World Wars ComparedRESULTS

Results of Both Wars• Chaos and destruction – lives, property,

economies, & governments

• “Losers”

lost

territory

and

colonies

• Maps

redrawn

1914

1946

• Changed

political

structures

–New

governments

took power

–Expanded power

of government

• Changed societies

– Women gained power

– African-Americans pushed for changes

• International organizations – League of

Nations, UN

• New powers emerged – the U.S. in both wars,

Japan after WWI, Soviet Union after WWII

• New technology

and inventions

Western European superiority

was questioned

• Independence movements

grew in European-held colonies

– India, SE Asia, and Africa

Results of WWI

• 1918 Influenza Pandemic

• Chemical Weapons were

outlawed.

Results of WWI

• Losers were punished more severely

(reparations)

• Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Russian,

and German Empire fell.

• The Great Depression?

Results of WWI

• Russian Revolution and Civil War

Results of WWII

• Trials for War

Crimes

• Migration of

people

Results of WWII• U.S. prosperity & power

Results of WWII – The Cold War

Division

of the

world

into U.S.

and its

allies

against

the

U.S.S.R.

and its

allies.

Results of WWII

• Tension

remained

between Japan

and China

• Continued Arms

race – nuclear

weapons