Post World War II Guided Notes

1.  Devastation in Europe

  1. Close to ______Europeans had died
  2. Many displaced people were left ______
  3. Concentration camps, POW’s, refugees
  4. The ______left very little to salvage
  5. Warsaw’s population went from 1.3 million to ______
  6. Civilians tried to get on with their lives
  7. Lived in partially destroyed homes and had no ______, ______, or food

2.  Misery Continues

  1. Europe’s ______had been completely disrupted even years after the war
  2. Thousands died from ______and ______
  3. As winter approached, people went without shoes and coats

3.  Postwar Governments and Politics

  1. Prewar governments in Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and Norway ______
  2. Nazi government did NOT return to Germany for it ______
  3. Government under ______in Italy did not return for he led them to defeat
  4. Communist party starts to promise change within these countries
  5. At first, communist parties were ______then they started a series of violent strikes which caused the parties to ______

4.  Nuremburg Trials

  1. Another issue aside from governments and devastation were how to deal with ______
  2. ______representing 23 nations put the criminals on trial
  3. In the first round, 22 leaders were charged with waging a war of aggression
  4. Also charged with “crimes against humanity”- murder of ______people
  5. Hermann Goring and Rudolf Hess were among the criminals on trial
  6. Hess was found guilty- ______
  7. Goring committed suicide after he received a death sentence
  8. ______Nazi leaders were hanged
  9. The bodies of the executed were burned at the concentration camp of ______and cremated in the ovens that they used for their victims

5.  Japan after the war

  1. Two million lives had been lost
  2. No longer a colonial empire
  3. MacArthur started ______- disbanding the Japanese armed forces
  4. Japan was left only with a small ______
  5. He also brought criminals to trial
  6. ______- process of creating a government elected by the people- started by MacArthur
  7. This changed the Japanese empire into a ______

6.  New changes in Japan

  1. The new constitution guaranteed that real political power rested with the ______
  2. All citizens over the age of ______could vote
  3. Japan could no longer make war
  4. September a formal peace treaty was signed
  5. The ______had to declare he was not divine
  6. His power was also dramatically reduced

7.  The End

  1. Russia and ______emerge as the two superpowers
  2. Their postwar goals were very ______
  3. The ended the war as allies, but did they remain allies??