EUH 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Carpet Bombing, Space Race, Warsaw Pact
29 May 2017
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European armies: slovakia, hungary, italy, romania, finland. Ussr 1941-1945: nkvd secret police, political officers, gulag labor (prison camps, cossacks, siberians, women, partisan, european plains war, rivers. Japanese war 1941-1945: tropical, pacific war, pow labor, amphibious warfare, naval air power, wmd"s, atomic bomb, kamikaze, banzai charge. Europe in ruins warsaw, leningrad, vienna, budapest, rotterdam. Deaths: 20 million soviets, 9-11 million noncombatants in camps, 2 million soviet pow"s, 20% of poland, 3 million german soldiers, 2 million german civilians. Homeless: 25 million soviets, 20 million germans, 30 million east and central europe. Displaced persons damages and border alignments, expulsion of german nationals: 13 million germans, . 5 million jews to israel and the u. s, camp survivors, pow"s, orphans. War crime trials: 100,000 from third reich, 25,000 summary executions in france, nuremberg (12 people were hanged, about 7 more received life sentences, russia, japan (7 people were hanged) End of war events: allied conferences stalin, roosevelt, churchill.
