Events after the end of the war in 1945
The
aftermath of World War II
saw the rise of two global
superpowers
, the
Soviet Union
(USSR) and the
United States
(US). The aftermath of
World War II
was also defined by the rising threat of
nuclear warfare
, the creation and implementation of the
United Nations
as an
intergovernmental organization
, and the
decolonization
of
Asia
and
Africa
by
European
and
East Asian
powers, most notably by the
United Kingdom
,
France
, and
Japan
.
Once allies during World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union became competitors on the world stage and engaged in the
Cold War
, so called because it never resulted in overt, declared total war between the two powers. It was instead characterized by
espionage
,
political subversion
and
proxy wars
.
Western Europe
and Asia were rebuilt through the American
Marshall Plan
, whereas
Central and Eastern Europe
fell under the
Soviet sphere of influence
and eventually behind an "
Iron Curtain
". Europe was divided into a US-led
Western Bloc
and a USSR-led
Eastern Bloc
. Internationally, alliances with the two blocs gradually shifted, with some nations trying to stay out of the Cold War through the
Non-Aligned Movement
. The war also saw a
nuclear arms race
between the two superpowers; part of the reason that the Cold War never became a "hot" war was that the Soviet Union and the United States had nuclear deterrents against each other, leading to a
mutually assured destruction
standoff.
As a consequence of the war, the Allies created the
United Nations
, an organization for international cooperation and diplomacy, similar to the
League of Nations
. Members of the United Nations agreed to outlaw
wars of aggression
in an attempt to avoid a
third world war
. The devastated great powers of Western Europe formed the
European Coal and Steel Community
, which later evolved into the
European Economic Community
and ultimately into the current
European Union
. This effort primarily began as an attempt to avoid another war between
Germany
and
France
by economic cooperation and integration, and a common market for important natural resources.
The end of the war opened the way for decolonization from the great powers. Independence was granted to
India
and
Pakistan
(from the United Kingdom),
Indonesia
(from the
Netherlands
), the
Philippines
(from the US) and a number of
Arab nations
, from specific mandates which had been granted to great powers from
League of Nations Mandates
and in addition to the establishment of
Israel
(from the United Kingdom and United States). Independence for the nations of
Sub-Saharan Africa
came in the 1960s.
The aftermath of World War II saw the rise of communist influence in East Asia, with the
People's Republic of China
, as the
Chinese Communist Party
emerged
victorious
from the
Chinese Civil War
in 1949.
Immediate effects of World War II
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At the end of the war, millions of people were dead and millions more homeless, the European economies had collapsed, and much of Europe's industrial infrastructure had been destroyed. The German people as a whole, but its youth in particular, ended up being deeply scorched psychologically by the ordeal which they went through during the previous decade, from the time when the
Nazis
took power promising them a thousand years of world dominance, until their major cities were destroyed, turned to rubble by the
Allied
bombardments.
[1]
The trauma caused to them was multifaceted as it permeated all levels of society, by means of the systematic
Nazification
of the country with the strategic creation of the
Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
which tookover the media and all institutions, and put in place the systematic
indoctrination of the very young
via the creation of the
Hitler Youth
, the
Deutsches Jungvolk
, the
League of German Girls
and the
Jungmadelbund
. Then by the end of the war, once their major cities were devastated, ensued a widespread famine, which was followed by the wave of
denazification
which swept throughout their humiliated country, ending with the pervasive shame of their parents who believed in the illusive promises of their defeated
Fuhrer
.
The
Soviet Union
, too, had been heavily affected. In response, in 1947,
U.S. Secretary of State
George Marshall
devised the "European Recovery Program", which became known as the
Marshall Plan
. Under the plan, during 1948?1952 the
United States government
allocated US$13 billion (US$177 billion in 2023 dollars) for the reconstruction of the affected countries of
Western Europe
.
United Kingdom
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By the end of the war, the economy of the
United Kingdom
was one of severe privation. More than a quarter of its national wealth had been consumed. Until the introduction in 1941 of
Lend-Lease
aid from the US, the UK had been spending its assets to purchase American equipment including aircraft and ships?over £437 million on aircraft alone. Lend-Lease came just before its reserves were exhausted. Britain had placed 55% of its total labour force into war production.
In spring 1945, the
Labour Party
withdrew from the wartime coalition government, in an effort to oust
Winston Churchill
, forcing a
general election
. Following a landslide victory, Labour held more than 60% of the seats in the
House of Commons
and formed a new government on 26 July 1945 under
Clement Attlee
.
Britain's war debt was described by some in the American administration as a "millstone round the neck of the British economy". Although there were suggestions for an international conference to tackle the issue, in August 1945 the U.S. announced unexpectedly that the Lend-Lease programme was to end immediately.
The abrupt withdrawal of American Lend-Lease support to Britain on 2 September 1945 dealt a severe blow to the plans of the new government. It was only with the completion of the
Anglo-American loan
by the United States to Great Britain on 15 July 1946 that some measure of economic stability was restored. However, the loan was made primarily to support British overseas expenditure in the immediate post-war years and not to implement the Labour government's policies for domestic welfare reforms and the
nationalisation
of key industries. Although the loan was agreed on reasonable terms, its conditions included what proved to be damaging fiscal conditions for
sterling
. From 1946 to 1948, the UK introduced bread rationing, which it had never done during the war.
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[3]
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Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union suffered enormous losses in the war against Germany. The Soviet population
decreased by about 27 million
during the war; of these, 8.7 million were combat deaths. The 19 million non-combat deaths had a variety of causes: starvation in the
siege of Leningrad
; conditions in German prisons and concentration camps; mass shootings of civilians; harsh labour in German industry; famine and disease; conditions in Soviet camps; and service in German or German-controlled military units fighting the Soviet Union.
[6]
The population would not return to its pre-war level for 30 years.
[7]
Soviet ex-
POWs
and civilians repatriated from abroad were suspected of having been Nazi collaborators, and 226,127 of them were sent to forced labour camps after scrutiny by Soviet intelligence,
NKVD
. Many ex-POWs and young civilians were also conscripted to serve in the Red Army. Others worked in labour battalions to rebuild infrastructure destroyed during the war.
[8]
[9]
The economy had been devastated. Roughly a quarter of the Soviet Union's capital resources were destroyed, and industrial and agricultural output in 1945 fell far short of pre-war levels. To help rebuild the country, the Soviet government obtained limited credits from Britain and Sweden; it refused assistance offered by the United States under the Marshall Plan. Instead, the Soviet Union coerced Soviet-occupied Central and Eastern Europe to supply machinery and raw materials. Germany and former Nazi satellites made reparations to the Soviet Union. The reconstruction programme emphasised heavy industry to the detriment of agriculture and consumer goods. By 1953, steel production was twice its 1940 level, but the production of many consumer goods and foodstuffs was lower than it had been in the late 1920s.
[10]
The immediate post-war period in Europe was dominated by the Soviet Union
annexing
, or converting into
Soviet Socialist Republics
,
[11]
[13]
all the countries invaded and annexed by the
Red Army
driving the Germans out of central and eastern Europe. New
satellite states
were set up by the Soviets in
Poland
,
Bulgaria
,
Hungary
,
[
page needed
]
Czechoslovakia
,
Romania
,
[17]
Albania
,
and
East Germany
; the last of these was created from the
Soviet zone of occupation
in Germany.
Yugoslavia
emerged as an independent Communist state allied but not aligned with the Soviet Union, owing to the independent nature of the military victory of the
Partisans
of
Josip Broz Tito
during
World War II in Yugoslavia
. The Allies established the
Far Eastern Commission
and Allied Council for
Japan
to administer their occupation of that country while the establishment
Allied Control Council
, administered occupied Germany. In accordance with the
Potsdam Conference
agreements, the Soviet Union occupied and subsequently annexed the strategic island of
Sakhalin
.
Germany
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In the east, the
Sudetenland
reverted to Czechoslovakia following the
European Advisory Commission
's decision to delimit German territory to be the territory it held on 31 December 1937. Close to one-quarter of pre-war (1937)
Nazi Germany
was
de facto
annexed by the Allies; roughly 10 million Germans were either expelled from this territory or not permitted to return to it if they had fled during the war. The remainder of Germany was partitioned into four zones of occupation, coordinated by the
Allied Control Council
. The
Saar
was detached and put in economic union with France in 1947. In 1949, the
Federal Republic of Germany
was created out of the Western zones. The Soviet zone became the
German Democratic Republic
.
Germany paid
reparations
to the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union, mainly in the form of
dismantled factories
,
forced labour
, and coal. The German
standard of living
was to be reduced to its 1932 level.
[20]
Beginning immediately after the German surrender and continuing for the next two years, the US and Britain pursued an "intellectual reparations" programme to harvest all technological and scientific know-how as well as all patents in Germany. The value of these amounted to around US$10 billion
(US$156 billion in 2023 dollars). In accordance with the
Paris Peace Treaties, 1947
, reparations were also assessed from the countries of
Italy
,
Romania
,
Hungary
,
Bulgaria
, and
Finland
.
US policy in post-war Germany from April 1945 until July 1947 had been that no help should be given to the Germans in rebuilding their nation, save for the minimum required to mitigate starvation. The Allies' immediate post-war "industrial disarmament" plan for Germany had been to destroy Germany's capability to wage war by complete or partial de-industrialization. The first industrial plan for Germany, signed in 1946, required the destruction of 1,500 manufacturing plants to lower German heavy industry output to roughly 50% of its 1938 level. Dismantling of West German industry ended in 1951. By 1950, equipment had been removed from 706
manufacturing plants
, and steel production capacity had been reduced by 6.7 million tons.
[22]
After lobbying by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff
and Generals
Lucius D. Clay
and
George Marshall
, the
Truman administration
accepted that economic recovery in Europe could not go forward without the
reconstruction of the German industrial base
on which it had previously been dependent.
[23]
In July 1947, President Truman rescinded on "national security grounds"
[24]
the directive that had ordered the US occupation forces to "take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany." A new directive recognised that "[a]n orderly, prosperous Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive Germany."
[25]
From mid-1946 onwards Germany received US government aid through the
GARIOA
programme. From 1948 onwards West Germany also became a minor beneficiary of the Marshall Plan. Volunteer organisations had initially been forbidden to send food, but in early 1946 the
Council of Relief Agencies Licensed to Operate in Germany
was founded. The prohibition against sending
CARE Packages
to individuals in Germany was rescinded on 5 June 1946.
After the German surrender, the
International Red Cross
was prohibited from providing aid such as food or visiting POW camps for Germans inside Germany. However, after making approaches to the Allies in the autumn of 1945 it was allowed to investigate the camps in the UK and French occupation zones of Germany, as well as to provide relief to the prisoners held there. On 4 February 1946, the Red Cross was also permitted to visit and assist prisoners in the U.S. occupation zone of Germany, although only with very small quantities of food. The Red Cross petitioned successfully for improvements to be made in the living conditions of German POWs.
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France
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As
France was liberated
from German occupation, an
epuration
(purge) of real and suspected Nazi collaborators began. At first this was undertaken in an extralegal manner by the French Resistance (called the
epuration sauvage
, "wild purge"). French women who had had romantic liaisons with German soldiers were publicly humiliated and had their heads shaved. There were also a wave of summary executions estimated to have killed about 10,000 people.
When the
Provisional Government of the French Republic
established control, the
Epuration legale
("legal purge") began. There were no international war crimes trials for French collaborators, who were tried in the domestic courts. Approximately 300,000 cases were investigated; 120,000 people were given various sentences including 6,763 death sentences (of which only 791 were carried out). Most convicts were given amnesty a few years later.
Italy
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The aftermath of World War II left Italy with an anger against the monarchy for its endorsement of the
Fascist regime
for the previous twenty years. These frustrations contributed to a revival of the Italian republican movement.
[27]
In the
1946 Italian constitutional referendum
, held on 2 June, a day celebrated since as
Festa della Repubblica
, the
Italian monarchy
was abolished, having been associated with the deprivations of the war and the Fascist rule, especially in the
North
, and Italy became a republic. This was the first time that Italian women voted at the national level, and the second time overall considering the local elections that were held a few months earlier in some cities.
[28]
[29]
King
Victor Emmanuel III
's son, King
Umberto II
, was forced to abdicate and exiled. The
Republican Constitution
was approved on 1 January 1948, resulting from the work of a
Constituent Assembly
formed by the representatives of all the
anti-fascist
forces that contributed to the defeat of Nazi and Fascist forces during the
liberation of Italy
.
[30]
Unlike in Germany and Japan, no
war crimes tribunals
were held against Italian military and political leaders, though the
Italian resistance
summarily executed
some of them (such as
Mussolini
) at the end of the war; the
Togliatti amnesty
, taking its name from the Communist Party secretary at the time, pardoned all wartime common and political crimes in 1946.
The 1947,
Treaty of Peace with Italy
spelled the end of the
Italian colonial empire
, along with other border revisions, like the transfer of the
Italian Islands of the Aegean
to the
Kingdom of Greece
and the transfer to
France
of
Briga
and
Tenda
, as well than to minor revisions of the Franco-Italian border. Moreover, under the Treaty of Peace with Italy,
Istria
,
Kvarner
, most of the
Julian March
as well as the
Dalmatian
city of
Zara
was annexed by
Yugoslavia
causing the
Istrian-Dalmatian exodus
, which led to the emigration of between 230,000 and 350,000 of local ethnic
Italians
(
Istrian Italians
and
Dalmatian Italians
), the others being ethnic Slovenians, ethnic Croatians, and ethnic
Istro-Romanians
, choosing to maintain Italian citizenship,
[31]
towards Italy, and in smaller numbers, towards the
Americas
,
Australia
and
South Africa
.
[32]
[33]
The 1947 Treaty of Peace compelled Italy to pay $360 million (US dollars at 1938 prices) in
war reparations
: $125 million to Yugoslavia, $105 million to
Greece
, $100 million to the
Soviet Union
, $25 million to
Ethiopia
and $5 million to
Albania
. In 1954 the
Free Territory of Trieste
, an independent territory between northern Italy and Yugoslavia under
direct responsibility
of the
United Nations Security Council
, was divided between the two states, Italy and Yugoslavia. The Italian border that applies today has existed since 1975, when
Trieste
was formally re-annexed to Italy after the
Treaty of Osimo
. In 1950,
Italian Somaliland
was made a
United Nations Trust Territory
under Italian administration until 1 July 1960.
Austria
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The
Federal State of Austria
had been annexed by Germany in 1938 (
Anschluss
, this union was banned by the
Treaty of Versailles
). Austria (called
Ostmark
by the Germans) was separated from Germany and divided into four zones of occupation. With the
Austrian State Treaty
, these zones reunited in 1955 to become the
Republic of Austria
.
Japan
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After the war, the Allies rescinded
Japanese Empire
pre-war annexations such as
Manchuria
, and
Korea
became militarily occupied by the United States in the
south
and by the Soviet Union in the
north
. The Philippines and
Guam
were returned to the United States. Burma, Malaya, and Singapore were returned to Britain and Indochina back to France. The Dutch East Indies was to be handed back to the Dutch but was resisted leading to the Indonesian war for independence. At the
Yalta Conference
,
US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
had secretly traded the Japanese Kurils and south Sakhalin to the Soviet Union in return for Soviet entry in the war with Japan.
[34]
The Soviet Union annexed the
Kuril Islands
, provoking the
Kuril Islands dispute
, which is ongoing, as Russia continues to occupy the islands.
Hundreds of thousands of Japanese were forced to relocate to the Japanese main islands. Okinawa became a main US staging point. The US covered large areas of it with military bases and continued to occupy it until 1972, years after the end of the occupation of the main islands. The bases still remain. To skirt the
Geneva Convention
, the Allies classified many Japanese soldiers as
Japanese Surrendered Personnel
(JSP) instead of POWs and used them as forced labour until 1947. The UK, France, and the Netherlands used JSP to support their military operations in the region after World War II. General
Douglas MacArthur
established the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
. The Allies collected reparations from Japan.
To further remove Japan as a potential future military threat, the
Far Eastern Commission
decided to de-industrialise Japan, with the goal of reducing Japanese standard of living to what prevailed between 1930 and 1934.
[35]
[36]
In the end, the de-industrialisation programme in Japan was implemented to a lesser degree than the one in Germany.
[35]
Japan received emergency aid from
GARIOA
, as did Germany. In early 1946, the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia were formed and permitted to supply Japanese with food and clothes. In April 1948 the Johnston Committee Report recommended that the economy of Japan should be reconstructed due to the high cost to US taxpayers of continuous emergency aid.
Survivors of the
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
, known as
hibakusha
(被爆者), were ostracized by Japanese society. Japan provided no special assistance to these people until 1952.
[37]
By the 65th anniversary of the bombings, total casualties from the initial attack and later deaths reached about 270,000 in Hiroshima
[38]
and 150,000 in Nagasaki.
[39]
About 230,000 hibakusha were still alive as of 2010
[update]
,
[38]
and about 2,200 were suffering from radiation-caused illnesses as of 2007
[update]
.
[40]
Finland
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In the
Winter War
of 1939?1940, the Soviet Union invaded neutral
Finland
and annexed some of its territory.
From 1941 until 1944
, Finland aligned itself with Nazi Germany in a failed effort to regain lost territories from the Soviets. Finland retained its independence following the war but remained subject to
Soviet-imposed constraints
in its domestic affairs.
The Baltic states
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In 1940 the Soviet Union invaded and annexed the neutral
Baltic states
,
Estonia
,
Latvia
, and
Lithuania
. In June 1941, the Soviet governments of the Baltic states carried out
mass deportations
of "enemies of the people"; as a result, many treated the invading Nazis as liberators when they invaded only a week later. The
Atlantic Charter
promised self-determination to people deprived of it during the war. The
British Prime Minister
,
Winston Churchill
, argued for a weaker interpretation of the Charter to permit the Soviet Union to continue to control the Baltic states.
[41]
In March 1944 the U.S. accepted Churchill's view that the Atlantic Charter did not apply to the Baltic states.
[41]
With the return of Soviet troops at the end of the war, the
Forest Brothers
mounted a
guerrilla war
. This continued until the mid-1950s.
The Philippines
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An estimated one million military and civilian Filipinos were killed from all causes; of these 131,028 were listed as killed in seventy-two
war crime
events. According to a United States analysis released years after the war, U.S. casualties were 10,380 dead and 36,550 wounded; Japanese dead were 255,795.
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Population displacement
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As a result of the new borders drawn by the victorious nations, large populations suddenly found themselves in hostile territory. The Soviet Union took over areas formerly controlled by Germany, Finland, Poland, and Japan. Poland lost the
Kresy
region (about half of its pre-War territory) and received
most of Germany east
of the
Oder-Neisse line
, including the industrial regions of
Silesia
. The German state of the Saar was temporarily a protectorate of France but later returned to German administration. As set forth at Potsdam, approximately 12 million people were expelled from Germany, including seven million from Germany proper, and three million from the
Sudetenland
.
During the war, the United States government interned approximately 110,000
Japanese Americans
and
Japanese
who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States in the wake of
Imperial Japan
's
attack on Pearl Harbor
.
[43]
[44]
Canada interned
approximately 22,000 Japanese Canadians, 14,000 of whom were born in Canada. After the war, some internees chose to return to Japan, while most remained in North America.
Poland
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The Soviet Union expelled at least 2 million Poles from the east of the new border approximating the
Curzon Line
. This estimate is uncertain as neither the Polish Communist government or the Soviet government kept track of the number of expelled people. The number of Polish citizens inhabiting Polish borderlands (
Kresy
region) was about 13 million before
World War II
broke out according to official Polish statistics. Polish citizens killed in the war that originated from the Polish borderlands territory (killed by either the German Nazi regime or the Soviet regime, or expelled to distant parts of
Siberia
) were accounted as Russian, Ukrainian or Belarusian casualties of war in official Soviet historiography. This fact imposes additional difficulties in making the correct estimation of the number of Polish citizens forcibly transferred after the war.
[45]
The border change also reversed the results of the 1919?1920
Polish-Soviet War
. Former Polish cities such as
Lwow
came under control of the
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
. Additionally, the Soviet Union transferred more than two million people within their own borders; these included Germans, Finns,
Crimean Tatars
, and
Chechens
.
Rape during occupation
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In Europe
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As Soviet troops marched across the Balkans, they committed rapes and robberies in
Romania
,
Hungary
,
Czechoslovakia
and Yugoslavia.
The population of Bulgaria was largely spared of this treatment, possibly due to a sense of ethnic kinship or to the leadership of Marshal
Fyodor Tolbukhin
.
The population of Germany was treated significantly worse.
Rape and murder of German civilians was as bad as, and sometimes worse than, Nazi propaganda had anticipated.
[48]
[49]
Political officers encouraged Soviet troops to seek revenge and terrorise the German population.
[50]
On "the basis of
Hochrechnungen
(projections or estimations)", "1.9 million German women altogether were raped at the end of the war by Red Army soldiers."
[51]
[52]
[53]
About one-third of all German women in Berlin were raped by Soviet forces.
[51]
A substantial minority was raped multiple times.
[53]
[54]
In Berlin, contemporary hospital records indicate between 95,000 and 130,000 women were raped by Soviet troops.
[53]
About 10,000 of these women died, mostly by suicide.
[51]
[53]
Over 4.5 million Germans fled towards the West.
[55]
The Soviets initially had no rules against their troops "fraternising" with German women, but by 1947 they started to isolate their troops from the German population in an attempt to stop rape and robbery by the troops.
Not all Soviet soldiers participated in these activities.
Foreign reports of Soviet brutality were denounced
[
by whom?
]
as false.
Rape, robbery, and murder were blamed on German bandits impersonating Soviet soldiers.
Some justified Soviet brutality towards German civilians based on previous brutality of German troops toward Russian civilians.
Until the reunification of Germany, East German histories virtually ignored the actions of Soviet troops, and Russian histories still tend to do so.
Reports of mass rapes by Soviet troops were often dismissed as anti-Communist propaganda or the normal byproduct of war.
[51]
Rapes also occurred under other Allied forces in Europe, though the majority were committed by Soviet troops.
[54]
In a letter to the editor of
Time
published in September 1945, a
United States Army
sergeant
wrote, "Our own Army and the British Army along with ours have done their share of looting and raping ... This offensive attitude among our troops is not at all general, but the percentage is large enough to have given our Army a pretty black name, and we too are considered an army of rapists."
[62]
Robert Lilly's analysis of military records led him to conclude about 14,000 rapes occurred in Britain, France, and Germany at the hands of US soldiers between 1942 and 1945.
[63]
Lilly assumed that only 5% of rapes by American soldiers were reported, making 17,000 GI rapes a possibility, while analysts estimate that 50% of (ordinary peacetime) rapes are reported.
[64]
Supporting Lilly's lower figure is the "crucial difference" that for World War II military rapes "it was the commanding officer, not the victim, who brought charges".
[64]
According to German historian
Miriam Gebhardt
, as many as 190,000 women were raped by U.S. soldiers in Germany.
[65]
German soldiers left many
war children
behind in nations such as France and Denmark, which were occupied for an extended period. After the war, the children and their mothers often suffered recriminations. In Norway, the "Tyskerunger" (German-kids) suffered greatly.
[66]
[67]
During the Italian campaign, the
Goumiers
, French Moroccan colonial troops attached to the French Expeditionary Forces, have been accused of committing rape and murder against the Italian peasant communities, mostly targeting civilian women and girls, as well as a few men and boys.
[68]
[
unreliable source?
]
In Italy the victims of these acts were described as
Marocchinate
meaning literally "Moroccaned" (or people who have been subjected to acts committed by Moroccans). According to Italian victims associations, a total of more than 7,000 civilians, including children, were raped by Goumiers.
[69]
In Japan
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In the first few weeks of the American military occupation of Japan, rape and other violent crime was widespread in naval ports like Yokohama and Yokosuka but declined shortly afterward. There were 1,336 reported rapes during the first 10 days of the occupation of Kanagawa prefecture.
[70]
Historian Toshiyuki Tanaka relates that in Yokohama, the capital of the prefecture, there were 119 known rapes in September 1945.
[71]
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page needed
]
Historians Eiji Takemae and Robert Ricketts state that "When US paratroopers landed in Sapporo, an orgy of looting, sexual violence, and drunken brawling ensued. Gang rapes and other sex atrocities were not infrequent" and some of the rape victims committed suicide.
[72]
General Robert L. Eichelberger
, the commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, recorded that in the one instance when the Japanese formed a self-help vigilante guard to protect women from off-duty GIs, the Eighth Army ordered armoured vehicles in battle array into the streets and arrested the leaders, and the leaders received long prison terms.
[72]
[73]
According to Takemae and Ricketts, members of the
British Commonwealth Occupation Force
(BCOF) were also involved in rapes:
A former prostitute recalled that as soon as Australian troops arrived in Kure in early 1946, they "dragged young women into their jeeps, took them to the mountain, and then raped them. I heard them screaming for help nearly every night". Such behavior was commonplace, but news of criminal activity by Occupation forces was quickly suppressed.
[72]
Rape committed by U.S. soldiers occupying Okinawa was also a notable phenomenon. Okinawan historian Oshiro Masayasu (former director of the Okinawa Prefectural Historical Archives) writes:
Soon after the U.S. marines landed, all the women of a village on
Motobu Peninsula
fell into the hands of American soldiers. At the time, there were only women, children and old people in the village, as all the young men had been mobilized for the war. Soon after landing, the marines "mopped up" the entire village, but found no signs of Japanese forces. Taking advantage of the situation, they started "hunting for women" in broad daylight and those who were hiding in the village or nearby air raid shelters were dragged out one after another.
[74]
According to Toshiyuki Tanaka, 76 cases of rape or rape-murder were reported during the first five years of the American occupation of Okinawa. However, he claims this is probably not the true figure, as most cases were unreported.
[75]
Comfort women
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]
During World War II the Japanese military established brothels filled with "
comfort women
", a euphemism for the 200,000 girls and women who were forced into
sexual slavery
for Japanese soldiers.
[76]
[77]
In Confucian nations like Korea and China, where premarital sex is considered shameful, the subject of the "comfort women" was ignored for decades after 1945 as the victims were considered pariahs.
[78]
Dutch
comfort women brought a successful case before the Batavia Military Tribunal in 1948.
[79]
Post-war tensions
[
edit
]
Europe
[
edit
]
The alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union began to deteriorate even before the war was over,
[80]
when
Stalin
, Roosevelt, and Churchill exchanged a heated correspondence over whether the
Polish government-in-exile
, backed by Roosevelt and Churchill, or the
Provisional Government
, backed by Stalin, should be recognised. Stalin won.
[81]
A number of allied leaders felt that war between the United States and the Soviet Union was likely. On 19 May 1945, American Under-Secretary of State
Joseph Grew
went so far as to say that it was inevitable.
[82]
[83]
On 5 March 1946, in his
"Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain)
speech at
Westminster College
in
Fulton, Missouri
, Winston Churchill said "a shadow" had fallen over Europe. He described Stalin as having dropped an "
Iron Curtain
" between East and West. Stalin responded by charging that co-existence between communist countries and the West was impossible.
[84]
In mid-1948 the Soviet Union
imposed a blockade on the Western zone of occupation in Berlin
.
Due to the rising tension in Europe and concerns over further Soviet expansion, American planners came up with a contingency plan code-named
Operation Dropshot
in 1949. It considered possible nuclear and conventional war with the Soviet Union and its allies in order to counter a Soviet takeover of Western Europe, the Near East and parts of Eastern Asia that they anticipated would begin around 1957. In response, the US would saturate the Soviet Union with atomic and high-explosive bombs, and then invade and occupy the country.
[85]
In later years, to reduce military expenditures while countering Soviet conventional strength, President
Dwight Eisenhower
would adopt a strategy of
massive retaliation
, relying on the threat of a US nuclear strike to prevent non-nuclear incursions by the Soviet Union in Europe and elsewhere. The approach entailed a major buildup of US nuclear forces and a corresponding reduction in America's non-nuclear ground and naval strength.
[86]
[87]
The Soviet Union viewed these developments as "atomic blackmail".
[88]
In
Greece
,
civil war broke out
in 1946 between Anglo-American-supported royalist forces and
communist-led forces
, with the royalist forces emerging as the victors.
[89]
The US launched a massive programme of military and economic aid to Greece and to neighbouring
Turkey
, arising from a fear that the Soviet Union stood on the verge of breaking through the NATO defence line to the oil-rich
Middle East
. On 12 March 1947, to gain
Congressional
support for the aid, President Truman described the aid as promoting
democracy
in defence of the "
free world
", a principle that became known as the
Truman Doctrine
.
[90]
The US sought to promote an economically strong and politically united Western Europe to counter the threat posed by the Soviet Union. This was done openly using tools such as the
European Recovery Program
, which encouraged European economic integration. The
International Authority for the Ruhr
, designed to keep German industry down and controlled, evolved into the
European Coal and Steel Community
, a founding pillar of the
European Union
. The United States also worked covertly to promote European integration, for example using the
American Committee on United Europe
to funnel funds to European federalist movements. In order to ensure that Western Europe could withstand the Soviet military threat, the
Western European Union
was founded in 1948 and
NATO
in 1949. The first NATO Secretary General,
Lord Ismay
, famously stated the organisation's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down". However, without the manpower and industrial output of
West Germany
no conventional defence of Western Europe had any hope of succeeding. To remedy this, in 1950 the US sought to promote the
European Defence Community
, which would have included a rearmed West Germany. The attempt was dashed when the
French Parliament
rejected it. On 9 May 1955, West Germany was instead admitted to NATO; the immediate result was the creation of the
Warsaw Pact
five days later.
The
Cold War
also saw the creation of propaganda and espionage organisations such as
Radio Free Europe
, the
Information Research Department
, the
Gehlen Organization
, the
Central Intelligence Agency
, the
Special Activities Division
, and the
Ministry for State Security
, as well as the
radicalization
and proliferation of numerous
far-left
and
far-right
terrorist organizations
in Western European countries (
Italy
,
France
,
West Germany
,
Belgium
,
Francoist Spain
, and the
Netherlands
),
[91]
[92]
[93]
[94]
with spillovers in
Northern
and
Southeastern Europe
.
[94]
Asia
[
edit
]
In Asia, the surrender of Japanese forces was complicated by the split between East and West as well as by the movement toward national self-determination in European colonial territories.
India
[
edit
]
Decisions to decolonize
British India
led to an agreement to a partition of the country along religious lines into two independent dominions: India and Pakistan. The partition resulted in communal violence and massive displacements of population. It is often described as the largest mass human migration and one of the largest refugee crises in history.
China
[
edit
]
As agreed to at the
Yalta Conference
, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. Soviet forces
invaded Manchuria
which led to the collapse of the
Manchukuo
and expulsion of all
Japanese settlers from the puppet state
. The Soviet Union dismantled the industrial base in Manchuria that the Japanese had built up and it subsequently became a base for the
Communist
Chinese forces due to the area being under Soviet occupation.
After the end of the war, the
Kuomintang
(KMT) party (led by generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek
) and the Communist Chinese forces resumed
fighting each other
, which they temporarily suspended in order to fight Japan. The fight against the Japanese occupiers had strengthened popular support among the Chinese people for the Communist forces while it weakened the KMT, which depleted its strength fighting them. Full-scale war between the KMT and CCF broke out in June 1946. Despite U.S. support for the Kuomintang, Communist forces ultimately prevailed and they established the
People's Republic of China
(PRC) on the mainland. The KMT forces retreated to the island of
Taiwan
in 1949 where they established the Republic of China (ROC).
With the Communist victory in the civil war, the Soviet Union gave up its claim to military bases in China that were given to it by its Western Allies at the end of World War II.
[
citation needed
]
While large scale hostilities largely ceased by 1950, intermittent clashes occurred between the two from 1950 to 1979. Taiwan unilaterally declared the civil war over in 1991, but no formal peace treaty or truce has been signed and the PRC continues to officially see Taiwan as a breakaway province that rightfully belongs to it.
[
citation needed
]
The outbreak of the
Korean War
a few months after the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War and continued US support for the KMT were the main reasons that prevented the PRC from invading Taiwan.
[
citation needed
]
Korea
[
edit
]
At the
Yalta Conference
, the Allies agreed that an undivided post-war Korea would be placed under four-power multinational trusteeship. After Japan's surrender, this agreement was modified to a
joint Soviet-American occupation
of Korea.
[95]
The agreement was that Korea would be divided and occupied by the Soviets from the north and the Americans from the south.
[96]
Korea, formerly
under Japanese rule
, and which had been partially occupied by the Red Army following the Soviet Union's entry into the war against Japan, was divided at the 38th parallel on the orders of the
US War Department
.
[95]
[97]
A US military government in southern Korea was established in the capital city of
Seoul
.
[98]
[99]
The American military commander,
Lt. Gen.
John R. Hodge
, enlisted many former Japanese administrative officials to serve in this government.
[100]
North of the military line, the Soviets administered the disarming and demobilisation of repatriated Korean nationalist guerrillas who had fought on the side of Chinese nationalists against the Japanese in Manchuria during World War II. Simultaneously, the Soviets enabled a build-up of heavy armaments to pro-communist forces in the north.
[101]
The military line became a political line in 1948, when separate republics emerged on both sides of the 38th parallel, each republic claiming to be the legitimate government of Korea. It culminated in the north invading the south, start of the
Korean War
two years later.
Malaya
[
edit
]
Labour and civil unrest broke out in the
British colony of Malaya
in 1946. A state of emergency was declared by the colonial authorities in 1948 with the outbreak of acts of terrorism. The situation deteriorated into a full-scale anti-colonial insurgency, or Anti-British National Liberation War as the insurgents referred to it, led by the
Malayan National Liberation Army
(MNLA), the military wing of the
Malayan Communist Party
.
[102]
The Malayan Emergency would endure for the next 12 years, ending in 1960. In 1967, communist leader
Chin Peng
reopened hostilities, culminating in a
second emergency
that lasted until 1989.
French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia)
[
edit
]
Events during World War II in the colony of
French Indochina
(consisting of the modern-day states of
Vietnam
,
Laos
and
Cambodia
) set the stage for the
First Indochina War
which in turn led to the
Vietnam War
.
During World War II, the Vichy French aligned colonial authorities cooperated with the Japanese invaders. The communist-controlled
common front
Viet Minh
(supported by the Allies) was formed among the Vietnamese in the colony in 1941 to fight for the independence of Vietnam, against both the Japanese and prewar French powers. After the
Vietnamese Famine of 1945
support for the Viet Minh was bolstered as the front launched a rebellion, sacking rice warehouses and urging the Vietnamese to refuse to pay taxes. Because the French colonial authorities started to hold secret talks with the Free French, the Japanese interned them 9 March 1945. When Japan surrendered in August, this created a power vacuum, and the Viet Minh took power in the
August Revolution
, declaring the independent
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
. However, the Allies (including the Soviet Union) all agreed that the area belonged to the French. Nationalist Chinese forces moved in from the north and British from the south (as the French were unable to do so immediately themselves) and then handed power to the French, a process completed by March 1946. Attempts to integrate the Democratic Republic of Vietnam with French rule failed and the Viet Minh launched their rebellion against the French rule starting the First Indochina War that same year (the Viet Minh organized common fronts to fight the French in Laos and Cambodia).
The war
ended
in 1954 with French withdrawal and a partition of Vietnam that was intended to be temporary until elections could be held. The Democratic Republic of Vietnam held the north while
South Vietnam
formed into a separate republic in control of
Ngo Dinh Diem
who was backed in his refusal to hold elections by the US. The communist party of the south eventually organized the common front
NLF
to fight to unite south and north under the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and thus began the
Vietnam War
, which ended with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
conquering the South
in 1975.
Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)
[
edit
]
Japan
invaded
and
occupied
the
Dutch East Indies
during the war and replaced the colonial government with a new administration. Although the top positions were held by Japanese officers, the internment of all Dutch citizens meant that Indonesians filled many leadership and administrative positions. Following the Japanese surrender in August 1945, Indonesian nationalist leaders such as
Sukarno
and
Mohammad Hatta
declared Indonesia as independent. A four and a half-year struggle followed as the Dutch tried to re-establish their rule in colony, using a significant portion of their Marshall Plan aid to this end.
[103]
The Dutch were aided by British forces for the first phase of the conflict until the United Kingdom withdrew. The British also initially used 35,000
Japanese Surrendered Personnel
to support their military operations in Indonesia. Although Dutch forces re-occupied most of Indonesia, an Indonesian
guerrilla campaign
supported by the majority of Indonesians ensured, and ultimately international opinion favoured independence. In December 1949, the Netherlands formally recognised Indonesian sovereignty.
[
citation needed
]
Covert operations and espionage
[
edit
]
British covert operations in the Baltic States, which began in 1944 against the Nazis, escalated after the war. In
Operation Jungle
, the
Secret Intelligence Service
(known as MI6) recruited and trained Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians for the clandestine work in the Baltic states between 1948 and 1955. Leaders of the operation included
Alfons Rebane
, Stasys ?ymantas, and R?dolfs Silar?js. The agents were transported under the cover of the "British Baltic Fishery Protection Service". They launched from British-occupied Germany, using a converted World War II
E-boat
captained and crewed by former members of the
wartime German navy
.
[105]
British intelligence also trained and infiltrated anti-communist agents into Soviet Union from across the Finnish border, with orders to assassinate Soviet officials.
[106]
In the end, counter-intelligence supplied to the
KGB
by
Kim Philby
allowed the KGB to penetrate and ultimately gain control of MI6's entire intelligence network in the Baltic states.
[107]
Vietnam
and the
Middle East
would later damage the reputation gained by the US during its successes in Europe.
[108]
The KGB believed that the
Third World
rather than Europe was the arena in which it could win the
Cold War
.
[109]
Moscow would in later years fuel an arms buildup in
Africa
. In later years, African countries used as proxies in the Cold War would often become "failed states" of their own.
[108]
In 2014,
The New York Times
reported that "In the decades after World War II, the
Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government's ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show."
[110]
According to
Timothy Naftali
, "The CIA's central concern [in recruiting former Nazi collaborators] was not so much the extent of the criminal's guilt as the likelihood that the agent's criminal past could remain a secret."
[111]
: 365
Recruitment of former enemy scientists
[
edit
]
When the divisions of postwar Europe began to emerge, the war crimes programmes and denazification policies of Britain and the United States were relaxed in favour of recruiting German scientists, especially nuclear and long-range rocket scientists.
[112]
Many of these, prior to their capture, had worked on developing the German V-2 long-range rocket at the Baltic coast German Army Research Center
Peenemunde
. Western Allied occupation force officers in Germany were ordered to refuse to cooperate with the Soviets in sharing captured wartime secret weapons,
[113]
the recovery for which, specifically in regards to advanced German aviation technology and personnel, the British had sent the
Fedden Mission
into Germany to contact its aviation technology centers and key personnel, paralleled by the United States with its own
Operation Lusty
aviation technology personnel and knowledge recovery program.
In
Operation Paperclip
, beginning in 1945, the United States imported 1,600 German scientists and technicians, as part of the intellectual reparations owed to the US and the UK, including about $10 billion (US$156 billion in 2023 dollars) in patents and industrial processes.
[114]
In late 1945, three German rocket-scientist groups arrived in the U.S. for duty at
Fort Bliss, Texas
, and at
White Sands Proving Grounds
,
New Mexico
, as "War Department Special Employees".
[115]
The wartime activities of some Operation Paperclip scientists would later be investigated.
[116]
Arthur Rudolph
left the United States in 1984, in order to not be prosecuted.
[117]
Similarly, Georg Rickhey, who came to the United States under Operation Paperclip in 1946, was returned to Germany to stand trial at the
Mittelbau-Dora
war crimes trial in 1947. Following his acquittal, he returned to the United States in 1948 and eventually became a US citizen.
[118]
The Soviets began
Operation Osoaviakhim
in 1946.
NKVD
and Soviet army units effectively deported thousands of military-related technical specialists from the
Soviet occupation zone
of post-war Germany to the Soviet Union.
The Soviets used 92 trains to transport the specialists and their families, an estimated 10,000-15,000 people.
Much related equipment was also moved, the aim being to virtually transplant research and production centres, such as the relocated
V-2 rocket
centre at
Mittelwerk
Nordhausen
, from Germany to the Soviet Union. Among the people moved were
Helmut Grottrup
and about two hundred scientists and technicians from
Mittelwerk
.
Personnel were also taken from
AEG
,
BMW
's Stassfurt jet propulsion group,
IG Farben
's Leuna chemical works,
Junkers
,
Schott AG
,
Siebel
,
Telefunken
, and
Carl Zeiss AG
.
The operation was commanded by NKVD deputy
Colonel General Serov
,
outside the control of the local
Soviet Military Administration
.
The major reason for the operation was the Soviet fear of being condemned for noncompliance with
Allied Control Council
agreements on the liquidation of German military installations.
Some Western observers thought Operation Osoaviakhim was a retaliation for the failure of the
Socialist Unity Party
in elections, though Osoaviakhim was clearly planned before that.
Demise of the League of Nations and the founding of the United Nations
[
edit
]
As a general consequence of the war and in an effort to maintain international peace,
[126]
the Allies formed the
United Nations
(UN), which officially came into existence on 24 October 1945.
[127]
The UN replaced the defunct
League of Nations
(LN) as an intergovernmental organization. The LN was formally dissolved on 20 April 1946 but had in practice ceased to function in 1939, being unable to stop the outbreak of World War II. The UN inherited some of the bodies of the LN, such as the
International Labour Organization
.
League of Nations mandates
, mostly territories that had changed hands in
World War I
, became
United Nations Trust Territories
.
South-West Africa
, an exception, was still governed under terms of the original mandate. As the successor body to the League, the UN still assumed a supervisory role over the territory. The
Free City of Danzig
, a semi-autonomous
city state
that was partly overseen by the League, became part of
Poland
.
The UN adopted The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
in 1948, "as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations." The Soviet Union abstained from voting on adoption of the declaration. The US did not
ratify
the
social and economic rights
sections.
[128]
The five major Allied powers were given permanent membership in the
United Nations Security Council
. The permanent members can
veto
any
United Nations Security Council resolution
, the only UN decisions that are binding according to
international law
. The five powers at the time of founding were: the United States of America, the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union and the
Republic of China
. The Republic of China lost the
Chinese Civil War
and retreated to the island of Taiwan by 1950 but continued to be a permanent member of the Council even though the
de facto
state in control of mainland China was the
People's Republic of China
(PRC). This was changed in 1971 when the PRC was given the permanent membership previously held by the
Republic of China
. Russia inherited the permanent membership of the Soviet Union in 1991 after the dissolution of that state.
Unresolved conflicts
[
edit
]
Japanese holdouts
persisted on various islands in the
Pacific Theatre
until at least 1974. Although all hostilities are now resolved, a peace treaty has never been signed
between Japan and Russia
due to the
Kuril Islands dispute
.
Economic aftermath
[
edit
]
By the end of the war, the
European economy
had collapsed with some 70% of its industrial infrastructure destroyed.
[129]
The property damage in the Soviet Union consisted of complete or partial destruction of 1,710 cities and towns, 70,000 villages/hamlets, and 31,850 industrial establishments.
[130]
The strength of the economic recovery following the war varied throughout the world, though in general, it was quite robust, particularly in the United States.
In Europe,
West Germany
, after having continued to decline economically during the first years of the Allied occupation, later experienced a
remarkable recovery
, and had by the end of the 1950s doubled production from its pre-war levels.
[131]
Italy came out of the war in poor economic condition,
[132]
but by the 1950s, the Italian economy was marked by stability and high growth.
[133]
France rebounded quickly and enjoyed rapid economic growth and modernisation under the
Monnet Plan
.
[134]
The UK, by contrast, was in a state of economic ruin after the war
[135]
and continued to experience relative economic decline for decades to follow.
[136]
The Soviet Union also experienced a rapid increase in production in the immediate post-war era.
[137]
Japan experienced
rapid
economic growth, becoming one of the most powerful economies in the world by the 1980s.
[138]
China, following the conclusion of its civil war, was essentially bankrupt. By 1953, economic restoration seemed fairly successful as production had resumed pre-war levels.
[139]
This growth rate mostly persisted, though it was interrupted by economic experiments during the disastrous
Great Leap Forward
.
At the end of the war, the United States produced roughly half of the world's industrial output. The US, of course, had been spared industrial and civilian devastation. Further, much of its pre-war industry had been converted to wartime usage. As a result, with its industrial and civilian base in much better shape than most of the world, the US embarked on an economic expansion unseen in human history. US
gross domestic product
increased from $228 billion in 1945 to just under $1.7 trillion in 1975.
[140]
[141]
Denazification
[
edit
]
In 1951 several laws were passed, ending the denazification. As a result, many people with a former Nazi past ended up again in the political apparatus of West Germany. West German President
Walter Scheel
and Chancellor
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
were both former members of the
Nazi Party
. In 1957, 77% of the
West German Ministry of Justice
's senior officials were former Nazi Party members.
[142]
Konrad Adenauer's State Secretary
Hans Globke
had played a major role in drafting antisemitic
Nuremberg Race Laws
in Nazi Germany.
[143]
Unexploded ordnance
[
edit
]
Unexploded ordnance
continues to pose a danger in the present day. In 2017 fifty thousand people were evacuated from Hanover so
World War II
era bombs could be defused.
[144]
As of 2023, it is still thought that thousands of unexploded bombs remain from World War II.
[145]
Environment
[
edit
]
When
World War II
ended scientists did not have procedures for safe disposal of chemical arsenals. At the direction of the UK, US and Russia, chemical weapons were loaded onto ships by the metric ton and dumped into the sea. The exact locations of the dumping are not known due to poor record keeping, but it is estimated that 1 million metric tons of chemical weapons remain on the ocean floor where they are rusting and pose the risk of leaks.
Sulfur
mustard exposure has been reported in some parts of coastal Italy and sulfur mustard bombs have been found as far as
Delaware
, likely brought in with the
shellfish
cargo.
[146]
See also
[
edit
]
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