Word War two aftermath
Immediately after the world war two ,several events took place.Some of them were the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The battle of the barge ended, and Germany was on retreat with itself. Moreover, there was a bombing raid on the German city of Dresden start.Many lives were lost in the firestorm that was created by 1300 Allied bombers (Geiger et al.,2017).The U.S marines also raised the US flag on the summit of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima where only 1000 Japanese defenders were taken, prisoners.After its defeat in world war two, the United States led in the occupation and rehabilitation of the Japanese state.In the Potsdam Declaration, they called for Japan’s unconditional surrender.A 25 percent rough estimate of Germany’s pre-Anschluss territory was ceded to Poland and the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference (Darracot, 2018). After the war, there was spread of communism from the Soviet Union into other regions like China and Europe.Moreover, there was the global shift in power from Europe to the two superpowers, i.e. the United States and Soviet Union that later faced off against each other in the cold war.
The instrument of surrender treaty of September 2, 1945, marked the official end of world war two.The Paris Peace Treaties was signed on the 10th of February as the outcome of the Paris peace conference.The treaties made is possible for Italy, Hungary, Romania, Finland, and Bulgaria to resume their responsibilities as sovereign states in international affairs as well as a qualification for United Nations membership.The Soviet Union violated these treaties because it took part in world war two even after signing the non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany(Hudson, 2018). The Marshall Plan also known as the European recovery program was a U.S program that provided aid to Western Europe after world war two. According to Darracott , 2018, after the World war two, the United States became responsible of ensuring that there is a balance of power in the regions that keeps them internally divided to prevent the East Asian and European influences from expanding into the Western Hemisphere.