When is post wwii

Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were under way. But the massive efforts to rebuild had just begun. When the war began in the late s, the world's population was approximately 2 billion.

In less than a decade, the war between the Axis the Allied powers had resulted in 80 million deaths -- killing off about 4 percent of the whole world. Allied forces now became occupiers, taking control of Germany, Japan, and much of the territory they had formerly ruled. Efforts were made to permanently dismantle the war-making abilities of those nations, as factories were destroyed and former leadership was removed or prosecuted.

War crimes trials took place in Europe and Asia, leading to many executions and prison sentences. Millions of Germans and Japanese were forcibly expelled from territories they called home. Allied occupations and United Nations decisions led to many long-lasting problems in the future, including the tensions that created East and West Germany, and divergent plans on the Korean Peninsula that led to the creation of North and South Korea and -- the Korean War in The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine paved the way for Israel to declare its independence in and marked the start of the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict.

The growing tensions between Western powers and the Soviet Eastern Bloc developed into the Cold War, and the development and proliferation of nuclear weapons raised the very real specter of an unimaginable World War III if common ground could not be found. World War II was the biggest story of the 20th Century, and its aftermath continues to affect the world profoundly more than 65 years later.

German Wehrmacht General Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before his execution by a firing squad in a stockade in Aversa, Italy, on December 1, The general, the commander of the 75th Army Corps, was sentenced to death by a United States military commission in Rome for having ordered the shooting of 15 unarmed American prisoners of war in La Spezia, Italy, on March 26, Soviet soldiers with lowered standards of the defeated Nazi forces during the Victory Day parade in Moscow, on June 24, Gaunt and emaciated, but happy at their release from Japanese captivity, two Allied prisoners pack their meager belongings, after being freed near Yokohama, Japan, on September 11, , by men of an American mercy squadron of the U.

The return of victorious Soviet soldiers at a railway station in Moscow in An aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic-bomb blast shows some small amount of reconstruction amid much ruin on July 20, The slow pace of rebuilding is attributed to a shortage of building equipment and materials.

A Japanese man amid the scorched wreckage and rubble that was once his home in Yokohama, Japan. A P Thunderbolt of the U. Small and large bomb craters dot the grounds around the wreckage.

The interior of the courtroom of the Nuremberg trials in during the Trial of the Major War Criminals, prosecuting 24 government and civilian leaders of Nazi Germany. Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he served at Spandau Prison, Berlin, until he died in Among the aircraft are a number of jet- and rocket-propelled planes. Sudeten Germans make their way to the railway station in Liberec, in former Czechoslovakia, to be transferred to Germany in this July photo.

After the end of the war, millions of German nationals and ethnic Germans were forcibly expelled from both territory Germany had annexed and formerly German lands that were transferred to Poland and the Soviet Union.

The estimated numbers of Germans involved ranges from 12 to 14 million, with a further estimate of , to 2 million dying during the expulsion. A survivor of the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare, Jinpe Teravama retains scars after the healing of burns from the bomb explosion in Hiroshima, in June Disabled buses that have littered the streets of Tokyo are used to help relieve the acute housing shortage in the Japanese capital on October 2, Japanese who hauled the buses into a vacant lot are converting them into homes for their families.

An American G. This is an aerial view of the city of London around St. General Charles de Gaulle center shakes hands with children, two months after the German capitulation in Lorient, France, in July From January 14 to February 17, , as many as high-explosive aerial bombs and more than 60, incendiary bombs were dropped on Lorient. The city was almost completely destroyed, with nearly 90 percent of the city flattened.

The super transport ship General W. Richardson, docked in New York, with veterans of the European war cheering on June 7, This aerial file photo shows a portion of Levittown, New York, in shortly after the mass-produced suburb was completed on Long Island farmland. This prototypical suburban community was the first of many mass-produced housing developments that went up for soldiers returning home from World War II.

Roosevelt wanted Soviet participation in the newly formed United Nations and immediate support from the Soviets in fighting the ongoing war in the Pacific against Japan. Churchill argued for free and fair elections leading to democratic regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, especially Poland. Clearly there were some key conflicting interests that needed to be addressed. After much negotiation, the following outcomes of the Yalta Conference emerged :.

Soon after the conference it became clear that Stalin had no intension of holding up his end of negotiations. He eventually allowed for elections in Poland, but not before sending in Soviet troops to eliminate any and all opposition to the communist party in control of the provisional government.

A second conference was held from July 17 to August 2, , in Potsdam, Germany. Churchill returned to represent Great Britain, but his government was defeated midway through the conference and newly elected Prime Minister Clement Attlee took over.

Stalin returned as well. In light of this, the new representatives from the United States and Great Britain were much more careful with their negotiations with Stalin. The final agreements at Potsdam concerned:.

Unemployment, which had reached 25 percent during the Great Depression and hovered at A new assembly line at Detroit Tank Arsenal operated by Chrysler which turned out ton tanks by mass-production methods. Even before the war ended, U. Powerful military and business leaders pushed back, and plans for widespread reconversion were postponed. View of the assembly line and workers at the Studebaker automobile manufacturing plant in South Bend, Indiana, But history proved the pessimists wrong.

Most returning veterans had no trouble finding jobs, according to Herman. By the summer of , Americans had been living under wartime rationing policies for more than three years, including limits on such common goods as rubber, sugar, gasoline, fuel oil, coffee, meat, butter, milk and soap.