Bell Ringer – March 19 & 20Bell Ringer – March 19 & 20

What was the name for the invasion of Normandy?

Which president decided to drop the Atomic Bombs on Japan?

What were the major reasons he made the decision?

Post WWIIPost WWIIRecovery

Today’s ObjectivesToday’s Objectives

Identify the major outcomes of World War II.Explain the purpose of the Geneva

Convention.Describe the efforts to reconstruct Germany.Describe the efforts to reconstruct Japan.Explain the purpose of Yalta Conference and

identify the main players.Evaluate how the losers of WWII were

treated compared to losers of WWI.

Death Toll of the World WarsDeath Toll of the World Wars

Only a few great cities in Europe remained undamaged by the war.

Most of Europe lay in ruins.

Outcomes of WWIIOutcomes of WWII

1. European powers' lost their empires.

Where?

2. Two major WORLD powers were established: The United States & the U.S.S.R.

Political Economic

U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.

3. War Crimes Trials Held in Nuremburg, Germany in 1945-1946 22 Nazi leaders were put on trial. Accused of violating the laws of war and

committing "crimes against humanity" (murder of 11 million people)

Outcomes of WWIIOutcomes of WWII

Goring Goring Before & AfterBefore & After

Goring Goring Before & AfterBefore & After

4. Division of Europe--Iron CurtainRepresents Europe's division between a mostly

democratic Western Europe & communist Eastern Europe.

Iron curtain speech, given by Winston Churchill, on March 5, 1946.

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent"

Outcomes of WWIIOutcomes of WWII

The Iron Curtain serves to keep people The Iron Curtain serves to keep people in …. and information out.in …. and information out.

5. Establishment of the United Nations (UN)

An international organization that was intended to protect the members against aggression.

50 nations that signed the UN charter pledged "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war."

Outcomes of WWIIOutcomes of WWII

The UN is based in New York City

6. The Marshall PlanJune 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George

Marshall proposed that America give aid to any European country that needed it.

This became known as the Marshall Plan.Marshall Plan: $13 billion in aid given to

Europe.Aid included: food, machines, and rebuilding

materials.

Outcomes of WWIIOutcomes of WWII

7. Formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) & Warsaw Pact

Rival alliances developed post WWII.NATO was developed to protect any nation

who was attacked.Soviet Union viewed NATO as a threat and

developed an alliance known as the Warsaw Pact.

Outcomes of WWIIOutcomes of WWII

The Geneva Convention

Purpose: To ensure the humane treatment of prisoners of war by establishing rules to be followed by all nations.

During WWII: Prisoners in Europe were treated OK (in general). Prisoners in Japan were treated with savagery.

VS.

1. Democratic government installed in West Germany & West Berlin

2. Germany & Berlin divided among the four Allied Powers

Efforts to Reconstruct GermanyEfforts to Reconstruct Germany

Post-War West Germany

West Germany quickly emerged as an economic power in post-war Europe Cars Steel Coal

1. U.S. occupied Japan during Truman administration

2. Democracy & economic development

3. Eliminated Japan’s offensive military capabilities

• U.S. guaranteed Japan's security

Efforts to Reconstruct JapanEfforts to Reconstruct Japan

General Douglas General Douglas MacArthurMacArthur

Post-War Japan

Japan emerged as the dominant economy in Asia

By the 1970s, Japan was a world leader in autos and high tech fields

Today, Japan and Germany are two of the strongest democracies in the world

—thanks in large part to America forcing it

upon them after WWII.

Beginning of the Cold War

Yalta Conference was a meeting to discuss post-war reconstruction Churchill, Roosevelt

& Stalin February 1945

Soviet Soviet control of control of Eastern Eastern

Europe!@#%!Europe!@#%! Not on my

watch!

20th-Century History: 1945-1989: The Cold WarChapter 1: The Cold War: World War II Ends and

the Allied Powers' Friendship Crumbles (1945) 

Reflection

In your journal, answer:Which do you think is the better way to treat

a losing country, the way the losers were treated after WWI or the way they were treated after WWII? Provide details to explain why you think so.

Homework

Complete the Study Guide and study it.Bring any questions you have to next class.Test is next class!