Effects of the War and New Technologies Lecture 5

Standard 11.8.6 Describe major developments in aviation, weaponry, communication, and medicine and the war’s impact on the location of American industry and use of resources. Essential Question: What was the cost of the war? What was gained form the war?

Yalta Conference Yalta Conference, 1945 structure of the UN occupation zones in Europe division of east and west the USSR still hadn’t declared war on Japan

Potsdam Conference Potsdam Conference, 1945 Truman told Stalin about the atomic bomb Big Three discussed the “situation” in Poland and the war in the Pacific

United Nations The United Nations, 1945 50 nations formed a successor to the League of Nations in San Francisco 5 nations formed the security council—the US, France, Britain, China, and the USSR

Nuremburg Trials Nuremburg Trials 22 Nazi leaders were tried for crimes against humanity Information Nuremburg = birthplace of the Nazi Party

Cost of the War 62 millions casualties 25 million military casualties 37 million civilian casualties abt. 10 million in the Holocaust 6 millions Jews (78% of all Jews in Europe) 400,000 Americans died 70% of European industry destroyed 13% of US population served (16 million) US spent $381 billion on war

WAR Time Inventions

Aviation Aviation faster, longer travel jet aircraft B-52, B-29 jet aircraft commercial airlines Boeing 747

Weaponry Weaponry rocketry led to the space program rocketry led to communications satellites and GPS the atomic bomb led to nuclear power

Communication Communication Radar sonar RAdio Detection And Ranging air traffic control, weather forecasting, speed control sonar SOund, NAvigation and Ranging maps of ocean floor and sonograms

Medicine Medicine penicillin morphine plasma nuclear medicine much of the new knowledge came from medical experimentation done by German and Japanese doctors in their prison camps