1. The Devastation of Europe & Japan Erica Takahashi

2. Background  Devastating results in Europe and Japan  60 million was dead  50 million lost home, property, and family  US was undamaged.

3. Europe in Ruins  40 millions of Europeans died.  Cities were destroyed. Bombing Shelling  Countryside was destroyed.  Many people were displaced

5. Harvest of Destruction  Undamaged countries: Paris, Rome, Brussels.  Damaged countries: The Blitz destroyed London. Soviet Union attacked Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Bombs destroyed 95% of the central city in Berlin.

6. A Harvest of Destruction  People lived in destroyed homes and caves.  No water, No electricity.  Starvation and disease was the major problem.  Factories were destroyed.

7. A Harvest of Destruction  Many people joined army Survivors of the Concentration Camp Prisoners  Many people were not in their countries.  They wanted to get home, hoping to find their families or to find a safe place at least.

8. Simon Weisenthal  He was a Holocaust survivor.  He wrote about the survivors of the Holocaust.

9. Misery Continues After the War  Misery in Europe continued.  Agriculture was disrupted Transportations were destroyed. Therefore there were no food delivered to cities.  Thousands of people died of famine and disease. They bartered expensive things to get a few potatoes  During winter, they had no shoes and coats.

10. Postwar Governments & Politics  Europeans blamed their leaders for the war and it’s consequences.  Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and Norway changed their government system.  Germany, Italy and France’s Leaders couldn’t return to the old leadership. Germany: Hitler’s Nazi government had brought Germany to ruins. Italy: Mussolini had led Italy to defeat. The Vichy government collaborated with the Nazis. Many resistance fighters were Communists.

11. Postwar Governments & Politics  Communists waned to take over the politics faster so they made some strikes.  French and Italians reacted by voting for Anti-Communist parties.  Therefore, Communist started to decline. Which led the economies of France and Italy began to recover.

12. An Attempt at Justice: The Nuremberg Trials  While nations were recovering, they wanted to punish Germany for the Holocaust.  They started a trial called Nuremberg Trials. They wanted to make sure that such crimes would never happen again.  Nazis were on trial.  Violating the laws of war AND committing “Crimes against humanity”

13. Videos  Nuremberg Trials http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcudlm6tPa0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxB- 8gS1C9khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxB- 8gS1C9k  How Nazis were hung http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4- mAMeH0Rx8&mode=related&search=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4- mAMeH0Rx8&mode=related&search=

14. An Attempt at Justice: The Nuremberg Trials  Adolf Hitler, SS chief Heinrich Himmler, and Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels committed suicide to avoid the trial.  The rest of the Nazi and leaders were hung.  “A thousand years will pass and still this quilt of Germany will not have been erased”