WWIIAlisha Johns

Melissa Jarrett Beth Herder

The Cost of War

• Between $1 and $2 Trillion

• Most expensive War in History

• Property damage = $239 Billion

• U.S. National Debt rose from $42 billion to $269 billion in 1946

• U.S. spent 10x more than what they spent on all the previous wars put together

Casualties

• The Deadliest War Ever

• Civilians – 40-52 Million, 13-20 million of which suffered from disease or famine

• 6 million of those civilians were from Poland

• 22% of Poland’s total population was killed

• Military – 22-25 million, 5 million of which were prisoners of war

Causes

• Prisons

• Concentration Camps

• Raids

• Starvation

• Excessive Work

• Nuclear Bombing

• Disease

• 1 million children became orphans

• 6 million Jewish people were killed due to

the holocaust

• 50,000 Nazis were found guilty of war

crimes

• 25% of all casualties happened in Asia

• 300,000 U.S. soldiers were killed

By the Numbers…

Damages

• Aerial Bombardment caused destruction in Germany and Britain

• Coventry, Dresden, and London had to be completely rebuilt

• Many other cities were victims of street fighting

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki were definitely the worst off due to the Atomic Bomb

• Only 20% of Japanese industries remained

Nagasaki

London

In addition…

• Penicillin, a popular antibiotic, was discovered during the war.

• Plastic surgery was developed and used to reconstruct injured soldiers

• Radar was put to use detecting other planes in the skies

• Factories began to quickly mass produce goods (such as weapons during the war)