Effects of

WWII

Germany

• Nuremberg Trials• Nov. 20, 1945 &

Oct. 1, 1946• Adolf Eichman –

Creator of the Final Solution

• Herman Goring – Commander of the Luftwaffe

• Cities in ruin• Yalta Conference• Feb 1945• The Big 3 –

Churchill, Stalin, FDR

• Who will lead occupied nations (popular sovereignty)

• Potsdam Conference• July 1945• The Big 3 – Atlee,

Stalin, Truman• Poland’s borders drawn• Germany divided into 4

zones• USSR allowed

reparations from East Germany

United Kingdom

• Devastated from Luftwaffe Blitz

• Phased out imperial holdings OR gave colonies home rule

• Created power vacuum

France

• Punished those who collaborated with Nazis

Philippe Pétain in charge of Vichy France

• Gave up most colonies• Held on to

Algiers and Vietnam

Japan• Cities in ruin• Hiroshima & Nagasaki

• Military leaders tried and punished• Emperor

retained position• Hirohito – Living god

• US Military Rule• MacArthur

occupied Japan• Helped write new

Constitution

united soviet socialist republic

• Western region devastated

• Large, powerful army built

• Occupied most of Eastern Europe

•Weapons• Amphibious tanks (DUKW)• Newly designed aircraft carriers• Improved hand guns• Jets • Cruise missiles=V1 Rockets• Ballistic missiles=V2 Rockets• A-bomb

Technology

" I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but world War IV will be fought

with sticks and stones.“Einstein

TechnologyPenicillin – Discovered 1928, presented 1929, massively distributed during WWII

Electronics advancements

Computers ENIAC -- 27 tons, used for calculations for the creation the hydrogen bomb

International Relations Human

Civilization Threatened

United Nations• Created Israel 1948• Mediates Conflict• Established a World Bank• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

IMF – International

Monetary Fund

GATT – General Agreement on

Tariff Trade 1948

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