HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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The nations of the world agreed to live in peace and never ever fight another war with pinky promises
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Anti-Semitic behavior was ended once and for all.
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Germany and Japan no longer exist as countries. They are now called Scandinavia and Asia minor.
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Americans learned to think in global terms.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -World War I marked the first time American women formally served in the armed forces. That sacrifice and service helped win the war and win women the U.S. suffrage movement and the federal right to vote with the 19th Amendment.
Detailed explanation-4: -The U.S. entry into the war helped to get the nation’s economy back on its feet following the depression. Although just ten years earlier, jobs were very difficult to come by, there were now jobs for nearly everyone who wanted one.