The Effects of World War II

War can have many effects on people and societies, including physical and psychological harm, economic and social decline, and environmental damage: Physical harm. War can directly threaten health by killing and injuring civilians and soldiers, and indirectly by destabilizing the world. Other physical consequences include malnutrition, illness, disability, and sexual violence.Death, injury, sexual violence, malnutrition, illness, and disability are some of the most threatening physical consequences of war, while post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety are some of the emotional effects.

The indirect effects of militarized conflicts' affect access to food, hygiene, health services, and clean water. Women suffer more harshly from the damage to the health as well as overall well-being, other infrastructure damages, and the wider economic damage as well as from dislocation during and post-conflict. War is a complex issue that requires careful consideration and understanding to prevent it from occurring in the future. Its effects are far-reaching and devastating, causing the destruction of property and infrastructure, loss of life, psychological trauma, economic hardship, displacement of people, and increased militarization. The pain, suffering, and displacement that come alongside a traumatic event is an ever-present aspect of this ongoing violence. The emotions and circumstances connected to this violence are known as “war trauma” and can potentially bring long-term consequences to a person's mental health and well-being.

An estimated 60 million people died, including 21 million soldiers and 40 million civilians. Many civilians lived on all continents, and 28 million of the civilian deaths were from the USSR and China. The war also displaced 30 million people in Europe, and millions of Japanese and Koreans returned to their homelands after living elsewhere. The war left much of Europe and Asia in ruins, with flattened cities and towns, destroyed bridges and railroads, and scorched countryside.

The war destroyed the resources, agriculture, and manufacturing of every industrial country except the United States, and caused shortages of food, fuel, and consumer products. War-ravaged countries couldn't produce enough goods for their own people, and many citizens remained undernourished for almost a decade. The war permanently altered political and economic systems in many countries, and led to the rise of communist influence in East Asia. It also demolished several empires, including the German, Japanese, British, and French, while enhancing others, such as the American and Soviet.

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Major Events of WW2:

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part of World War II, and often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia.
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in southern Russia.
The Siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet city of Leningrad on the Eastern Front of World War II.
The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II.
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.