Title: Effects of World War II
Headings: Effects of World War II
Effects of World War II
Content: The weakness of England and France, the two major European imperial powers, provided opportunities. The stage was set for the collapse of European empires in the 3 decades following the war. New technology, developed during the war to fight disease, would, when applied to the non-European world, result in sharply lower mortality rates and soaring population growth. WHAT EFFECTS DID THE WAR HAVE UPON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY? Enormous technological progress was made during the war. The English developed radar which would be the forerunner of television. Progress in electronics and computers, made during the war, provided a foundation for further development which fundamentally transformed the postwar world. The development of the atomic bomb by European and American scientists during the war, not only transformed the nature of potential future wars, it marked the beginning of the nuclear power industry. WHAT POLITICAL CHANGES OCCURRED IN REGARD TO THE PROSPECT OF
FUTURE WARS? World War II had appeared to pose an unprecedented threat to human civilization and gave impetus to the renewal of Wilson's vision of an international organization to keep the peace.