HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Josip Broz Tito, Berlin Blockade, Complete Control
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Winston churchill 1874-1965: stalin 1879 1953, truman 1884 1972. Bring the 2nd world war to an end and the fallout of it. Ww2 took its toll the way the first did. The difference light causalities of the western european powers compared to ww1. Italy entered late and got out early and tried to change sides lost 450,000. Central and eastern europe 5 million germans, 20 mil russians, poland, yugoslavia and eastern europe countries higher. Plus the jewish losses poland loss over 3 million jews. Complete destruction of cities and infrastructure use of air craft, carpet bombing, firepower of weapons and technology of destruction more sophisticated (including german rockets buzz bombs) . animls and crops were destroyed, destruction of cities, transportation systems, railroads, docks, power generating stations no food in cities, no way to get food to cities. Civil order broke down (like ww1) at the places near the fighting. 1945, and the situation was different than in 1919.
