Review Of Postwar History After World War II

World War II brought several changes to the world and specifically America. It not only changed the world map but also set impact on the behaviours. WWII played a major role in building turning points during different periods. Before WWII, African Americans were not offered equal rights in the community. It was considered an impossible thing that African could ever do a white collar or even a blue collar job. However, soon after the WWII, there came a turning point in the lives of African American with the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

World War II was considered to be a watershed event in history by many historians. A watershed event is commonly referred to as an “event or period marking a turning point in a course of action or state of affairs”. World War II was an event that changed history and the aftermath wrecked most ideas of the future before the war. After the war every party wanted to not repeat this war, so instead of peace, the world rearmed with new technologies and humanitarian ideologies to prevent any form of the war from happening again. This turned into conflicts and fights that were more globalized than ever before. This war fueled another conflict that dictated how the world would operate, which was the Cold War.

I believe that World War II was a continuation of World War I because of some not resolved issues. Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles by expanding the military and invading Poland. One of the events that led to the beginning of World War 1 was: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism; which stands for MAIN. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia but they then joined up with Russia. After, Germany declared war on Russia which caused the war to expand. World War I ended in 1918 when Germany surrendered. It also had a great impact on European countries after it ended.

Inquiry Skills—You will develop questions and plan investigations, evaluate change and continuity over time, develop credible explanations of historical events and developments based on reasoned interpretation of evidence, gather evidence, evaluate and use evidence, develop explanations and make persuasive arguments in support of your conclusions, and communicate your conclusions.

During the war, many visions of America's postwar role began to emerge. One of the key roles that began to emerge was the idea of equality for all. Americans established that Americanism rested on toleration of diversity and equality for all, while the enemy's philosophy was racism. So, by the end of the war the new immigrant groups had been fully accepted as loyal ethnic Americans, rather than distinct and inferior "races." Another idea of America's postwar role, was brought to light in 1944 when the president called for an "Economic Bill of Rights." Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed to expand the government's power in order to secure full employment, an adequate income, medical care, and a decent home for all Americans. Already ill and preoccupied

The end of World War II was the spawn of a new war that would continue for over fifty years: The Cold War. Technically this war was not a fifty-year physical confrontation between two countries but more of a political confrontation between the world’s two remaining super-powers. The dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the beginning of a new arsenal that would lead to the development of nuclear weapons.

“Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” This is a very powerful and truthful statement. The old picture is important because it is from World War II, it has been passed down by generations, and it is worth a lot of money.

This speech by the President of Poland, President Donald Tusk, focuses on his views on the necessity for greater unity among the European nations. He brings up the history of of his home along with his personal history of living behind the iron curtain and how his experience of living under the communist regime strengthens his idea of a guaranteed freedom for all. He says that only through unity can Europe oppose totalitarianism and the restriction of freedom.

With the influx of immigrants from the islamic world in Europe, the impact on both the values and life patterns of western civilization, and the instability of Islam, was eventually lost.

World War II was one of the biggest epidemics in the history of humanity. From Hitler to Franklin D. Roosevelt there were problems world wide.(submarine) These problems eventually led up to the outbreak of war, this war wasn’t any ordinary war either. It was brutal to say the least, with over twenty million deaths worldwide it nearly killed off one percent of the world population (Sheehan) You would think that most people died in war but that is not the case. Over half of the deaths were from famine/starvation, concentration camps, and there was even a large number of suicide.(world war II planes.com/American) For the people who were in war they had a lot of extra tools to help them out. They had secret codes that were “Indecipherable”, they also had various different submarines, and along with that they had a heavy amount of aircraft.(world war II planes.com/Boeing) Although there are so many of these different types of weapons/tools I’m here to tell you about some of the many discrete ones. (Beaver)

“Europe was devastated by years of conflict during World War II. Millions of people had been killed or wounded. Industrial and residential centers in England, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Belgium and elsewhere lay in ruins.”

2.1 The Formation of the European Community/Union: Integration’s Twentieth Century Narrative – ‘No More War’

It is my pleasure to speak to you today on the unfortunately precarious state of affairs between the United States and Europe. As you all know, hegemonic power has shifted between European nations for centuries, while the United States did not emerge as such an influential entity until after World War II. Since these post-war reconstructive years, the United States has continued to grow in social, economic, political, and diplomatic strength, thus cementing its role as a major international power. Although Europe came out of the war battered and bruised, it rose up out of the ashes, and surpassed its former glory to start yet another chapter in its historical saga.

Before the 1950s, Europe was a continent entrenched in war and revolts. From the 1800s to the 1950s there were over ninety conflicts and uprising, culminating with arguably the most devastating: World War II. The Second World War hit Europe with an enormous cost in terms human and economic capital, it had left previously rich and prosperous nations in ruin. It not only exposed the horrors of modern-warfare but also the terrors of extreme nationalism, these two revelations lead to the unanimous notion that such tragedy could never be allowed to occur in Europe again, or the rest of the world for that matter. Monnet and Schuman, two French statesman regards as the architects of the European Union, concluded the most effective way of promoting peace and stability throughout Europe was via economic integration. (Wyplosz, 2012) The first step in this new direction was the European Coal and Steal Community [ECSC], it was the first integrated body of its kind. It proposed that for all nations who signed [Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands], their

Europe, in the aftermath of World War Two was, in Tony Judt’s words, “utterly shattered, hopeless, and exhausted.” Any publication written about this time period will emphasize that the war was a dramatically civilian experience, especially considering the long lasting mental strain of the interwar period. Although this terror did not end post-1945 for the Balkans and most of Eastern Europe, the changed international environment in the 1990s provided new opportunities for the promotion of democracy.