HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Baltic States, Fiscal Union, Marshall Plan
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Winston churchill 1874-1965: stalin 1879 1953, truman 1884 1972. Bring the 2nd world war to an end and the fallout of it. Ww2 took its toll the way the irst did. The diference light causaliies of the western european powers compared to ww1. Italy entered late and got out early and tried to change sides lost 450,000. Central and eastern europe 5 million germans, 20 mil russians, poland, yugoslavia and eastern europe countries higher. Plus the jewish losses poland loss over 3 million jews. Complete destrucion of ciies and infrastructure use of air crat, carpet bombing, irepower of weapons and technology of destrucion more sophisicated (including german rockets buzz bombs) . animls and crops were destroyed, destrucion of ciies, transportaion systems, railroads, docks, power generaing staions no food in ciies, no way to get food to ciies. Civil order broke down (like ww1) at the places near the ighing. 1945, and the situaion was diferent than in 1919.
