effects of the war eq 8:what were the major immediate and long- term effects of wwii?
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Effects of the War EQ 8:What were the major immediate and
long-term effects of WWII?
Yalta Conference, 1945
• Focus on post war issues• structure of the UN• occupation zones in Europe•division of east and west
• critics say FDR gave in to Stalin too much
•Poland’s government•the USSR still hadn’t declared war on Japan
Potsdam Conference, 1945
• Truman told Stalin about the atomic bomb• he already knew about it
• the Big Three discussed the “situation” in Poland and the war in the Pacific• the USSR still hadn’t declared war on Japan
The United Nations, 1945
• 50 nations formed a successor to the League of Nations in San Francisco
• 5 nations formed the security council—the US, France, Britain, China, and the USSR
Nuremburg Trials
• 22 Nazi leaders were tried for crimes against humanity• this is how much of the information on the Final Solution and the Holocaust came out
• Nuremburg was the birthplace of the Nazi Party
Major Technological Developments
• Aviation• faster, longer travel•B-52, B-29
• jet aircraft• the German Messerschmitt Me-262 was not developed until the end of the war
• commercial airlines•Boeing 747
Major Technological Developments
• Weaponry• rocketry led to the space program
• rocketry led to communications satellites and GPS
• the atomic bomb led to nuclear power
Major Technological Developments
• Communication• Radar
•RAdio Detection And Ranging
•air traffic control, weather forecasting, speed control
• sonar•SOund, NAvigation and Ranging
•maps of ocean floor and sonograms
Major Technological Developments
• Medicine• penicillin
• an antibiotic used to fight bacterial infection
• infection used to kill more soldiers and civilians than battle
• morphine• opium based pain reliever
• plasma• liquid portion of human blood allows for blood transfusion
• nuclear medicine• cancer treatments
• much of the new knowledge came from medical experimentation done by German and Japanese doctors in their prison camps
Cost of the War
• 62 millions casualties• 25 million military casualties• 37 million civilian casualties• abt. 10 million in the Holocaust
• 6 millions Jews (78% of all Jews in Europe)
• 400,000 Americans died
• 70% of European industry destroyed• 13% of US population served (16 million)
• US spent $381 billion on war
The Cost of Modern Warby James Brady, American University (1968)Updated by Mr. Valenzuela using the CPI figures from the BLS in 2004
• The total estimated cost of World War II would have been sufficient to pay for all of the following. . .
• A $200,000 house for every family in the United States, Britain, Belgium, and Portugal.
• A $10,000,000 library for every city of 200,000 inhabitants or over, in the US, Britain, and Russia.
• A $50,000,000 university for each of those cities.
• A $25,000 automobile for every family in the U.S. and Britain.
• The Salaries of 50,000 teachers and an equivalent number of nurses at $60,000 per year for 100 years.
• A college or vocational education (at an estimated cost of $90,000) for every high school graduate in the United States between the ages of 17-21.