should the us enter wwii and pearl harbor. war crime war crime: atrocities or offenses against...
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Should the US Enter WWII and Pearl Harbor
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War Crime
• War Crime: Atrocities or offenses against persons or property constituting violations of the laws or customs of war, including but not limited to, murder, ill treatment or deportation to slave labour or for any other purpose, of civilian population from occupied territory, murder or ill treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.
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Crime Against Humanity• For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the
following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack
• (a) Murder; (b) Extermination; (c) Enslavement; (d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population; (e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; (f) Torture; (g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; (h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; (i) Enforced disappearance of persons; (j) The crime of apartheid; (k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health
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WC OrCAH
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Japan bombs China using planes
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Italy Invades Ethiopia and Uses Chemical Warfare 1935
275,000 – combatants killed in action; 78,500 – patriots killed during the occupation (1936–1941); 17,800 – civilians killed by bombings; 30,000 – massacre of February 1937; 35,000 – persons who died in concentration camps; 24,000 – patriots executed by Summary Courts; 300,000 – persons who died of privations due to the destruction of their villages.
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Rape of Nanking 1937
• 200-3000 civilians killed by Japanese military forces
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Germany Creates Nuremberg Laws Separating Germans from Jews
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Einsatzgruppen: German SS Soldiers Shoot “Undesirables on the spot”
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German Treatment of Jews
German Citizens
Nuremberg Laws
2nd Class Citizens
WWII Begins=More Jews
Night of Broken Glass
Train ride then Camps, slaves, experiments and death
1938
1942 Wansee Conference
Einsatzgruppen
Ghettos
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United States
Rejection of St. Louis
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British Bomb Dresden 1945
• 25, 000 Dead
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United States Drops Two Atomic Bombs on Japan
• 140, 000 out of 350, 000
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Conspiracy Clip
• Between September 1939 and April 1945 all of the defendants herein, acting pursuant to a common design, unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly did conspire and agree together and with each other and with divers other persons, to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity
• unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly were principals in, accessories to, ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, and were connected with plans and enterprises involving the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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US Response to Europe’s War• Isolationists in Congress challenge FDR• Nye Committee led by Senator Gerald Nye
investigates WWI profits• Neutrality Act of 1935 placed an embargo on
WWII fighting nations
making money from war is
wrong
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Hitler Invades Poland 1939• US declares neutral (again)• Neutrality Act modified-Allies can but
weapons using Cash and Carry
This war is getting worse
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Lend-Lease March 1941
• Neutrality Acts revised allowing nations on the Allied side (mainly Britain) to obtain US weapons without payment
This policy is just like lending a neighbor a garden hose during
a fire. As if…
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Japan vs. US
• Tension since 1930 (Manchuria) upset that Open Door Policy we talked about in September
• FDR attempted a meaningless quarantine (isolationists)• Japan destroyed American gunboat Panay in 1937
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Japan vs. US
• Japan attacks south of Manchuria• Japan and Germany form Tripartite Pact with Italy• US cuts off trade with Japan (fall of 1941) including oil• US freezes Japanese assets in the US• Hideki Tojo Japan’s Prime Minister plans for war
You wish you hadda
me medals
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Japan vs. US
• Tension since 1930 (Manchuria) upset that Open Door Policy we talked about in September
• FDR attempted a meaningless quarantine (isolationists)
• Japan destroyed American gunboat Panay in 1937• Japan attacks south of Manchuria• Japan and Germany form Tripartite Pact with Italy• US cuts off trade with Japan (fall of 1941) including oil• US freezes Japanese assets in the US• Hideki Tojo Japan’s Prime Minister plans for war• December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor
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Pearl Harbor
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Jeannette Rankin
As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to
send anyone else