how Japan and Germany developed after ww-2 since they were devasted extensively?
363287
America gave them money and assisted in the rebuilding efforts.
1080398
"Swords to plowshares"\n\nAfter the war Germany was under US-martial law. The Allies dissolved the German Army on August 20, 1946.\nAll military were disbanded an (almost) all equipment was molten and made into materials to rebuild Germany and surrounding countries.\n\nRailroads and bridges needed to be rebuilt. Then there was the Marshal-plan.\n\nAlso many tanks were used by their captors. France used some German Panther tanks as late as the late 50's.
419707
The Germans were severly oppressed after their defeat in WW1 and the civil unrest allowed Adolph Hitler to win their confidence, promising to restore Germany's power and dignity.  \n\nHitler then set about a world conquest program that included the other Axis powers.  He lost.  So did Italy and Japan.  So did everyone else in many respects.  The Baltic nations were swallowed into Communism by the USSR, England was devastated and blood ran deep in most of Europe.\n\nJohnny
1024055
hmmmm. that one is tricky. but take ww2 for ex. the war was a big boost for the economy esp. since it started during the depression. it gave people jobs. and helped with the stock market. socially it wasn't so great though it did help people by boosting there moral as in getting jobs. but on the German front it was devastating to Jews and anyone the Germans persecuted. long term it ended up bringing Communism which as we all know isn't that great. so basically you are looking for anything that would be kinda like that where you could see a drastic impact on all fronts. good luck. hope i helped if not sorry.
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Germany had to relinquish claims on all foreign lands with sizeable German ethnic minorities. Many German ethnic persons in Eastern Europe were forcibly relocated to Germany so their indirect protection would no longer be a cause for German aggression. Because Poland was forced to accept withdrawal to their original eastern border (ie-before the 1920-21 war with Russia), Germany was forced to surrender East Prussia, Silesia, etc. Germany was divided into 4 occupation and de-Nazification zones. Several million German prisoners or war were forced to do labor in France and Russia for about 5 years (see book Other Losses) and the Russian zone (East Germany) was forced to allow the relocation of much of their remaining industrial plants into Russia as reparation.\n\nJapan was forced to surrender all of her pre-war empire (Formosa, Korea, Manchuoko, League of Nations Mandate Islands, etc). Japan was forced to accept occupation and de-militarization for many years under American supervision. Japan was forced to accept American dictated constitution and form of government.\n\nBoth Germany and Japan were forced to accept and cooperate with Allied imposed War Crimes investigations.\n\nFinland was forced to formally accept the treaty boundary after the 1940 Winter War and agree to pay huge reparations to Russia (finally paid in full in mid-1980's). Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria were forced to accept Russian occupation as part of the Yalta sphere of influence agreement which resulted in staged Bolshevik coups and Soviet political domination for forty-five years. Italy, because it had staged a Royalist coup in 1943 and then officially changed sides, was still forced to surrender its overseas empire (Lybia, Somalia, Albania) as well as her limited territorial gains in Tyrol and Trieste, but was not forced to accept division, occupation and de-Fascization.
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Europe was broke from two World Wars.  They were already in poor economic shape before the war.  France was once again devastated by fighting on its territories.  Germany, the greatest European power, was divided into two zones, one controlled by the Soviet Union, and the other by France, UK, and the US, though the US had all the power.  Though the USSR was also devastated by the war, the battle of Stalingrad being the most deadly of the war, they quickly rebounded by treating Eastern Europe as an essential colony and stripping war material from East Germany.  The United States had been on the assent for some time, and would have become a superpower regardless of the war, but it just made them that much more powerful that potential German or British challengers.  During the war, at the meeting of Yalta between Roosevelt and Stalin, it was agreed that the USSR would get de factor control over Eastern Europe to administer it as it saw fit.  Later agreements led to the division of conquered Japanese territory, such as Korea.  This division was intended to only be temporary. But because of the ideological differences between the two, it quickly became clear that the U.S. and the USSR would become competitors.  While this led to proxy war in Korea, in Europe it devolved into a stalemate.  KGB battled the CIA, with both rigging elections through the continent.  Berlin was blockade from receiving food, with the West airdropping food in response.  Eventually it became the situation of the iron curtain, with a divided Europe, each side reliant on a superpower to prevent from becoming a battleground between the two. Though some countries showed some independence, mainly France and Yugoslavia, they were largely required to toe the line or fear losing protection.
403783
It was the development of the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan near the end of WWII.
414527
WW1 was about world leadership with japan so we are told and WW2 was about Hitler
318942
Militarism, Adolf Hitler want to re-arm Germany, Italy looking outward for conquest, Japan with recent naval victory against Russia in Vladivostok believes it can take the world as it had humiliate the Russian giant.\n\nAgression, believing that after WW1, no one wants another war, it can agress and bully neigbors, Germany start annexing Austro-Hungary, Japan use Manchuria as an excuse to be in China, Italy due to lack of any natural resource start venturing into Africa.\n\nNationalism, German leader lead the people believe that the suffering they have was a result of their defeat and was able to raise the nationalism spirit of the people, Japan with its emperor regard as the son of heaven, ralied the people to believe that they are no longer a small nation, they can anyone as they had shown in defeating the Russian navy. The Italian was ralied together to avoid a civil war.
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Germany had been one of the leaders in industrialisation before WW1, but at the Treaty of Versaille the opposing countries put a stop to this ... in order to reduce the threat of Germany rebuilding it's power.\n\nAt Versailles the German government had been forced to sign a peace treaty that gave away 13% of her territory. This meant the loss of 6 million people, a large percentage of her raw materials (65% of iron ore reserves, 45% of her coal, 72% of her zinc) and 10% of her factories.\n\nThis naturally led to a depression in Germany and the people felt a little down trodden.  This was Hitler's springboard to inspire and unite the people.\n\nCheck out the link below for lots of great info, pictures and accounts of WW2 (it's a school level website on history ... it's brillant!)
57331
After WWI, the Allies decided that they were going to punish Germany for causing WWI.  The fact that Germany was no more at fault than France or England was not an issue.  Germany was severely punished, and the result was the rise of Hitler, which consequently lead to WWII.\n\nAfter WWII, the US wanted to avoid another war, and they had learned the hard way that keeping the loser down was not a good idea.  Rebuilding Japan (and Germany) was the best way to ensure future security and hopefully cooperation between the two nations.
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When it is done. Don't you people realize this is not a movie and it doesn't get resolved in 2 hours and 5 minutes? When we ended WWII, it took almost 10 years to get both Germany and Japan running on their own again.\n\nAnd for those of you who think what's happening in Iraq is new or unique, you are wrong! At the end of WWII in Germany, there was a long fight with militant Nazi's who still wanted to fight the war. They bombed civilians who helped the allies, assassinated members of the new German government, and tried to terrorize the country as a whole. This went on through the end of the 1940's. They called themselves, "The Werewolves"\n\nHere is a great website detailing the parallels between post-war Germany and Iraq:\n\nhttp://www.talkingproud.us/International090103.html
123442
Japan's new constitution stated that it would never again fight another war. Japan disbanded it's military, and this has remained te same even till the present day. Japan has only the Defense Forces, which are police and coastguardsmen.\n\nIt took decades for Japan to recover economically and physically from the bombings of WWII. Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and other cities were bombed almost to the point of extinction.\n\nUS military bases were also put in Japan to keep peace in the area, but it's also because we had leverage on them and few other countries in East Asia.\n\nHope I helped,\n\nth3wise1
107818
Plain and simple...we out produced them.  This is not only how we defeated Japan but also Germany.  We produced far greater numbers of carriers, battleships, guns, aircraft etc etc.  Japan did not have the resources to go toe to toe with us in all out warfare.  They believed that if the attack on Pearl Harbor was succesfull, that America would not retaliate by declaring total war on Japan.  In that sence, one could say that they defeated themselves by underestimating American will.  \n  Island hoping was a very costly technique that was used effectively against Japan as well.  It had a devastating toll on life on both sides.  Another thing Japan did not count on was the fact that after they destroyed most of our battle-ships in Pearl Harbor, we would replace our ships with more modern versions than the ones destroyed....not to mention none of our aircraft carriers were hit in the Pearl Harbor attack.  Logistics also had a large roll on the war in the Pacific.  We effectively blocked most of the supplies Japan needed to conduct warfare against America by sinking supply ships that were on their way to Japan.  Japan being an island nation did not have the material resources on the island to keep pace with American industry...neither did Germany.  I believe this to be the main reason Japan attacked China and Mongolia before the U.S., for material resources.  There is much more but I'm tired of typing....good luck.
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I don't know of any sites to direct you to...\n\nbut you might want to research the economic situation of the countries after WWI...hyperinflation and social instability, which paved the path for Hitler's rise to power.\n\nI would also investigate WHY this happened: the treaty signed punishing Germany, so that they were in the aforementioned economic position...
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Japan saw the subjugation of all of Asia and felt they had to modernize, industialize and militarize immediately no matter what the cost. After Tom Cruise gave them a modern army, they began to expand into China. Japan sought out European friends, first Germany and then England. However, Japan always found themselves treated like the ugly sister in the relationship.\n\nThese problems would start cascading with the European reaction to Japan's success in the Russo-Japanese War and in the First World War. In 1905, at the Portsmouth treaty, Japan found herself having to return most of her military gains back to Russia who had lost the war. In WWI, Japan had done most of the fighting in expelling Germany from China, but the British took all of the credit and treated the Japanese Army very badly. After the war, Britain dropped out of the Japanese alliance because of pressure from the US. In 1920, at the Washington Naval Conference, the ratio of warships for Britain - US - Japan was 5-5-3, but because of the Britain-US closeness Japan saw this as 10-3. Teh League of Nations began to complain about Japanese presence in Manchuria, which led to Japan breaking ties with the rest of the world and invading China. When Japan signed the Tripartite Axis with Germany and Italy in 1940, the US put extreme economic pressure on Japan, leading up to Pearl Harbor.
436855
Wow. That list could be pretty long. Germany conquered most of Europe with a little help from Italy and France. Japan conquered a piece of China,  most of the Pacific coastal countries on the Asian continent and most of the island nations in the Pacific. And then the Allies conquered Germany, Italy, and Japan.\n\nYeah, that list could get pretty long.