EUROPE AND JAPAN IN RUINS

MAIN IDEA
World War II cost millions of human lives and billion of dollars in damages. Left Europe and Japan in ruins.

WHY IT MATTERS TODAY
The United States survived World War II undamaged, allowing it ot become a world leader.

6 long years of war

cost of war

harvest of destruction

BERLIN

cost of world war ii

United States

Great Britain

France

USSR

Germany

Japan

misery continues after war

postwar governments and politics

the nuremberg trials

POSTWAR JAPAN

U.S. occupation of japan

Changes Made by Mcarthur

• demilitarization - disbanding the Japanese armed forces
• democratization - the process of creating a government elected by the people

Changes Made by Mcarthur

• created a new constitution
• changed to constitutional monarchy
• power of the emperor reduced
• emperor no longer viewed as divine

Article 9
Stated that the Japanese could no longer make war. They could fight only if attacked.

September 1951
the United States and 47 other countries signed a formal peace treaty with Japan

with no armed forces, the Japanese agreed to a continuing U.S. military presence to protect their country

The U.S. and the Soviet Union emerged from the war as the world's two major powers

The U.S. and the Soviet Union ended the war as allies , however, their postwar goals were different