The S hort and Long Term Effects of WW2

By Jaxon Lawrence
European Theater Timeline: Pacific Theater Timeline: “Life in the camps was a
1.Sept 1, 1939 - Germany 1.Dec 7, 1941 - Japan attacks cycle of hunger,
Invades Poland, WWII starts Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters WWII humiliation, and work that
2.June 6, 1944 - D-Day landings 2.June 4-7, 1942 - Battle of
in Normandy give Allies a Midway
almost always ended in
foothold in Europe 3.Feb-Mar, 1945 - Battle of Iwo death.”
3.Feb 4-11, 1945 - Yalta Jima
Conference between leaders of 4.Aug 6, 1945 - US drops an
US, the USSR, and GB. atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
The War in the Pacific Theater was
4.April 30, 1945 - Hitler kills Japan, killing approximately
ended with the dropping of the atomic
himself in Berlin 140,000 people. Nagasaki was
bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
5.May 8, 1945 - Germany bombed a week later.
Thisse atomic bombs demonstrated an
surrenders to Allies, ending war 5.Aug 15, 1945 - Japan
unprecedented level of destruction
in Europe surrenders, war officially ends
and would dictate the military
conflicts that would later ensue
between the United States and Soviet
Nationalism Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, The War in the European Theater came to a close on May 8, Russia. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were
and Japan 1945, with Germany’s unconditional surrender. This victory of ultimately necessary for Japan’s
Militarism Allies: United States, the Soviet the Allied forces cost many lives. Normandy, Stalingrad, and surrender and therefore the end of
Imperialism Union, Great Britain, France, other monumentally important wins for the allied forces took a bloodshed in the pacific, but
and China heavy toll, but ultimately resulted in the defeat of Germany, nevertheless is a tragic loss of civilian
Fascism and Italy. life.