HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: History Of Europe, Marshall Plan, Joseph Goebbels
5 Apr 2016
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Europe after the second world war: critical issues. Finding a large-scale way to keep security (un) Economic prosperity in the west: baby-booming, consumption. Generation of the 1960"s rebels against post-war settlement. It was known since 1944 that germany could not endure. Summer 1944: europe invaded by the western allies (russians from east, powers from the west; germany is pinched) Hitler and joseph goebbels kill themselves and their families". Bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki, pushing japan to surrender. 9 million german speakers displacing from occupied europe. People surviving concentration camps and labor slaves are on the move. Displaced people camps were established (7 million people). Managing refugee movements done by the united nations. Somewhere around 50 million people dead in ww2. Not only killing people but eradicating" people (their culture) Under truman administration, george marshall, secretary of. Approximately 13 billion to europe, about 0. 5% of american gdp. Productivity missions, europeans sent to america to learn about business.
