American Response To Ww2

States. Military and economic aid was sent to Greece as well as Turkey to resist the Soviet threat. Part of the strategy of the Truman Doctrine included the Marshall Plan, a massive aid and rebuilding program designed to assist European countries to rebuild, while at the same time helping those nations resist the temptation to adopt communist forms of economics and government. The United States sent food and economic aid to many European nations to help them rebuild their infrastructures and economies in order to resist communism. This aid was also offered to Eastern European nations, but Stalin forbade those nations under his control to accept it. Germany remained divided between the zones controlled by the United States and its allies and

Only nine per cent of Germans now consider the end of WWII a defeat. Many now see themselves as the victims of Hitler and Nazi regime.

On the other hand, Public opinion in the United States over World War II radically changed between the years 1939 to 1946. Early in this period, Isolationists held a clear lead over interventionists. Memories of the horrors of World War I haunted people’s minds. Which pushed the American people to view their involvement in World War I as a failure. However, a 1950 poll conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion found that 59% of Americans felt that that if the United States did not directly enter the war against the Nazis, the world would "flounder for ten or 20 or 30 bitter years in a chartless and meaningless series of

There were thousands of battlefronts and warsites. This horrible war was responsible on human lost more than any other war. Many lives were lost in the air, on land and in the sea. It was a total war where all countries involved which included nearly the entire world. Each country had to apply all their resources into the war effort. Which drained economic and human lives of countries and ended with a huge change in the leading world powers. However, the world power shift was the greatest outcomes of the War .The 2 main superpowers after this war was America and Union of Soviet Socialists Republic. I believe that the war was a total waste since People all over the world suffered through this war. Hundreds of thousands of people died. All for the sake of their countries. Even though No one actually gained anything from it. The fact is that all of the countries (excluding the US) lost much more than what they gained. Britain lost their power, France lost lives and land, Germany lost everything and Japan lost thousands of civilians in their suicidal attacks. Now, maybe if governments use the past as a guide to the future we won't have to fight such a bloody battle ever again. Especially with nuclear weapons so easily