TEACHER’S NOTE: Students should understand that the defeat of Germany and Japan in World War II had fundamental impacts on the future political development of both these powers. Germany’s and Japan’s new constitutions reflect these wartime and post-wartime experiences.
What impact did the failure of democracy in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s play in post-World War II Germany?
What did Germany learn from its Holocaust experience?
What reasons can you pose for Germany’s adoption of one of Europe’s most liberal asylum laws?
What is the nature of Germany’s diplomatic relations with Israel?
How was Japan’s new constitution developed ?
Imagens Wirtschaftswunder: West German department store, 1950s
Image Headquarters of the American military administration in Germany, 1945
Japan: Constitution, 1946
Constitution of Japan, November 3, 1946
Tanaka Kotaro: In Search of Truth and Peace, excerpts, 1952