E3.+Compare+the+effects+of+WWII+on+areas+outside+of+Europe


 * __Effects of WWII:__**
 * Atomic bomb had devastaing effects on Japan


 * People Noticed the Holocaust
 * Finally, people outside of Germany came to realize how terrible and widespread the Nazi rule was and how many people had been affected by the Holocaust [[image:http://www.lebjournal.com/newz/wp-content/holocaust_fig_10.jpg width="243" height="299" align="right"]]
 * The Nazi regimes then sought to carryout "The Final Solution" in which, millions of Jews, Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled people, and political dissidents were rounded up, blamed for every concievable problem, and methodically killed.
 * Peace between Western Countries
 * U.S. was pulled out of the Great Depression
 * U.S. and Soviet Union are major powers
 * Nazi officials were prosecuted and sentenced
 * Japan was forced to get rid of its military and create a democracy--became powerful economically
 * Europe No Longer United
 * Many communities fell apart
 * Infastructure was devastated
 * U.S. offered money to many Western Europeans for reconstruction--aka Marshall Plan
 * It worked and W. Euro economies recovered quickly
 * Less Colonialism
 * attitudes were very negative towards rulers wich inspired many natives to rebel

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 * Women's Roles Changed Again
 * Three-fourths of adult women were employed during the war.
 * After World War 2 had ended, most women either continued to work outside of home, or got a higher education
 * International Organizations Created
 * United Nations (1945)
 * Replaced the failed League of Nations
 * Goal: to mediate and if necessary intervene in disputes between nations
 * Expanded beyond realm of political conflicts to monitoring human rights and social problems
 * Also: World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs
 * to create and manage intergrated global economy[[image:http://kenbaker.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/the_cold_war.jpg width="335" height="266" align="right"]]
 * Cold War Began
 * Threat of nuclear war between the two most powerful nations: the US and the Soviet Union
 * U.S. and Soviet Union had very different world views
 * Soviets: Totalitarian and Communist society
 * United States: Democratic and capitalist society
 * Neither wanted the others to spread influence, so they created strategies on how to contain each other through NATO and Warsaw Pact.
 * lasted 50 years