HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bretton Woods Conference, Atlantic Charter, Cold War
29 Sep 2016
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World war ii had proven unusually destructive and its most indelible symbol was the transformation of cities into piles of rubble like koblenz, germany. It would take years to clear the rubble and decades to complete rebuilding and economic recovery. Ii proved horribly savage, unprecedentingly destructive, devastating civilian infrastructure across the globe, and leaving sixty million dead. After the 1945 armistices, survivors emerged from the ruins of cities, hungry and nursing the wounds of undiagnosed post-traumatic stress syndrome. Global suffering culminated in a universal sentiment that the world needed to be reformed and ordinary people should never again be subjected to such atrocities. From 1945 to 1948 ordinary people, international statesmen, and national leaders collaborated to create the edifice for a new international system. Revocation of fascism: world war ii proved unusually destructive, devastating infrastructure, while spurring widespread civilian suffering.
