Today we have a quiz and talk about some of the info that we didn't cover.
Semester questions:
1. What were the causes of WW2?
2. What impact did the US have on WW2?
3. Why did the US and Allies win WW2?
-Potsdam Conference
- Stalin, Churchill, Truman and Clemente attended
- New prime minister in GB Attley
- Focused on punishing Germany and making sure that they didn’t do this again
- Germany would have to be more democratic
- Transition to a monopoly economy
- Only export certain items (couldn’t export war materials, war video games, etc.)
- Indochina- temporarily divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel line
- Start of Vietnam war kind of
- Japan would surrender to GB in the south an china in the north
- Demilitarization, denazification, democratization
- Division of Germany and Berlin and Austria into four occupation zones
- Prosecution of Nazi war criminals
- Reverse all German annexations in Europe including Sudetenland, Alsace- Lorraine, Austria, and the westernmost parts of Poland
- All land given back to rightful owners
- Reduce size of Germany
- Removal of the German populations remaining beyond the new eastern borders of Germany
- Agreement on war reparations to the Soviet Union
- Take control or destroy German industries that made war materials
- Poland was recognized as being a communist controlled gov’t
- The Potsdam Declaration: this ultimatum stated that if Japan did not surrender, it would face “prompt and utter destruction”
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