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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 – occupation zones

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”