Rebuidling after WWII

In February 1945, the big three, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met at the Yalta Conference. They discussed the fate of Germany and the postwar world for eight days. Stalin thought that Germany should be occupied by Allies military forces because he thought a harsh punishment would serve the Germans right. Churchill disagreed. Roosevelt tried to convince Stalin in a more approachable way and hoped Stalin would help Roosevelt to finish the war against Japan and support the world peace-keeping, United Nations. Stalin promised to "free and unfettered elections" in Poland and agreed to join the war against Japan on August 8, 1945. The big three also decided as a result to divide Germany into four zones, one each for America, Britain, Soviet, and the French.
The Nuremberg Trial also occurred in Germany; Twelve out of twenty-four Nazi leaders were sentenced to death, the others were sent to prison. However, more than 200 lesser Nazi leaders who took part in the Holocaust were set free.
Later on, Japan was occupied by General Douglas MacArthur and the United States force. They arrested and put more than 1,100 Japanese from the former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo to lowly prison guards on trial. In the process, MacArthur helped reshape Japan’s economy from setting free-market examples that led to an extraordinary economic recovery, which is now also known as the MacArthur Constitution.