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World War II – The Immediate
Consequences of the War’s End
Unit 5 Chapter 26 Section 4
Unit 6 Chapter 27 Section 1
7.2.3 Part 5
Consequences of World War II Devastation
• Germany
• 500,000 German
civilians killed
• Transportation and
fuel supplies
destroyed
• Japan
• Cities were destroyed
– Lack of Air Force
– Cities made from
flimsy material
collapsed quickly
The Atomic Bombs
• August 6, 1945 – “Enola Gay” drops “Little Boy”
on Hiroshima
– 190,000 killed
• August 9, 1945 – “Bockscar” drops “Fat Man” on
Nagasaki
– 73,000 killed
Consequences of World War II Population
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• Total deaths range
anywhere from 60-80
million
• United States loses
over 400,000
• Soviet Union loses
almost 24,000,000
• Germany loses
between 8 and 10%
of their population
Consequences of World War II Population
• Holocaust results in 11,000,000 dead
• 6,000,000 of which are Jewish
– 2/3’s of all European Jews killed
• Poland lost approximately 3,000,000
citizens
Consequences of World War II –
The Atomic Age
• United States – Only country
with nuclear weapons
• August, 1949 – USSR tests its
first nuclear weapon
• USA vs. USSR in an arms race
– Who can build the most
nuclear weapons
• Size of weapons and armies
(arsenal) used in fighting Cold
War
– A war with no actual direct
conflict
Consequences of World War II –
Germany and Japan
• Germany divided into
east and west
• Berlin, the largest city,
also divided
– USA, England and
France control West
– USSR controls East
– Berlin Wall becomes
symbol of Cold War
• Japan cannot
maintain their own
army
• United States
essentially acts as
Japanese army
The Cold War
• No direct conflict between USSR and USA
• Arms race begins in preparation for war
– 1949: USSR tests its first atomic bomb
• Suspicions of Communists within the
United States
• Conflicts in Korea and Vietnam for
Communist expansion
• Space race grows for inter-stellar
colonization