1. Ending the War
And Sadness

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

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

4. 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)

6. I’m on island hopping time

7. Japanese Advance—
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

8. Allied Victories in the Pacific

9. 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

10. 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.

11. Sadness: Internment Camps and the Holocaust

12. 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

13. 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

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

16. 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)

17. 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

18. 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

19. Now, let’s laugh Lip Sync Battle