Ending the War And Sadness

Let’s look at what Europe looks like on D-Day

America Helps defend Europe In the West and East D-Day—June 6, 1944 Battle of the Bulge—1944-5 Soviet Capture of Berlin-- 1945 In the South Africa—1942 El Alamein—1942 Battle of Anzio (Italy)--1944

The War in Europe ends- 1945 February 1945: Yalta Conference Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet to devise the final defeat of Germany and a plan for the postwar world (splitting Germany, and defeating Japan) March 1945: Allied bombers continually strike German targets in Western Europe and the Soviet Union Late April 1945: Soviet troops take Berlin April 30, 1945: Hitler commits suicide rather than surrender May 8, 1945: V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

I’m on island hopping time

Japanese Advance—1941-1942 By 1942, the Japanese controlled Hong Kong, Singapore, Dutch East Indies, and Malaya April 1942: the Philippines were the next target May 6, 1942—Americans and Filipinos are forced to surrender Bataan Death March—76,000 POWs forced to march 60 miles in brutal conditions, resulting in the death of 20,000+ POWs, violating the Geneva Convention of 1929

Allied Victories in the Pacific

Geneva Convention Attempted to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners of war by established rules to be followed by all nations Give medical treatment to POWs, treat and care for sick and wounded, let the International Red Cross come in If you have dead/wounded soldiers, you ID them and communicate with the other side

War’s over. Now what? What do we do with Germany? Japan? What do we do with conquered territory in Europe? What do we do about international cooperation? We will look at the answers to these questions in our next unit.

Sadness: Internment Camps and the Holocaust

Pearl Harbor causes prejudice Prejudice and wartime fears adversely affected civil liberties of minorities U.S. government decided to intern Japanese citizens due to a false belief that Japanese Americans were aiding the enemy Internment- to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country Nisei = Japanese born in the US

Internment of Japanese Americans Affected Japanese American populations along the West Coast 1942: 110,000 Japanese Americans were moved to detention camps Most lost homes, businesses, and belongings 1944: Korematsu v. United States—relocation was not based on race, but on national security; Court upheld it was constitutional for the government to move them 1980s the US government issues a public apology and financial payment was made to survivors

Genocide Systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group

Hitler’s “final solution” aka the Holocaust Hitler wrote about his hatred of Jews in Mein Kampf; blamed them for problems in Germany When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, some Jews left but most countries would not accept refugees and limited immigration of Jews Hitler wanted to get rid of: Jews, Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, and “Undesirables” (homosexuals, mentally ill, political dissidents)

Holocaust Jews and “undesirables” were sent to either work camps or death camps Young and healthy went to work Babies, elderly, sick, and handicapped went straight to death camps  Camps had gas chamber to exterminate a lot at a time and ovens to burn the bodies Total killed: 11 million, of which 6 million were Jews

Nuremberg Trails Nazi leaders and others were convicted of war crimes The trials emphasized individual responsibility for actions during war, regardless of orders received. The trials led to increased demand for a Jewish homeland Although the legal justifications for the trials were controversial at the time, they are now regarded as a milestone toward an important precedent for dealing with later instances of genocide and other crimes against humanity

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