Looking at an old photograph of you and your grandmother before she passed. Your mind flashes back to all the great memories, and to all the great people before they died. If time travel were possible, I would travel back in time to prevent all the major issues that happened in the 1940s such as World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. World War II caused damage to a lot of cities in Europe and Asia, and if it never happened the world would be a lot different today. Berlin, the capital and cultural center of Germany, was bombed very heavily during the World War II. With over 45,000 tons of bombs in two weeks the city was almost completely destroyed. Palaces, museums, churches, monuments and cultural sites fell as a result of the bombs. …show more content…
The displacement of between 7 million and 9 million Jews was an immediate effect of the Holocaust. This resulted in a gaping chasm in the social structure. Almost an entire social class was destroyed because the Jews occupied the educated and productive levels of society. As a result, those cities that had large Jewish populations have suffered poor economic growth ever since, especially in Russia. Jews made up a large part of the Russian middle class because they filled the majority of skilled jobs. Once they were eliminated, there was no one to do the work, including in areas such as healthcare and the trades. The Holocaust effected the creation of the state Israel.The Holocaust had many effects on the Jewish homeland formation. It was clear that Jews needed a place where they could live without fear of tyranny. In 1948, Israel legally claimed statehood thanks to the 1947 United Nations Partition of the British Mandate. Once this occurred, most Jewish people willingly left homes in Arab countries to go to Israel, as well as other free counties, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, France and the United