Veterans of war are courageous, mindful, mission-driven and loyal to the core. We can all learn to appreciate life no matter how challenging the situation we may be going through. War can teach us that we are stronger than believe ourselves to be and that we may possess strength, wisdom and insight beyond expectation.

The Urgent Lessons of World War I

• War is possible no matter how great things seem.
• “Stupid is as stupid does.”
• A bad peace just means more war.
• There is no divine “plan”; decisions of war and peace are up to us and only us, and we own the results.

The reason we need to study war is so everyone knows what happened and understand how bad it was and people don’t do it again. The reason we should study the wars because we don’t want to make the same mistakes. That we made in the past where there were too many wars e.g. WWI, WWII and Gallipoli.

World War II has taught many people different things. Some learnt about the willpower of humans and what it means when one’s homeland is invaded. Others discovered humanity’s limitations, such as whether one can push their moral boundaries to serve their country despite the pressure of their own values.

Many civilians died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation. The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war, including 8.7 million military and 19 million civilian deaths.

The war provided two contradictory lessons: the first was that war was to be avoided at all costs, the second was that democracies had to be ready to resist aggression. The second lesson led most western European states, including Germany, to rearm and join the Atlantic alliance.

The legacy of the war would include the spread of communism from the Soviet Union into eastern Europe as well as its eventual triumph in China, and the global shift in power from Europe to two rival superpowers–the United States and the Soviet Union–that would soon face off against each other in the Cold War.

The Japanese intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.

• Aug 15, 1945. End of World War 2. The end of the war happened after Japan surrendered.
• May 17, 1954. Brown vs.
• Dec 1, 1955. Rosa Parks.
• Period: Dec 1, 1955 to Dec 21, 1965. Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• Jul 4, 1956. U-2 Incident.
• Sep 27, 1957. Little Rock Nine Incident.
• Oct 4, 1957. Sputnik launched.
• Apr 17, 1961. Bay of Pigs Invasion.

The large-scale ways in which WWII changed the world are well-known: the Holocaust’s decimation of Jewish people and culture, the use of atomic bombs on Japan, and the wide swath of death and destruction caused by the Axis powers in Europe. But there are also more indirect ways that WWII impacted modern society.

The study found that living in a war-torn country during World War II was consistently associated with having poorer health later in life. Those respondents who experienced war were 3 percentage points more likely to have diabetes as adults and 5.8 percentage points more likely to have depression.

The major causes of World War II were numerous. They include the impact of the Treaty of Versailles following WWI, the worldwide economic depression, failure of appeasement, the rise of militarism in Germany and Japan, and the failure of the League of Nations. Then, on September 1, 1939, German troops invaded Poland.

What were the major immediate and long term effects of WWII? -Immediate: Europe and Japan lay in ruins, Cold War, America becomes a superpower, Soviet Union took over Eastern Europe. -Long term: European colonies became independent, US government guides American economy.

After the end of the war, a conference was held in Potsdam, Germany, to set up peace treaties . The countries that fought with Hitler lost territory and had to pay reparations to the Allies . Germany and its capital Berlin were divided into four parts. Austria was also occupied by the four Allies from 1945 to 1955.

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America’s response to World War II was the most extraordinary mobilization of an idle economy in the history of the world. During the war 17 million new civilian jobs were created, industrial productivity increased by 96 percent, and corporate profits after taxes doubled.

The United States benefitted the most from WWII as it had a large population, technological prowess, and the capital necessary to change WWII machinations into business and industry that benefited the civilian. Europe saw great growth post-WWII, it just happened slower than it did in The United States and Japan.

Driven by growing consumer demand, as well as the continuing expansion of the military-industrial complex as the Cold War ramped up, the United States reached new heights of prosperity in the years after World War II.

That a Europe more prosperous than ever would emerge from this apocalypse astonished the world. Most economies shattered by war returned to pre-war levels of output within five years.

Homeownership after World War II increased because of government policy, economic booms, and suburbanization. There were certain reasons including: 1. Mortgages paid over longer time periods were available.

One of the factors that fueled the prosperity of the ’50s was the increase in consumer spending. Americans enjoyed a standard of living that no other country could approach. The adults of the ’50s had grown up in general poverty during the Great Depression and then rationing during World War II.

The United States was the world’s strongest military power. Its economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperity–new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods–were available to more people than ever before. However, the 1950s were also an era of great conflict.

Other forms of 1950s popular culture, such as movies and television, sought to entertain, while reinforcing values such as religious faith, patriotism, and conformity to societal norms.

The 50’s was an era called the Golden Age of Capitalism, a period of unprecedented economic growth that benefited both the capitalists and workers, as result of higher wages.

The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the “Fifties” or the ” ’50s”) (among other variants) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959.

The period from 1950 to 1970 is often referred to as the Golden Age of American capitalism. Real per capita income grew in those years at 2.25 percent a year, and prosperity was democratized as huge numbers of Americans entered the middle class.

Rhythm and Blues artists were mostly African American, while white singers were pushed towards rock by their producers. Rhythm was a form of jazz with a more upbeat tone. ! 950’s rhythm combined doo-wop, jazz, blues, and gospel. Drive in theaters became popular in the 1950’s with the younger population.

1950 Year In History including South Africa the Group Areas Act creates Apartheid, NATO Created, China invades Tibet, McCarthy Begins his Persecution of Communists, US Leads World in Korean War following North Korea invasion of South Korea, James Dean big break comes with Pepsi Commercial.