The document discusses the Nuremberg trials held after World War II. The Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials held in Nuremberg, Germany between 1945 and 1949 to prosecute Nazi war criminals. Key people from the Nazi Party, military, and German industries were charged with crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. The trials established an international court for dealing with genocide and other crimes against humanity.

1. Aim: Was the United
States justified in using
the atomic bomb against
Japan?
Do Now: HW Quiz

2. European front

3. The Yalta Conference
The
uncool
one

4. Germany after the Yalta
Conference

5. Who are these men? And what do you
think they are watching?

6. Holocaust footage

7. The Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out
in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. They were
held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice.
The defendants included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking
military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and
doctors.
•The charges were crimes against peace and crimes
against humanity. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed
suicide and was never brought to trial.
•The Nuremberg trials established a permanent
international court for dealing with genocide and other
crimes against humanity.
The Nuremberg Trials

9. The ‘Final Solution’
• In January 1942,
Heinrich Himmler,
director of the
persecution of the
Jews, decided that a
new ‘Final Solution’
was necessary.
• Final Solution:
exterminating

10. How did the Nazis decide who
was Jewish?
• grandparents were
Jewish
• Married to a Jew
• Child of a Jew
• Jewish by conversion of
faith
• Association with Jews
• By 1940, all Jews had to
have their passports
stamped with the letter ‘J’

11. The American response to the
Holocaust
• Despite knowing
about violence toward
the Jews, American
immigration is limited
–Quota of 150,000
annually (per
country)
• Finally in 1944, FDR
created the War
Refugee Board.
–Through this board,
the United States

12. Pacific front

13. • “Island Hopping” is the phrase given to the strategy used by
the United States to gain military bases and secure the many
small islands in the Pacific.
o The attack was lead by General Douglas MacArthur,
Commander of the Allied forces in the South west Pacific.
o The US targeted the islands that were not as strongly
defended by the Japanese. They took control of those islands,
and quickly constructed landing strips and small military bases.
Then they attacked other islands from the bases they had
established.
o Slowly the US army moved closer to Japan, taking control of
many of the surrounding islands.

14. Iwo Jima

16. Iwo Jima
• Critical to the U.S.
as a base from
which heavily
loaded bombers
could reach Japan.
• Most heavily
defended spot on
earth.
(20,700- Jap troops
dug into tunnels and
caves).
• 6,000 marines died.
• Over 17,000
Japanese died
Was one of bloodiest battles fought by the
Americans in the Pacific War.

20. Okinawa

21. The Battle for Okinawa
 In preparation for a full scale
invasion of Japan
 More than 1,900 kamikaze attacks
 Over 12,000 US killed
 Over 100,000 Japanese killed
 This battle was the deciding factor
for dropping the bomb (US did
not want more US death)
 Churchill predicted the cost of
million of American lives and
British lives if Allies invade Japan

22. The Potsdam Conference
Still the
uncool
one

23. The A-Bomb is used against Japan

24. V-J Day
• Victory in Japan
• August 15, 1945
• Unconditional
surrender of Japan

25. • Was the
use of the
Atomic
bomb
necessary
?
Should the US
be tried for