
• Today, Japans constitution is called the
  Macarthur Constitution

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VI. Total Casualties of WW2

• A. Combat Deaths by country
• 7.5 million Soviet troops
• 3.5 million Germans
• 2 Million Chinese
• 1.25 million Japanese
• 400,000 Americans.
• 400,000 Each (Great Britain, France, Italy)

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VI. Total Casualties of WW2

• B. Other Civilian deaths
• At least 19 million Soviet civilians
• 10 million Chinese
• 6 million European Jews (11 million total in the
  Holocaust)
• 330,000 Japanese (Atomic Bombs)
• Poland (7 million Dead, 18 of its population).

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VI. Total Casualties of WW2

• Total destruction in dollars 4 trillion