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After the World War II War Crimes Europe After World War II

Many things changed once World War II After the war, many leaders from Germany had occupied much of Europe during World War II. Many of the
was over. Much of Europe and Eastern Asia Japan and Germany were countries in the west returned to the same governments and borders they
had been destroyed by the fighting and brought to trial. They had had prior to the war. However, Germany was divided up into Eastern and
bombings that had taken place over many violated the rules of war Western Germany. The Eastern part was controlled by the USSR (Russia)
years. Also, many country's borders needed according to the Geneva and the Western part by the Allies.
to be set and governments re-established Convention and had also The USSR also took control of many of the countries in Eastern Europe
where Germany or Japan had taken over. committed crimes against where they had fought the Germans. These included Poland, Romania,
humanity. These crimes included Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
the Holocaust, slave labor, and Europe was in much need of financial aid due to all the roads, bridges,
the terrible treatment and buildings and more that had been destroyed in the fighting. The United
torture of prisoners of war. Many States offered Aid in the form of the Marshall Plan to help Europe recover.
of these leaders were executed
for their crimes.

Japan and Eastern Asia

after World War II

• The US and the Allies occupied Japan. They
maintained control as Japan recovered from the
war. Japan would become an independent nation
again in 1952.
• In Korea, the Allies and the USSR (Russia) divided
up the country into North and South Korea. The
plan was for Russia to control the North and the
Allies the South until a free election could be held
for the entire country. This never happened as
Russia later refused and the country is still split to
this day with North Korea controlled by
communists.

Dua e Sehar • In China, a civil war continued that had started
prior to World War II. It was between the
communists and the nationalists. The communists 38
won and the nationalists fled to Taiwan.