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Europe & Japan in Ruins A. Peace Conferences B. Europe in Ruins C. Japan in Ruins D. Costs of the War

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Potsdam – July 1945 Stalin, Truman, & Attlee met to discuss the occupation of Germany and the surrender of Japan

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Page 1: Europe & Japan in Ruins A.Peace Conferences B.Europe in Ruins C.Japan in Ruins D.Costs of the War

Europe & Japan in Ruins

A. Peace ConferencesB. Europe in RuinsC. Japan in RuinsD. Costs of the War

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A. Peace Conferences• Meetings that occurred

during the war to plan war strategies and for the peace that would follow

• Yalta – Feb 1945 Stalin, Roosevelt, & Churchill met to discuss how to restructure Europe after the war

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• Potsdam – July 1945 Stalin, Truman, & Attlee met to discuss the occupation of Germany and the surrender of Japan

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B. Europe in Ruins• Many cities laid in ruins because of the

bombing

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• Large numbers of displaced people wandered the continent

• People had no homes b/c of the concentration camps, POWs, or were in the wrong countries when the borders changed

• Nuremburg Trials – Nazi war criminals put on trial because of the Holocaust

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C. Japan in Ruins• United States will occupy Japan until 1952 to

oversee the rebuilding of the country• War criminals put on trial – 7 (including Hideki

Tojo) were sentenced to death• Major change in Japan was the development of a

constitutional monarchy • Japan no longer allowed to keep a military

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D. Costs of the War

• Over 60 million people died in World War II• 2/3 were civilians• Soviet Union suffered more than other nations

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Country Direct Costs of the War

Military Killed/MIA

Civilians Killed

United States $288 Billion 292,131 XX

Great Britain $117 Billion 271,311 60,595

France $111.3 Billion 205,707 173,260

USSR $93 Billion 13,600,000 7,720,000

Germany $212.3 Billion 3,300,000 2,893,000

Japan $41.3 Billion 1,140,429 953,000