1. WORLD WAR II 1. THE LEGACY OF WWII US policy:
Interventionists = United Nations
Human cost
Holocaust
Nuremberg Trials—1946
Toyko Trials
The Cold War 1946 to 1989
WWII today

2. * ** Founders of the United Nations in 1945
Soviet Union
* **
U.S.A
China
*Great Britain **France
Founders of the United Nations in 1945
Permanent seats on the Security Council.
Replaced the League of Nations to promote world peace
Limited Democracy
Military Dictatorship
No Self Government
1 Party State
Democracy
Communism
Dictatorship
Monarchy
No Government

3. The Creation of the U. N.

4. HUMAN COST of
World War II

5. National debt $252 billion
COST OF WWII
50 to 60 million people die
US spent $300 billion
National debt $252 billion

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. WWII CASUALITIES Country Men in war Battle deaths Wounded
Civilians only.
Army and navy figures.
Figures cover July 7, 1937 to Sept. 2, 1945, and concern only Chinese regular troops. Do not include casualties suffered by guerrillas and local military corps.
Deaths from all causes.
Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany.
Against Soviet Russia; 169,822 against Nazi Germany.
National Defense Ctr., Canadian Forces Hq., Director of History.
Country
Men in war
Battle deaths
Wounded
Australia
1,000,000
26,976
180,864
Austria
800,000
280,000
350,117
Belgium
625,000
8,460
55,5131
Brazil2
40,334
943
4,222
Bulgaria
339,760
6,671
21,878
Canada
1,086,3437
42,0427
53,145
China3
17,250,521
1,324,516
1,762,006
Czechoslovakia —
6,6834
8,017
Denmark
4,339
Finland
500,000
79,047
50,000
France
201,568
400,000
Germany
20,000,000
3,250,0004
7,250,000

9. WWII CASUALITIES Country Men in war Battle deaths Wounded Greece —
17,024
47,290
Hungary
147,435
89,313
India
2,393,891
32,121
64,354
Italy
3,100,000
149,4964
66,716
Japan
9,700,000
1,270,000
140,000
Netherlands
280,000
6,500
2,860
New Zealand
194,000
11,6254
17,000
Norway
75,000
2,000
Poland
664,000
530,000
Romania
650,0005
350,0006
South Africa
410,056
2,473
U.S.S.R.
20,000,000
6,115,0004
14,012,000
United Kingdom
5,896,000
357,1164
369,267
United States
16,112,566
291,557
670,846
Yugoslavia
3,741,000
305,000
425,000
Civilians only.
Army and navy figures.
Figures cover July 7, 1937 to Sept. 2, 1945, and concern only Chinese regular troops. Do not include casualties suffered by guerrillas and local military corps.
Deaths from all causes.
Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany.
Against Soviet Russia; 169,822 against Nazi Germany.
National Defense Ctr., Canadian Forces Hq., Director of History.

10. WW II Casualties Civilians only. Army and navy figures.
Country
Men in war
Battle deaths
Wounded
Australia
1,000,000
26,976
180,864
Austria
800,000
280,000
350,117
Belgium
625,000
8,460
55,5131
Brazil2
40,334
943
4,222
Bulgaria
339,760
6,671
21,878
Canada
1,086,3437
42,0427
53,145
China3
17,250,521
1,324,516
1,762,006
Czechoslovakia —
6,6834
8,017
Denmark
4,339
Finland
500,000
79,047
50,000
France
201,568
400,000
Germany
20,000,000
3,250,0004
7,250,000
Greece
17,024
47,290
Hungary
147,435
89,313
India
2,393,891
32,121
64,354
Italy
3,100,000
149,4964
66,716
Japan
9,700,000
1,270,000
140,000
Netherlands
6,500
2,860
New Zealand
194,000
11,6254
17,000
Norway
75,000
2,000
Poland
664,000
530,000
Romania
650,0005
350,0006
South Africa
410,056
2,473
U.S.S.R.
6,115,0004
14,012,000
United Kingdom
5,896,000
357,1164
369,267
United States
16,112,566
291,557
670,846
Yugoslavia
3,741,000
305,000
425,000
WW II Casualties
Civilians only.
Army and navy figures.
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.
Deaths from all causes.
Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany.
Against Soviet Russia; 169,822 against Nazi Germany.
National Defense Ctr., Canadian Forces Hq., Director of History.

11. HUMAN DISLOATIONS
                                                                                         
                                     

12. THE HOLOCAUST
Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire
The genocide of European Jews and other “undesirables” by the Nazis during World War II
Hitler killed over 12 million “undesirables” which 6 million were Jews in his concentration camps

13. THE HOLOCAUST
My first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews.
"All the human culture, all the results of art, science, and technology that we see before us today, are almost exclusively the creative product of the Aryan..."
"The mightiest counterpart to the Aryan is represented by the Jew."
"And so I believe to-day that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the handiwork of the Lord."

14. THE HOLOCAUST
The final solution itself ... to put it bluntly, the extermination of the Jews, was not provided for by Reich Law.
It was a Führer's Order, a so-called Führer's Order. Adolf Eichmann,

15. German Economic Depression Aryan Virtues----Nuremberg Laws
A Common Enemy
Hitler blames Jews for problems of Germany
Loss of WWI
German Economic Depression
Jews identified as a “race” –not a religion
A New Education Begins
Save Germany from impurities
Aryan Virtues----Nuremberg Laws
nuremberg

16. Three Phases of Hatred Phase 1 1933-1939 Phase 2 (1939-1945)
A Common Enemy : Re-Education
Citizenship Rights?
German Jews face deportation
Violence Escalates----Kristalnacht
Phase 2 ( )
World War II Declared (England and France)
Ghettos and Forced Labor Camps
Germans begin mass executions of European Jews and Eastern Europeans.
Einzsengruben death squads
Phase 3: The Final Solution
Move to concentration camps
Mass extermination with gas chambers

17. Auschwitz was the main death camp
Death Camps
Auschwitz was the main death camp

18. HOLOCAUST
Holocaust
Genocide: Policy of exterminating a race of people…..Nazi policy from 1941 to 1945.

19. Nazi leaders being tried for war crimes and crimes against civilians: Established the principle: That individuals are responsible for the actions regardless if they are carrying out orders…….

20. Crimes against peace, humanity—war crimes
trial
Crimes against peace, humanity—war crimes
Important principle established:
Individuals responsible for their actions

21. trial
Several Nazi leaders would be found guilty for crimes against humanity. Punishments ranged from prison sentences up to life and execution by hanging…...

22. Japanese War Crimes Trials Bio-Chemical Experiments on humans!
General Hideki Tojo
Bio-Chemical Experiments on humans!

24. DECISIONS AT YALTA CONFERENCE
Yalta Conference shaped the post WWII world. The lasting effect was: “You cannot trust the words of a dictator”.
KEY DECISIONS
Created a United Nations
Germany and Berlin divided into 4 zones controlled by the Allies
Eastern European countries allowed “free elections”
Stalin signed agreements but Eastern Europe would stay under Soviet control.

25. CONFLICTING INTERESTS
coldwar
Soviet Goals
Wanted to rebuild Europe in ways that would help the Soviet Union recover from the huge losses it suffered during the war
Wanted to establish Soviet satellite nations, countries subject to Soviet domination and sympathetic to Soviet goals
Wanted to promote the spread of communism throughout the world
American Goals
Wanted conquered European nations to experience the democracy and economic opportunity that the United States had fought for during the war
Wanted to develop strong capitalist economies, which would provide good markets for American products vs

26. THE COLD WAR vs Uneasy peace between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Competition for world dominance and global power.
Fought on political and economic fronts rather than on military battlefields Even though the threat of war was always present.
Defined America’s foreign policy from 1946 to 1989.
It affected domestic politics and how Americans viewed the world and themselves.
Constant state of military preparedness and arms race
Propaganda war----Democracy vs Communism
US policy: Support nations threatened by Communism

27. NATO ALLIANCE AND WARSAW PACT
Communistic Warsaw Pact
Communistic Warsaw Pact

28. The Bi-Polarization of Europe: The Beginning of the Cold War
map/cold war
1950’s
Democracy vs. Communism
Bi-Polarization of the World
Soviet Union/China and Allies……..
US, Allied Nations and Allied colonies.

29. The world would now live with the threat of nuclear war.
NUCLEAR AGE
The world would now live with the threat of nuclear war.
Arms race between Soviet Union and U.S. who could build the most nuclear weapons.
U.S. would use nuclear weapons as a “deterrent”
Peace through strength……
“nuclear diplomacy”
atomic bomb

30. CONTAINMENT POLICY 1950’s Soviet Union/China and Allies……..
map/cold war
1950’s
Containment: Stop the expansion of Communism in Asia and Europe
Soviet Union/China and Allies……..
US, Allied Nations and Allied colonies.

31. Communist Expansion A Chronology of Events
Soviet Union 1918
Berlin Blockade X
Eastern Europe 1946
China 1949 X
Korean War 1950 to 1953
CONTAINMENT
Marshall Plan Berlin Airlift NATO Korean War
Communist Expansion A Chronology of Events 1 1

32. TheWorld
We Live in Today
Was Formed
by the Events of
World War II

33. 7 Future American Presidents Lives Were Formed by Their Service in World War II

34. The Race for Space

35. Early Computer Technology Came Out of WW II
Colossus, 1941
Mark I, 1944
Admiral Grace Hooper, COBOL language

36. The De-Colonization of European Empires

37. The Emergence of Third World Nationalist Movements