CONTENTS INTRODUCTION The Global War Draws to a close We Can Do It CHAPTER 1 War Crimes Trials CHAPTER 2 Political and Territorial Changes Post WWII 16 O CHAPTER 3 Reconstruction Europe and Asia 26 CHAPTER 4 Founding the United Nations 34 CHAPTER 5 The Cold War 36 CHAPTER 6 Women s Rights 42 CONCLUSION 44 FURTHER READING AND WEBSITES 45 GLOSSARY 46 INDEX 48
THE GLOBAL WAR DRAWS TO A CLOSE Timeline 1943 September 8 Italy surrenders to Allied forces 1945 World War II 1939 1945 was a true global war that involved almost every country in the world At the end of the war only nine countries were neutral The rest had joined with either the Allied or Axis powers Allied countries were led by Great Britain the United States and the Soviet Union U S S R or the United Soviet Socialist Republic France Canada and China were also Allied countries Axis countries included Germany Italy and Japan Many countries around the world were involved in the war because they were colonies of the maior powers May 8 Germany surrenders to Allied forces August 15 Japan surrenders to Allied forces Allied Axis and Neutral countries at the End of World War II ARCTIC OCEAN Canada Denmark ATLANTIC France Bulgaria PACIFIC United State Spain Spanish Morocco Iraq Persie Afghanistan Spanish Sahara Anibya Egypt Satt West thioplas Liberia Guinea colonel Dutch at Portuguese colony Tople of Capricorn LGEND South Africa As coUNTRIES ALLED COUNTRIES DAS THEN ALLIE New Zealand NUTRAL COUNTRIES SOUTHERN OCEAN
END OF THE WAR On May 8 Germany surrendered to Allied forces This ended the war in Europe but the fight in the In September 1943 Italy surrendered Pacific between the Allies and Japan to the Allies The country had been led by a dictator named Benito Mussolini continued In early August 1945 the United States dropped two nuclear After years of terrible losses in the war bombs on the Japanese cities of Mussolini was fired in July 1943 In Hiroshima and Nagasaki The two October Italy joined the Allies for the bombs killed thousands of people rest of the war instantly Others became sick and died By the spring of 1945 an Allied victory in the weeks that followed Emperor in Europe seemed certain The leader Hirohito of Japan surrendered on of Nazi Germany was a dictator August 15 World War II was named Adolf Hitler Rather than be officially over caught by the Allies Hitler committed suicide in his underground hiding BELOW A mushroom cloud erupts from the place on April 30 Two days earlier explosion after the United States dropped a Benito Mussolini was shot dead then nuclear bomb on Hiroshima hung by his feet in Milan Italy The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan s advantage FROM EMPEROR HIROHITO's RADIO ADDRESS ANNOUNCING THE SURRENDER OF JAPAN
