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Impact of WWII

Impact of WWII. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill . I. International. Secretary-General Ban Ki -moon. A. The United Nations is formed 1. A place where nations can come together and work for the common good and resolve problems

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Impact of WWII

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  1. Impact of WWII Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill

  2. I. International Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon • A. The United Nations is formed • 1. A place where nations can come together and work for the common good and resolve problems • 2. Declaration of Human Rights • 3. Security Council 15 members: five permanent members with veto power and ten non-permanent members, elected by the General Assembly for a two-year term. Meetings are called at any given time when the need arises. Rotating presidency: Members take turn at holding the presidency of the Security Council for one month.

  3. B. The Marshall Plan • 1. Designed to help Europe rebuild after the war • 2. Offered to USSR and its allies but rejected • 3. Administered by Sec of State George C. Marshall European Recovery Program expenditures by country

  4. C. Military Alliances 1. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) • a. The Allies minus the USSR form an alliance for mutual protection. • b. Still active today

  5. 2. Warsaw Pact formed by the USSR and its allies to counter act NATO

  6. II. Domestic • A. Role of women: They prove they have a place in the workforce

  7. B. African-Americans 1. African-Americans serve with honor 2. They are treated differently in Europe 3. Truman desegregates the military in 1948

  8. C.Japanese Internment

  9. 1. By executive order FDR sends approx. 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry (including US citizens) to internment camps. • 2. They were thought to be disloyal. No evidence was ever found of disloyal Japanese-Americans during the war. • 3. The Supreme Court upholds the Order in Koramatsu v United States

  10. 3. Under President Carter and then Reagan the government passed legislation that admitted wrong doing. • The legislation said that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership". The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion in reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned and their heirs.

  11. III. Cold War • A. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics does not give back all the territory it gained during the war. • B. Creates puppet communist governments in Eastern Europe to act as a buffer to Western Europe

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