2. Aftermath of WWII V-J Day The Numbers Diplomacy

3. V-J Day (September 2, 1945)

4. Japanese POWs, Guam

5. V-J Day in Times Square, NYC

6. WW II Casualties: Europe Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

7. WW II Casualties: Asia Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

8. WW II Casualties Country Men in war Battle deaths Wounded Australia1,000,00026,976180,864 Austria800,000280,000350,117 Belgium625,0008,460 55,513 1 Brazil 2 40,3349434,222 Bulgaria339,7606,67121,878 Canada 1,086,343 7 42,042 7 53,145 China 3 17,250,5211,324,5161,762,006 Czechoslovakia— 6,683 4 8,017 Denmark—4,339— Finland500,00079,04750,000 France—201,568400,000 Germany20,000,000 3,250,000 4 7,250,000 Greece—17,02447,290 Hungary—147,43589,313 India2,393,89132,12164,354 Italy3,100,000 149,496 4 66,716 Japan9,700,0001,270,000140,000 Netherlands280,0006,5002,860 New Zealand 194,000 11,625 4 17,000 Norway75,0002,000— Poland—664,000530,000 Romania 650,000 5 350,000 6 — South Africa 410,0562,473— U.S.S.R.— 6,115,000 4 14,012,000 United Kingdom 5,896,000 357,116 4 369,267 United States 16,112,566291,557670,846 Yugoslavia3,741,000305,000425,000 1.Civilians only. 2.Army and navy figures. 3.Figures cover period July 7, 1937 to Sept. 2, 1945, and concern only Chinese regular troops. They do not include casualties suffered by guerrillas and local military corps. 4.Deaths from all cses. 5.Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany. 6.Against Soviet Russia; 169,822 against Nazi Germany. 7.National Defense Ctr., Canadian Forces Hq., Director of History.

9. Massive Human Dislocations

10. The Casablanca Conference, 1943 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill Casablanca, Morocco from January 14–24, 1943. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin received an invitation, he was unable to attend because the Red Army was engaged in a major offensive against the German army at the time. Finalization of Allied strategic plans against the Axis powers in 1943, and the promulgation of the policy of “unconditional surrender.”

11. Yalta: February, 1945 y FDR wants quick Soviet entry into Pacific war. y FDR & Churchill concede Stalin needs buffer, FDR & Stalin want spheres of influence and a weak Germany. y Churchill wants strong Germany as buffer against Stalin. y FDR argues for a ‘United Nations’.

12. The Bi-Polarization of Europe: The Beginning of the Cold War

13. The Division of Germany: 1945 - 1990

14. The Nuremberg War Trials: Crimes Against Humanity

15. The Creation of the U. N.

16. The Formation of the United Nations 1945 On January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace. The Senate approved the UN Charter on July 28, 1945, by a vote of 89 to 2. The United Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945, after 29 nations had ratified the Charter.

17. Nuremburg Trials Purpose: bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany 1945 and 1949. The defendants indicted –crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. Hitler committed suicide and was never brought to trial. Milestone toward the establishment of a permanent international court Important precedent for dealing with later instances of genocide and other crimes against humanity.

18. The U.S. & the U.S.S.R. Emerged as the Two Superpowers of the later 20 c