5. Victory in Europe
June 6, 1944 – July 1945

15. Yalta Conference February 1945
United Nations
5 permanent members of the Security Council
Germany divided into 4 zones
USSR received land from Poland
Poland received land from Germany to compensate
USSR would declare war on Japan
USSR received Kuril Islands and southern part of Sakhalin Island (Japanese)

18. Potsdam Conference July 1945
War crime trials at Nuremberg
Demilitarize Germany
Reparations should leave Germany with enough resources to “subsist without external assistance”
Free elections in Poland
Stalin refused to allow eastern Europe to hold free elections
Called for Japanese surrender or face “prompt and utter destruction”

19. Holocaust Timeline Holocaust Survivor
The Holocaust
Holocaust Timeline Holocaust Survivor

21. Trials At Nuremberg
Nuremberg Timeline

22. Victory in the Pacific

23. On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that authorized US government to forcibly roundup 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry into 10 internment camps

33. WWII Toll