HST 296 Chapter 1: Mushroom Cloud and Iron Curtain
Document Summary
Weapons used: long range rockets, missiles and bombs. Ww2 brought the united states out of the great. Few cities escaped the destruction of war: paris, rome and prague. Soviet union lost 30% of its prewar capital stock. War destroyed most of china"s industrial plant. Japan blew up dikes which flooded 3 million acres of farmland. Bombs dropped on japan on 8/6/1945 and 8/9/1945. End of two empires: hiroshima and berlin. Germany vs. russia: fight over living space in eastern europe. The japanese, chinese nationalists and chinese communists continued fighting. Pacific war: had to block japan"s expansion. Created buffer states to provide protection from possible attacks. Britain was no longer as powerful as there were to begin the war. 1930"s governments began experimenting with radio detection. Gained early warning of german air raids (1940-41) Dropping the bombs shortened the war: it eliminated months of fighting. Historians analyze by asking questions about what happened and why that event happened.
