COS STANDARD 9

Describe the significance of major battles, events, and consequences of World War II

campaigns, including North Africa, Midway, Normandy, Okinawa, the Battle of the Bulge,

Iwo Jima, and Yalta and Potsdam Conferences.

LOCATING ON A MAP OR GLOBE THE MAJOR BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II AND THE EXTENT OF THE ALLIED AND AXIS TERRITORIAL EXPANSION

DESCRIBING MILITARY STRATEGIES OF WORLD WAR II, INCLUDING BLITZKRIEG, ISLAND-HOPPING, AND AMPHIBIOUS LANDINGS

EXPLAINING REASONS FOR AND RESULTS OF DROPPING ATOMIC BOMBS ON JAPAN

EXPLAINING EVENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF WAR CRIMES COMMITTED DURING WORLD WAR II, INCLUDING THE HOLOCAUST, THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH, THE NUREMBERG TRIALS, THE POST-WAR UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION

Chapter 24, 25 and 26

YALTA CONFERENCE Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Plan a postwar world

Poland: Soviets set up government, made up of prewar Polish leaders and would hold free elections.

Declaration of Liberated Europe: get to choose the form of government which they want

Dividing Germany: 4 zones divided between, Great Britain, US, Soviet Union and France, Germany pay reparations

Caused parts of the Cold War

YALTA CONFERENCE

POTSDAM CONFERENCE Truman, Stalin Truman wants German industry to recover Stalin disagrees Truman compromises

German industrial equipment goes to Soviet Germany, while food shipments go to the other Allies.

New German-Polish border Truman threatens Stalin with the atomic

bomb if Stalin does not agree Increased Cold War tensions between US

and USSR

POTSDAM CONFERENCE

HOLOCAUST Hitler’s attempt to rid the world of the

Jewish population Ultimately killed about 6 million Jews Final Solution: Wannsee Conference

Extermination camp: killing centers attached to concentration camps; example: Auschwitz

Concentration camp: detention/work centers for healthy Jews; example: Buchenwald

NUREMBERG TRIALS Tried and

decided the punishment of people who committed war crimes from Europe and Japan

UNITED NATIONS League of Nations changed to the

United Nations. Goals: preserve peace, prevent another

world war Made up of

General Assembly every nation would have one vote Powers: vote on resolutions, choose the non-

permanent members of the Security Council, vote on UN budget

Security Council Britain, France, US, USSR and China; permanent

members who have veto power International peace and security, investigate

international problems and propose settlements, take military action to preserve peace

UNITED NATIONS

UNITED NATIONS: UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Universally protects the rights of all humans in the world

Adopted December 10, 1948

30 articles

UNITED NATIONS: GENOCIDE CONVENTION Genocide: deliberate and systematic

destruction of a whole group of people Defines genocide, prevention of

genocide and punishment for committing genocide

December 8, 1948