WWII Outcomes

Question 1

CONTEXT

Answer 1

new technology such as blitzkrieg, airplanes, atomic bombs, missile, etc. led to the most destructive war in history (60 million deaths, 1/2 were civillians)

ex. Rape of Nanjing in China by Japan in 1937 (200-300k deaths), firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo by USA and atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 2

PROPAGANDA AND COLONIAL SUPPORT

Answer 2

governments mobilized the economy and the people with propaganda; had colonial resources (GB got support from India and Africa; Japan had comfort women from China and Korea to satisfy soldiers’ sexual needs)

Question 3

WOMEN

Answer 3

used in industries and in the military (Rosie the Riveter in the US represented women working in factories); USSR women were 1/2 of the workforce and 100k won military honors; Japan had 14 million volunteers (Greater Japan Women’s Society)

Question 4

HOLOCAUST

Answer 4

Holocaust and Final Solution&raquo_space; 6 million Jews dead, 4 million Russians, Poles, disabled, old, communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses

many killed in concentration camps in Auschwitz and Dachau

Question 5

LAND REFORM

Answer 5

Holocaust&raquo_space; Jewish migration to Israel&raquo_space; establishment of a Jewish nation in the Middle East

poverty, cities in ruins, many casualties&raquo_space; division of Europe - Western part under USA protection (NATO) and capitalist, democratic; Eastern part under USSR and communism

Question 6

WORLD PEACE

Answer 6

Churchill and FDR declared “we will support the rights of all people to choose the form of government under which they will live”&raquo_space; UN, World Bank, IMF