1. COS Standard 9
Describe the significance of major battles, events, and consequences of World War II campaigns, including North Africa, Midway, Normandy, Okinawa, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, and Yalta and Potsdam Conferences.

2. Locating on a map or globe the major battles of World War II and the extent of the Allied and Axis territorial expansion Describing military strategies of World War II, including blitzkrieg, island-hopping, and amphibious landings Explaining reasons for and results of dropping atomic bombs on Japan Explaining events and consequences of war crimes committed during World War II, including the Holocaust, the Bataan Death March, the Nuremberg Trials, the post-war Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Genocide Convention
Chapter 24, 25 and 26

3. Yalta Conference Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Plan a postwar world
Poland: Soviets set up government, made up of prewar Polish leaders and would hold free elections.
Declaration of Liberated Europe: get to choose the form of government which they want
Dividing Germany: 4 zones divided between, Great Britain, US, Soviet Union, and France; Germany pay reparations
Caused parts of the Cold War

4. Yalta Conference

5. Potsdam Conference Truman, Stalin
Truman wants German industry to recover
Stalin disagrees
Truman compromises
German industrial equipment goes to Soviet Germany, while food shipments go to the other Allies.
New German-Polish border
Truman threatens Stalin with the atomic bomb if Stalin does not agree
Increased Cold War tensions between US and USSR

6. Potsdam Conference

7. Holocaust Hitler’s attempt to rid the world of the Jewish population
Ultimately killed about 6 million Jews
Final Solution: Wannsee Conference
Extermination camp: killing centers attached to concentration camps; example: Auschwitz
Concentration camp: detention/work centers for healthy Jews; example: Buchenwald

8. Nuremberg Trials
Tried and decided the punishment of people who committed war crimes from Europe and Japan

9. united Nations League of Nations changed to the United Nations.
Goals: preserve peace, prevent another world war
Made up of
General Assembly
every nation would have one vote
Powers: vote on resolutions, choose the non-permanent members of the Security Council, vote on UN budget
Security Council
Britain, France, US, USSR and China; permanent members who have veto power
International peace and security, investigate international problems and propose settlements, take military action to preserve peace

10. united Nations

11. united Nations: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Universally protects the rights of all humans in the world
Adopted December 10, 1948
30 articles

12. United Nations: Genocide Convention
Genocide: deliberate and systematic destruction of a whole group of people
Defines genocide, prevention of genocide and punishment for committing genocide
December 8, 1948