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WWII

WWII. Killed 3% OF 1940’S world pop. 60 million people Most of the fighting and dying took place in Eastern China and Western Russia USSR- apx. 25 million China- apx. 15million Poland- apx. 6 million (Holocaust) Germany- 4.5 million Japan- 2.4 milion USA- 400k. Lets Brainstorm events!.

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WWII

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  1. WWII Killed 3% OF 1940’S world pop. 60 million people Most of the fighting and dying took place in Eastern China and Western Russia USSR- apx. 25 million China- apx. 15million Poland- apx. 6 million (Holocaust) Germany- 4.5 million Japan- 2.4 milion USA- 400k

  2. Lets Brainstorm events! • 1945- Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conf. Division of Germany, Austria, Poland • Dropping of A-Bombs • 1946 Chinese civil war resumes between Nationalists and Communists • French land in “IndoChina” • Greek Civil War –Nationalists v. Commies • Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech

  3. There is a Weather Alert in the Ballwin area until apx. 9:37, There have been reports of Brainstorms! • 1947-Truman Doctrine • Marshall Plan • Indian and Pakistan become states • Communist take over Romania • Term “Cold War” coined by US senator • 1948-Czechs become Communist • Marsahll plan in effect • Berlin Airlift

  4. BRAINSTORMS!!!!!!!!!!!!! • 1948- UN and USSR disagree over who controls Korea • 1949-China Becomes communist • USSR detonates an A-Bomb “Joe 1” • Formal division of Germany • 1950- North Korea invades South Korea • China committs over 500,000 soldiers to the cause, the UN (USA heavily included) also commit massive amount of troops

  5. Creation of Superpowers • USA emerges from the World Wars as the a global superpower. • USA briefly had the world’s largest Navy • Was briefly the only nuclear power • Had about ½ of world’s industrial capacity • All of the world owed USA’s bankers money • (had become a leading industrial producer by 1890 and continued to grow, while Europe destroyed itself)

  6. USA takes lead in new international organizations –U.N., NATO • Military and economic power along with the3 Marshall plan and Truman Doc. Set the stage for Superpower

  7. USSR • USSR had largest army in the world by 1945, much of it in Eastern Europe • Battle of Berlin • Took efforts to rebuild Japan and Germany as a threat • Wanted buffer states- got China sort of to create sizeable Communist bloc • Matched USA and allies (Warsaw Pact), encouraged spread of Communism

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