Issues of Racism in the War American internment camps for Japanese- Americans President Truman is the first to desegregate the military All blood runs red These black soldiers, who served in Europe where they were welcomed as if they were white, are the ones who return to the states after the war – wondering why they are treated so badly at home. They are the founders of the civil rights mov’t

Tuskegee Airman Never lost a man!

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

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

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, ,222 Bulgaria339,7606,67121,878 Canada 1,086, , ,145 China 3 17,250,5211,324,5161,762,006 Czechoslovakia— 6, ,017 Denmark—4,339— Finland500,00079,04750,000 France—201,568400,000 Germany20,000,000 3,250, ,250,000 Greece—17,02447,290 Hungary—147,43589,313 India2,393,89132,12164,354 Italy3,100, , ,716 Japan9,700,0001,270,000140,000 Netherlands280,0006,5002,860 New Zealand 194,000 11, ,000 Norway75,0002,000— Poland—664,000530,000 Romania 650, ,000 6 — South Africa 410,0562,473— U.S.S.R.— 6,115, ,012,000 United Kingdom 5,896, , ,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 causes. 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.

Massive Human Dislocations

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

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

The Division of Germany:

The Creation of the U. N. Free Rice UN web Your world

The Nuremberg War Trials: Crimes Against Humanity

International Criminal Court After Nurembeg people thought there ought to be An international court but due to the Cold War it was put On hold…until 1990s and Bosnia. In 1998, 121 countries reached a historic verdict and established the ICC. But the jury is still out on whether the ICC can bring war criminals to justice and heal the wounds of conflict. In this program we hear the arguments for and against creating the court and the trials of handing down international justice from The Hague, Uganda and the former Yugoslavia. Today America does NOT belong to ICC Why?

Japanese War Crimes Trials General Hideki Tojo Bio-Chemical Experiments

7 Future American Presidents Served in World War II

The Race for Space

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

The Emergence of Third World Nationalist Movements

An update.... It is against the law for German people to deny the Holocaust. They serve jail time if they publically deny the Holocaust. That generation is gone - "that was my grandparents' time"

The De-Colonization of European Empires