WWII Immediate Realizations and Consequences

Worldwide Physical Damage

France was a fucking mess, man…

The innovations of weaponry, such as the use of tanks, allowed for more damage to be sustained

DEATH

  • >50-60 million

    • I just know the CO2 levels dropped 

In the Western areas of the Soviet Union (Ukraine, etc), there was so much damage, families just… disappeared. There was nothing but farmland and no record of life.

  • cemeteries were blown up, so there was just…stone

  • churches and temples hold birth records, so when you take that away, there is essentially nothing showing people were there, but past knowledge

China and Japan suffered huge amounts of physical damage.

America’s gucci tho :)

Psychological Impact of War Against Civilians

War allows individuals to murder others and get away with it.

  • them or me

Prisoners of war…you get the idea.

Libra Code - Lincoln put together instructions on how to treat POW within a civil war

  • How do you deal with a captured Confederate soldier? their families? how would they treat you and freed AA on the Union’s side?

How do you deal with everyone you love and know, either being shot dead or… disappearing? 

  • people’s properties were stolen from them while they were gon

    • Polish jews attacked

      • “I like your house and cows…why you back?”

After the war, we have to decide whether or not those in charge were criminals. The Holocaust was unique in that it was very public and therefore, we gotta decide the line on humanity and human rights right then and there. 

New Technology

  • conputers

    • large machine that took up a room

Cold War

One side is pro capitalism, the other is against it…what could happen when they come into contact?

Economic Recovery

Japan began to recover in the 50s.

  • Remember, the bombing was extremely heavy

    • Grave of the Fireflies

China had a faster recovery than expected, however

  • reestablishment of trade and therefore the economy 

In order to recover your nation, you need professionals, and therefore, you need to open up the universities and spread higher education so more people can become doctors, engineers, etc. 

  • Poor and middle-class people need to be educated!

    • well…white men…

Marshal Plan - offered capital to European allies

  • in order to receive the money, you have to have an established plan

    • The problem lies with the new modernization of the world, in which America kinda led due to America having no physical damage

  • controvertial

    • Taking American money and shipping it to Europe

    • HOWEVER, the money always came back bc these countries had to buy supplies from America

      • expansion

      • keeping jobs

      • more employees and managers

  • resurgence in trade!

  • one of the best policies based on range and the realization thatt you could supply things people need

International Organizations

Ending of Colonial Empires

Concepts & Realities of Self-Determination