Unit 6—Chapters 10 – 11 World War II

CSS 11.4, 11.7

Part FiveEffects of the War

EQ 8:What were the major immediate and long-term effects of WWII?

New Global Powers Emerge

• Yalta Conference, 1945• Focus on post war issues

•structure of the UN•occupation zones in Europe•division of east and west

• critics say FDR gave in to Stalin too much•Poland’s government•the USSR still hadn’t declared war on Japan

New Global Powers Emerge

• Potsdam Conference, 1945• Truman told Stalin about the atomic bomb•he already knew about it

• the Big Three discussed the “situation” in Poland and the war in the Pacific•the USSR still hadn’t declared war on Japan

New Global Powers Emerge

• The United Nations, 1945• 50 nations formed a successor to the League of Nations in San Francisco

• 5 nations formed the security council•US•France•Britain•China•USSR

New Global Powers Emerge

• Nuremburg Trials• 22 Nazi leaders were tried for crimes against humanity•this is how much of the information on the Final Solution and the Holocaust came out

•Nuremburg was the birthplace of the Nazi Party

Major Technological Developments

• Aviation• faster, longer travel•B-52, B-29

• jet aircraft• the German Messerschmitt Me-262 was not developed until the end of the war

• commercial airlines•Boeing 747

Major Technological Developments

• Weaponry• rocketry led to the space program

• rocketry led to communications satellites and GPS

• the atomic bomb led to nuclear power

Major Technological Developments

• Communication• Radar

•RAdio Detection And Ranging

•air traffic control, weather forecasting, speed control

• sonar•SOund, NAvigation and Ranging

•maps of ocean floor and sonograms

Major Technological Developments

• Medicine• penicillin

• an antibiotic used to fight bacterial infection

• infection used to kill more soldiers and civilians than battle

• morphine• opium based pain reliever

• plasma• liquid portion of human blood allows for blood transfusion

• nuclear medicine• cancer treatments

• much of the new knowledge came from medical experimentation done by German and Japanese doctors in their prison camps

Cost of the War

• 62 millions casualties• 25 million military casualties• 37 million civilian casualties• abt. 10 million in the Holocaust

• 6 millions Jews (78% of all Jews in Europe)

• 400,000 Americans died

• 70% of European industry destroyed• 13% of US population served (16 million)

• US spent $381 billion on war

The Cost of Modern Warby James Brady, American University (1968)Updated by Mr. Valenzuela using the CPI figures from the BLS in 2004

• The total estimated cost of World War II would have been sufficient to pay for all of the following. . .

• A $200,000 house for every family in the United States, Britain, Belgium, and Portugal.

• A $10,000,000 library for every city of 200,000 inhabitants or over, in the US, Britain, and Russia.

• A $50,000,000 university for each of those cities.

• A $25,000 automobile for every family in the U.S. and Britain.

• The Salaries of 50,000 teachers and an equivalent number of nurses at $60,000 per year for 100 years.

• A college or vocational education (at an estimated cost of $90,000) for every high school graduate in the United States between the ages of 17-21.