1. Ending the War

2. Yalta Conference Big 3 USSR & Japan Division of Germany
Stalin’s promises
Did the Allies sacrifice Eastern Europe to the USSR?

3. Potsdam Declaration April 12, 1945 FDR dies…H.S. Truman=Pres.
Germans evacuated out of East Europe
Reestablishment of Poland’s borders
The US will dominate in Japan
US issues ultimatum to Japan: “Unconditional Surrender”; no guarantee the Emperor Hirohito will not be tried as war criminal
Hints of Atomic bomb

4. The Atomic Bomb Military Necessity Atomic Diplomacy Domestic Politics
Momentum of War

5. 8/6/45 Hiroshima 80,000
8/9/45 Nagasaki ,000
8/14/45 Cease Fire
9/2/45 Unconditional surrender

6. Post WW2 United Nations Mission: Preserve World Peace
Replaces ineffective League of Nations
Big 5…Permanent members of Security Council

7. Nuremberg Trials
War criminals
Crimes against humanity