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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!. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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 millionChina- apx. 15million
Poland- apx. 6 million (Holocaust)Germany- 4.5 million
Japan- 2.4 milionUSA- 400k
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
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
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
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)
• 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
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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