What were the Social costs of World War II???

Question

I can't really think of anything besides the fact that millions died altering the world Population and that women became more involved in society and the great Depression preceding the war ended (not that that's even a "cost", so to speak)...so?

Thanks

Answer 1

tensions between the former n***s , rise of communism, jewish families all lost and separated because of concentration camps, literary rise of the diaries of hiding jews.

Answer 2

Well obviously  there was a HUGE amount of tension between germans and jewish people. Also, a bad decision was made to break up countries to their government can be regulated. Examples include the korean war and The berlin wall. Neither russia nor america could agree on governments os wars ensued and countries were divided. In the case of korea, the north and the south are extremely hostile. In terms of germany they split east and west, but west germanies communistic world was failing, so people wanted to go over the border but weren't allowed. Eventually there was a happy ending when democracy kicked in in russua.

Answer 3

Women moved into the workplace during the war, to replace their soldiers fighting overseas.  Later, many remained at their jobs.  This was the start of a growing trend to families where both parents worked, and also an important step in the growing status of women.  (Sorry, that's not a social cost, but a social

CONSEQUENCE of the war.)

Answer 4

Let's not forget WWII was the last conflict in which the US military was segregated by race; after that, all races served with each other, setting the stage for de-segregation at universities, workplace, etc. I don't know if you would call that a cost, though.

Answer 5

It ultimately led to the civil rights movement because of the mistreatment of black and hispanic soldiers.  Cases were reported about how German soldiers, prisoners of war who were supposed to be "the enemy," where generally treated better than black servicement.  In fact, most German POWs in the U.S. hardly felt like POWs at all.  In another instance in I believe the 1950's, in the south, there was a case where a former black WWII vet refused to obey a cop's laws when he wanted to board a white bus because he had to get to work.  The bus stop sign said "whites only" but he demanded he be allowed on the bus because he had to go work, and that since he fought against the axis powers he had every right to board it.  The cop said that since he seemed unable to read signs, that he didn't need his eyes, so he beat him senseless and then gouged his eyes out.  And people wonder why I study Karate but, besides the point....

As many of the soldiers were depression era kids whose parents had been screwed over by the government, because in the 1930's most of America was "working class" and most of Washington D.C. were Ivy league grads, not wanting to be victims, many got themselves educated leading to the birth of the American professional middle class.  The biggest social shift in the U.S. was that after WWII it went from a working class country, to a "professional skilled middle class" one, as many former G.I.'s got their college degree.  The reason they went to college is because it was a lack of education which made their parent's generation ripe picking for corrupt bankers.  An educated generation, some of which were attorneys, could more readily defend themselves.

The two major social shifts after WWII, were indeed seismic; you had outraged black folks who had been screwed over badly by an ungrateful white society, which led to an attitude of vietname era blacks not to go fight in vietnam from the horror stories they heard from their fathers about how they had been treated in WWII.  The other major shift was, that the America we all know and love, and everyone else loves to hate, was for all intents and purposes born after WWII with the creation of the educated professional class, this in turn led to the birth of the entity known as "suburbia."

You look at the history though, every president after Grant, was an Ivy league grad, and in fact until the 1950's, most of Washington D.C. was.  Its not far fetched to say, it was Ivy league grads and their snobery, and their arrogance, which ultimately led to the economic crash of 1929 from their abuses against the common folk.  Not to mention the fact that they were the force behind the creation of the cumpolsory school system indeed, a sociopathic, neo darwinist bullsh*t entity such as the american high school could have only been cooked up by an Ivy league snob.

Hey, look at the educational backgrounds of the people in charge of this country prior to the 1950's.

You may not like what you find.