1. #5 - Aim: How will the rebuilding begin, will it be different than Post- WWI?
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2. Japan Surrenders USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay
SEPTEMBER 2, 1945 –
USS Missouri in
Tokyo Bay
 General Douglas McArthur accepts the surrender

3. Adm. Nimitz
signing.

4. Yalta Conference Feb. 1945 FDR/Stalin/Churchill meet in Yalta
Agreed to create UN
In exchange for a couple of Japanese islands, Stalin will join war against Japan

5. Yalta Divide Germany into 4 occupation zones – US/BG/FR/Soviets
Soviets would be given the “honor” of capturing Berlin

6. Nuremburg Trials November 20th, 1945 to October 1st, 1946.
Nuremberg War Trials – Holocaust
23 Nations tried war criminals
22 Nazi leaders were tried, Hitler’s most trusted party officials
There were also Doctor’s Trials and Lawyer Trials

7. Accused of the following crimes
Crimes against the Peace – planning and waging an aggressive war War crimes – acts against the customs of warfare ie. Killing hostages and prisoners, or destruction of towns and cities Crimes Against Humanity – murder, extermination, deportation, or enslavement of civilians

8. Hermann Göring ( )
Hitler’s successor and head of the “Luftwaffe” committed suicide the night before his execution with a cyanide capsule he had hidden in a jar of skin medication.
Rudolph Hess –
Convicted of crimes that were being committed in the East, and proposed laws discriminating against Jews and Poles. Was sentenced to life imprisonment at Spandau prison, committed suicide in 1987.
The prison was destroyed shortly after

9. Occupation of Japan
Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and prison guards put on trial 7 including Tojo were sentenced to death
Trials were also conducted in the Philippines, China and other Asian battlegrounds
MacArthur introduced free-market practices
New Constitution provided for woman suffrage and basic freedoms.