A War To Be Won Ww2 Analysis

Some of the world’s worst atrocities occurred during world war II. During WWII both sides suffered tremendous losses, and with those losses each nation suffered economically. With the sudden decrease in population some nations were stunted in growth. In A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, over a five-year study of the war by a legion of demographers, the total civilian losses are still an estimation. In total there were at least 21 million soldiers and 38 million civilian deaths (554). Those alive after the war were in confusion. All over the world the effects of the war could be felt. In the aftermath of the war in Europe, the numbers of casualty and the destruction of their landscape left them in dismay. In the weakened state

As the war in Europe died down with the allies as victorious in Europe, Japan stands among the last of the Axis in the war. Japan would become the first and only nation that would suffer the effects of a nuclear weapon. Soon after would come the surrender of Japan and a death toll for Japan of 2 million service members (Murray Williamson, 554). At the end of WWII, the powers of the emperor would be stripped, and in its place a new constitution created by the United States. MacArthur would preside over the Diplomatic reform which advocated women’s suffrage, the protection of labor unions, land reform, regulation of public services, educational restructuring, and the sanctity the vote (Murray Williamson 573). This created an alternative to the authoritarian and militarized modernization that had taken them to war (Murray Williamson, 573). Through this new law Japan would be deprived of its army and would only be allowed to form a self-defense force, therefore MacArthur and the other American reformers believe they had created a new Japan (Murray Williamson 573). The U.S at the end of the war had a very different experience than Europe and Asia. The war-stricken Europe lie in ruins was now vulnerable to the slowly shifting world dominance. For most of American history before WWII, Great Britain was the world leader and ruled their empires around the world. As result of the constant siege and bombing from

In The summer of 1945 Newsweek reported that “10,000 returning veterans per month … developed some kind of psychoneurotic disorder” (The Washington Post). Many of the soldiers of WWII had developed shell shock, known today as PTSD. Through the challenges of the WWII created the forgotten generation. “Historically they have been squeezed between the “Greatest generation,” those old enough to serve in struggle against the Axis, and the “Baby Boomers,” those too young to have memories of the war” (Ossian 134). This generation was historically known to work for the war effort as teens during WWII. The difficulty of this generation to live through the war and great depression was unmatched by any other generation before it, or after it. This generation would bear most of the effect of the war because this generation was forced to grow up all to quick. As Ossian pointed out in The Forgotten Generation, “Children would be called upon to work in various strenuous ways for the war effort” (72). This meant that instead of going to school and advancing in educations, children of this generation were encouraged to work to gain their “patriotism” by contributing to the war effort. Although American children of this generation were not affected as much as other parts of the world, the effect of child labor due to