1. Describe the significance of major battles, events, and consequences of World War II campaigns, including North Africa, Midway, Normandy, Okinawa, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, and Yalta and Potsdam Conferences.

2. Chapter 24, 25 and 26

3.  Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin  Plan a postwar world  Poland: Soviets set up government, made up of prewar Polish leaders and would hold free elections.  Declaration of Liberated Europe: get to choose the form of government which they want  Dividing Germany: 4 zones divided between, Great Britain, US, Soviet Union and France, Germany pay reparations  Caused parts of the Cold War

5.  Truman, Stalin  Truman wants German industry to recover  Stalin disagrees  Truman compromises  German industrial equipment goes to Soviet Germany, while food shipments go to the other Allies.  New German-Polish border  Truman threatens Stalin with the atomic bomb if Stalin does not agree  Increased Cold War tensions between US and USSR

7.  Hitler’s attempt to rid the world of the Jewish population  Ultimately killed about 6 million Jews  Final Solution: Wannsee Conference  Extermination camp: killing centers attached to concentration camps; example: Auschwitz  Concentration camp: detention/work centers for healthy Jews; example: Buchenwald

8.  Tried and decided the punishment of people who committed war crimes from Europe and Japan

9.  League of Nations changed to the United Nations.  Goals: preserve peace, prevent another world war  Made up of  General Assembly every nation would have one vote Powers: vote on resolutions, choose the non-permanent members of the Security Council, vote on UN budget  Security Council Britain, France, US, USSR and China; permanent members who have veto power International peace and security, investigate international problems and propose settlements, take military action to preserve peace

11.  Universally protects the rights of all humans in the world  Adopted December 10, 1948  30 articles

12.  Genocide: deliberate and systematic destruction of a whole group of people  Defines genocide, prevention of genocide and punishment for committing genocide  December 8, 1948