World War II

(proper noun)

The war from 1939 to 1945 of the Allied forces, including United Kingdom, Soviet Union, the United States, France, and China against the Axis Powers, including Germany, Italy, and Japan.

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Examples of World War II in the following topics:

  • Mobilization and the Development of the West

    • During World War II, traditional gender roles changed, as women entered the traditionally male workforce and served in the military.
    • In all, 350,000 American women served in the U.S. military during World War II.
    • Asian-Pacific-American women first entered military service during World War II.
    • The navy refused to accept Japanese-American women throughout World War II.
    • By the end of World War II, 85% of the enlisted personnel assigned to Headquarters U.S.

  • Hispanics in WWII

    • Armed Forces and on the home front during World War II.
    • Armed Forces during World War II, out of a total of 12,000,000, constituting 2.3% to 4.7% of the U.S.
    • Only a small number of Hispanic women joined the military before World War II.
    • However, with the outbreak of World War II, cultural norms began to change.
    • The American GI Forum was started to ensure the rights of Hispanic World War II veterans.

  • Japanese Art after World War II

    • After World War II, Japanese artists became preoccupied with the mechanisms of urban life and moved from abstraction to anime-influenced art.
    • Welcoming the new post-World War II period of Japanese history, the government-sponsored Japan Art Academy (Nihon Geijutsuin) was formed in 1947.
    • After World War II, painters, calligraphers, and printmakers flourished in the big cities—particularly Tokyo—and became preoccupied with the mechanisms of urban life, reflected in the flickering lights, neon colors, and frenetic pace of their abstractions.
    • Styles of the New York-Paris art world were fervently embraced.
    • Describe the flourishing of painting, calligraphy, and printmaking after World War II

  • The Final Ledger of Deaths

    • While estimates remain controversial and statistics unreliable, World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history, with around 50 - 80 million people killed.
    • World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history in absolute terms of total dead.
    • However, no positive or specific customary international humanitarian law with respect to aerial warfare existed before or during World War II.
    • World War II was devastating for both the Allied and Axis nations.
    • Summarize the final ledger of military and civilian deaths of World War II.

  • Casualties of World War II

    • Some 75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians, many of whom died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.
    • Of the total number of deaths in World War II, approximately 85 per cent—mostly Soviet and Chinese—were on the Allied side and 15 per cent were on the Axis side.
    • However, no positive or specific customary international humanitarian law with respect to aerial warfare existed before or during World War II.
    • Sixty per cent of Soviet POWs of the Germans died during the war.
    • Estimates suggest that some 75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians.

  • Peacetime Economy

    • The end of World War II was followed by an uneasy transition from war to a peacetime economy.
    • The decline in government spending, at the end of World War II in 1945, led to an enormous drop in gross domestic product, making this technically a recession.
    • The post-war years were unusual in a number of ways, unemployment was never high, and this era may be considered a "sui generis end-of-the-war recession," or a very unique type of recession.
    • Generally speaking, the period from the end of World War II to the early 1970s was a golden era of American capitalism. $200 billion in war bonds matured, and the G.I.
    • Although no recession of the post-World War II era has come anywhere near the depth of the Great Depression, this graph shows that the recession during the transition to a peacetime economy during the Truman administration was significant.

  • Changing Roles for Women

    • During World War II, the traditional gender division of labor changed, as the "home" or domestic female sphere expanded to include the "home front".
    • Over 60 thousand Army nurses (all military nurses were female then) served stateside and overseas during World War II.
    • The Navy refused to accept Japanese-American women throughout World War II.
    • By the end of World War II, 85 percent of the enlisted personnel assigned to Headquarters U.S.
    • Women joined the federal government in massive numbers during World War II.

  • American Indians and the War Effort

    • Some 44,000 Native Americans served in the United States military during World War II, which was one-third of all able-bodied Indian men.
    • Some 44,000 American Indians served in the United States military during World War II.
    • Whether it was due to innate skill as warriors or merely as a reflection of the stereotype of the American Indian warrior spirit perpetuated by American popular culture, American Indian men were generally highly regarded for their military service in World War II.
    • While the term code talkers is strongly associated with the bilingual Navajo speakers, code talking was pioneered by Cherokee and Choctaw Indians during World War I.
    • Other American Indian code talkers were deployed by the United States Army during World War II, including Lakota, Meskwaki, and Comanche soldiers.

  • Superpower Rivalry

    • The United States and Soviet Union eventually emerged as the two major superpowers after World War II.
    • World War II had served to enhance U.S. global power.
    • As the majority of World War II had been fought far from its national boundaries, the United States had not suffered the industrial destruction or massive civilian casualties that marked the wartime situation of the countries in Europe or Asia.
    • Similarly, the war had reinforced the position of the United States as the world's largest long-term creditor nation and its principal supplier of goods.
    • Evaluate the theory of a bipolar post-war world dominated by two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union

  • World War II

    • On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and Britain and France subsequently declared war on Germany, marking the start of World War II .
    • Interventionists were afraid of a world after this war, a world where they would have to coexist with the fascist power of Europe.
    • Non-interventionists rooted a significant portion of their arguments in historical precedent, citing events such as Washington's farewell address and the failure of World War I.
    • During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
    • Compare and contrast the arguments made by interventionists and non-interventionists with respect to American involvement in World War II