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Aftermath of War
Loss of life/property
Social/Cultural
Economic
Political
Diplomatic
Loss of life
60 – 80 million total
military dead: 22 – 25 million
civilian dead: 40 – 52 million
Loss of life
NAZI Holocaust deaths
6 million Jews
6 - 10 million others
Loss of life
Japanese War Crimes dead
5.5 million civilians
+ 500,000 POWs
Social/Cultural Changes
Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944
(“GI Bill of Rights”)
Social/Cultural Changes
Civil Rights Movement
“Double-V Campaign”
NAACP
Social/Cultural Changes
Civil Rights Movement
LULAC
American GI Forum
Dr. Hector Garcia
Executive Order 9981
Civil Rights Movement
Economic Consequences
European Recovery Program
“Marshall Plan”
Economic Consequences
“Truman Doctrine”
Political Consequences
End of colonial rule
Independence movements
Disruptions = opportunity for change
New governments
Soviet “satellite” nations
Political Consequences
New governments
Germany
Italy
Austria
Poland
England
Soviet “satellite” nations
Political Consequences
Central & Eastern Europe
Balkan nations
“Iron Curtain”
Political Consequences
Occupied Germany
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
1948-1949
Germany partitioned
“Eastern bloc” nations – by 1950
Soviet-controlled
Political Consequences
Occupied Japan
Political Consequences
Korea divided
Political Consequences
French Indochina
Independence
India & Pakistan
Muhammad Jinnah
Mohandas Gandhi
Independence
Philippines
Malaysia (formerly British)
Indonesia (formerly Dutch)
African nations
Political Consequences
Partition of Palestine
State of Israel
Israel UN Plan
China
Nationalists vs. Communists
Chiang Kai-Shek Mao Zedong
“Fall” of China - 1949
Diplomatic Consequences
War crimes trials
Nuremberg Trials
Hermann Göring
Tokyo Trial
(International Military Tribunal for the Far East)
War crimes
Hague Conventions treaties (2)
Geneva Conventions treaties (4)
Diplomatic Consequences
NATO
Diplomatic Consequences
Warsaw Pact
NATO & Warsaw Pact nations
Diplomatic Consequences
United Nations
“First Lady of the World”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Cold War”
“superpowers”