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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