World War's Negative Effects On Japan And The Soviet Union

World war ll negatively affected Japan and the Soviet Union in many different ways. Japan was involved with World War ll due to shortages of oil and other natural resources in an attempt to displace the United States as the dominant power of the Pacific. They attacked the United states in an effort to seize the resources of Southeast Asia. Japan was on the opposite side of the three great allied powers. Japan had an alliance with Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Croatia called the “Axis Powers''. Their country participated in many battles but the most known battles include; Attack on Pearl Harbor, Battle of Midway, Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Attu, and Battle of Tarawa. Following the war, the United States

The social outcome for the Soviet Union is that more than thirteen percent of their population was killed and twenty five million people were left homeless following the war. Years after the war, they saw notable gender imbalance due to the men who lost their lives serving in the war. Their political outcome of the war is they ended with a strong National Defense. World War II led straight into the Cold War, allowing the Soviet Union to dominate Eastern Europe with the strength of their defense. Finally, the USSR faced economic decline after seventeen thousand towns, seventy thousand villages, and thirty two thousand factories were destroyed as a result of the war. This caused a deficiency in men, machinery, livestock, and restricted harvest which led to food shortages before, during, and after the

The social outcome for Japan is they had a crucial decrease in birth rate which positively maintained their population. They also dealt with a population shift from the countryside to urban areas. The political outcome of the war is that their armed forces, empire, state organization called “Shinto”, and nationalist organizations were all shut down. Japan’s defense industries were closed down. Lastly, Japan faced an economic shortage because the remaining factories and railroads were no longer able to be used from the bombings of the war. A year after Japan surrendered, a food shortage occurred as a result from a lack of input after the factory bombings. Black markets popped up directly from the act of food