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Results of World War II

Results of World War II. Issues of Racism in the War. American internment camps for Japanese-Americans President Truman is the first to desegregate the military All blood runs red

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Results of World War II

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  1. Results of World War II

  2. Issues of Racism in the War • American internment camps for Japanese-Americans • President Truman is the first to desegregate the military • All blood runs red • These black soldiers, who served in Europe where they were welcomed as if they were white, are the ones who return to the states after the war – wondering why they are treated so badly at home. • They are the founders of the civil rights mov’t

  3. Tuskegee Airman Never lost a man!

  4. WW II Casualties: Europe Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

  5. WW II Casualties: Asia Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

  6. WW II Casualties • Civilians only. • Army and navy figures. • Figures cover period July 7, 1937 to Sept. 2, 1945, and concern only Chinese regular troops. They do not include casualties suffered by guerrillas and local military corps. • Deaths from all causes. • Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany. • Against Soviet Russia; 169,822against Nazi Germany. • National Defense Ctr., CanadianForces Hq., Director of History.

  7. Massive Human Dislocations

  8. The U.S. & the U.S.S.R. Emerged as the Two Superpowers of the later 20c

  9. The Bi-Polarization of Europe: The Beginning of the Cold War

  10. The Division of Germany:1945 - 1990

  11. The Creation of the U. N. UN web Your world Free Rice

  12. The Nuremberg War Trials:Crimes Against Humanity

  13. International Criminal Court http://www.americaabroadmedia.org/programs After Nurembeg people thought there ought to be An international court but due to the Cold War it was put On hold…until 1990s and Bosnia. In 1998, 121 countries reached a historic verdict and established the ICC. But the jury is still out on whether the ICC can bring war criminals to justice and heal the wounds of conflict. In this program we hear the arguments for and against creating the court and the trials of handing down international justice from The Hague, Uganda and the former Yugoslavia. Today America does NOT belong to ICC Why?

  14. Japanese War Crimes Trials General Hideki Tojo Bio-Chemical Experiments

  15. 7 Future American Presidents Served in World War II

  16. The Race for Space

  17. Early Computer Technology Came Out of WW II Colossus, 1941 Mark I, 1944 Admiral Grace Hooper, 1944-1992COBOL language

  18. The Emergence of Third World Nationalist Movements

  19. An update.... • It is against the law for German people to deny the Holocaust. They serve jail time if they publically deny the Holocaust. • That generation is gone - "that was my grandparents' time"

  20. The De-Colonization of European Empires

  21. The World We Live in Today Was Formed by the Events of World War II & its immediate aftermath!

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