1. Effects of the War and New Technologies
Lecture 5

2. Standard
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?

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. WAR Time Inventions

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

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

11. 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

12. 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