can anyone tell me the effects of world war II that still impact today?

Answer 1

Thats a big topic that you really can't get a simple list of 5 or 6 items, but the ripples from WWII are still felt very much today all over the world, just as those of the American Civil war still effect the US today.
Here are a few I think are significant and obvious:

1. The returning of the Jewish People to the Ancient homeland
2. US being involved in world events and politics
3. change over from rural farms to suburban life styles in the US and other world powers (England,Germany,japan)
4. the highway system in developed countries
5 rapid, commercial growth in many countries.

Answer 2

Something that hasn't yet been brought up is the effect upon the American economy and the changing of the American education program/socio-economic class structure. After the war GI's came back and started the move from a rural community to a more urban one. They also came home wanting (or maybe not wanting but unable/unwilling to prevent) families. The birth rate in 1946 soared, and five years later in 1951 the education system was inundated with new kindergartners wanting a place to go to school and finding the schools woefully equipped to allow them that opportunity. The response to this was less then adequate, and has contributed to the problems within the public school system that the U.S. still has today. Other than that, I agree with others, the cold war and the fall of the Soviet Union, the massive amount of debt that the U.S. is in right now. the changed economic landscape in the world- the UK no longer an imperial power (holder of other proprieties like Hong Kong) in the world. I hope that that helps.

Answer 3

To simplify, the entire western and second world are totally different because of WWII. Borders were changed, technology evolved, alliances were forged which either remain or not but regardless todays' world reflects the changes brought about by WWII.

This is not even considering "what might have been", if the war went the other way and Japan and Germany were the victors. Because of WWII, the USSR existed with huge power and resources, so that was a direct result of the Allies winning the war.

I can think of few places on the earth not influenced by that war and/or its outcome. And yes, the French had their asses saved again, but are still weenies.

Answer 4

The end of colonialization (which began in the mid-50's, generally) resulted in a situation where a "vacuum" of power was created in countries such as Algeria (the entire continent of Africa), the middle-east (Palestine), the far East (French-Indochina or Viet Nam.....Indiginous movements either supported by or directly aided by the US or the USSR seemed to carve up the world into "The RED Menace" and everything that the US thought would be overrun by communism. Luckily, a World War was averted by uprisings of E. European countries and the fall of the then Soviet Union around late 1980's to early 1990's.

Today, however, Russia is flexing its muscles in previous lands that were once part of its empire. Both the US and Russia are struggling in this new Islamofascist war. Other countries, particularly in Africa and the far east, still are politically and militarily unstable.

Answer 5

My partners father was a prisoner of war. He was taken prisoner by the Japanese. He was one of the survivors of Changie, he helped to build the Burma Railway bridge. While in the prison camps his job was to catch rats to sustain the other prisoners.
On his release he was very much a changed man. He never talked much not even to his family (children and wife) He disciplined in a violent way and could not stand disobedience.
My partners mother suffered from a nervous breakdown, which could be contributed to the relationship, this impacted on the children as their father was in no way fit to look after the kids, they were looked after by friends of the family.
It is not something that any of them like to talk about and I have put this together from snipe ts of things that have been talked about and also from friends of the family. As both my partners Mother and Father are both dead.

Answer 6

Limited military buildup in both Germany and Japan. U.S. military bases in both countries. U.S. Naval bases strung through teh Pacific Ocean. The emergence of the United Nations (not a good thing). Settlement of European Jews along the West Bank and the creation of Israel. All things resulting from WWII.

Answer 7

One of the worst effects was the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by jewish terrorists and the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. This has led to war and unrest in the Middle East ever since

Answer 8

Referring only to previous answers: the Americans arrived late, pushed over the already punch-drunk, doddering aggressor, then took ALL the credit, and the national wealth of the people who did the real fighting.

Seriously, the transfer of the wealth of the European empires to the United States allowed them to take all the wealth and prestige of several European countries.

Answer 9

Nuclear power and weapons

The French are still weenies

Look up Cargo Cult on google...

Millions of people died way too soon...what artists, statesmen, inventors, doctors did the world never see because they were killed?

Answer 10

the radiation that was released from the bombs that were drop in nagasaki and hiroshima are still there