Should the US Enter WWII and Pearl Harbor

War Crime War Crime: Atrocities or offenses against persons or property constituting violations of the laws or customs of war, including but not limited to, murder, ill treatment or deportation to slave labour or for any other purpose, of civilian population from occupied territory, murder or ill treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.

Crime Against Humanity For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack (a) Murder; (b) Extermination; (c) Enslavement; (d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population; (e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; (f) Torture; (g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; (h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; (i) Enforced disappearance of persons; (j) The crime of apartheid; (k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical healthMurderExterminationEnslavementDeportation or forcible transfer of populationImprisonment TortureRapesexual slaveryenforced prostitutionforced pregnancy enforced sterilizationsexual violenceracialculturalreligiousgender Enforced disappearancecrime of apartheid

WC Or CAH

Japan bombs China using planes

Italy Invades Ethiopia and Uses Chemical Warfare ,000 – combatants killed in action; 78,500 – patriots killed during the occupation (1936– 1941); 17,800 – civilians killed by bombings; 30,000 – massacre of February 1937; 35,000 – persons who died in concentration camps; 24,000 – patriots executed by Summary Courts; 300,000 – persons who died of privations due to the destruction of their villages.

Rape of Nanking civilians killed by Japanese military forces

Germany Creates Nuremberg Laws Separating Germans from Jews

Einsatzgruppen: German SS Soldiers Shoot “Undesirables on the spot”

German Treatment of Jews German Citizens Nuremberg Laws 2 nd Class Citizens WWII Begins=More Jews Night of Broken Glass Train ride then Camps, slaves, experiments and death Wansee Conference Einsatzgruppen Ghettos

United States Rejection of St. Louis

British Bomb Dresden , 000 Dead

United States Drops Two Atomic Bombs on Japan 140, 000 out of 350, 000

Conspiracy Clip Between September 1939 and April 1945 all of the defendants herein, acting pursuant to a common design, unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly did conspire and agree together and with each other and with divers other persons, to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly were principals in, accessories to, ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, and were connected with plans and enterprises involving the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

US Response to Europe’s War Isolationists in Congress challenge FDR Nye Committee led by Senator Gerald Nye investigates WWI profits Neutrality Act of 1935 placed an embargo on WWII fighting nations making money from war is wrong

Hitler Invades Poland 1939 US declares neutral (again) Neutrality Act modified-Allies can but weapons using Cash and Carry This war is getting worse

Lend-Lease March 1941 Neutrality Acts revised allowing nations on the Allied side (mainly Britain) to obtain US weapons without payment This policy is just like lending a neighbor a garden hose during a fire. As if…

Japan vs. US Tension since 1930 (Manchuria) upset that Open Door Policy we talked about in September FDR attempted a meaningless quarantine (isolationists) Japan destroyed American gunboat Panay in 1937

Japan vs. US Japan attacks south of Manchuria Japan and Germany form Tripartite Pact with Italy US cuts off trade with Japan (fall of 1941) including oil US freezes Japanese assets in the US Hideki Tojo Japan’s Prime Minister plans for war You wish you hadda me medals

Japan vs. US Tension since 1930 (Manchuria) upset that Open Door Policy we talked about in September FDR attempted a meaningless quarantine (isolationists) Japan destroyed American gunboat Panay in 1937 Japan attacks south of Manchuria Japan and Germany form Tripartite Pact with Italy US cuts off trade with Japan (fall of 1941) including oil US freezes Japanese assets in the US Hideki Tojo Japan’s Prime Minister plans for war December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

Jeannette Rankin As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else