what were the moral and psychological effects of WWII?
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Our country adopted the military thinking process of force and absolute destruction of our enemies - it worked for production and countering the threat from the enemy but the men who assembled it - couldnt have imagend how it would become self perpetuating and increasingly trading effieciency for freedoms - and ultimately would shape our thinking proces to the point where human life is considered as less thasn important than our "country's needs"  unthrottled government in union with unmathced force is creating is creating a system Hitler would envy as it has men actually thinking its the right thing to do both morally and loyally.  Hitler had to force compliance - with obvious terror - our spreading control is much more subtle. The answer is for all of us to do what is right morally and stand up vehemently when eeven one right is taken for granted.  As now we turn our backs and watch it become so engrained in everday life that it becomes accepted as normal behavior
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Xenocide! Evil Evil Hitler Man!!!!!!!!!!!\nFor more information feel free to e-mail me at happiest_phantom@ yahoo.com I am an expert on WW2 and my mother is writing a book about it !
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This might help you:  http://www.ahrp.org/history/chronology.php\nIt's a chronology of human research throughout history.\nThe main thing I think of concerning ethics in human experiments is the Milgram experiment.  If you google that you'll get a ton of quality websites, but if you've taken any psychology/sociology/ethics class you've probably already learned about it.
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In addition to various factual questions (such as how many people on both sides might have been killed in an invasion, or whether hostilities might have been ended without an invasion or the bombs), you'll want to define the terms.  Yes, moral/justified are two differet words, but they may or may not have different meanings in context; it depends on your values.  If morality is everying to you, than moral = justified.  If morality is not your highest value, then there must be some other values by which you measure what is justified.
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go to\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the British Commonwealth, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered in September 1943, Germany in May 1945. The surrender of Japan marked the end of the war, on September 2, 1945.\n\nIt is possible that up to 62 million people died in the war; estimates vary greatly. Most were civilians who died as a result of disease, starvation, genocide, and the aerial bombing of cities. Estimates place deaths in the Soviet Union at around 23 million, while China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing approximately 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million (16%).\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally split into western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers began their road to independence.\n\nKey alliances are formed\nOn September 1, the German invasion of Poland began World War II. Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand all declared war on Germany on September 3. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa and Canada followed suit within days. On September 17, the Soviets invaded Poland from the East. The following year, the USSR annexed the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) together with parts of Romania, and attacked Finland. The German-Soviet agreement was brought to an end by the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941.\n\nThe United States of America joined the Allies following the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The Declaration by United Nations, on January 1, 1942, officially united 26 nations as Allies. (The Declaration also formed the basis for the United Nations.) The informal Big 3 alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States emerged in the latter half of the war, and their decisions determined Allied strategy around the world.\n\n\nDates of joining Allies\n Poland: 1939, 1 September \n United Kingdom: 1939, 3 September \n Australia: 1939, 3 September \n New Zealand: 1939, 3 September \n France: 1939, 3 September \n Nepal: 1939, 4 September \n Newfoundland: 1939, 4 September \n Tonga: 1939, 4 September \n South Africa: 1939, 6 September \n Canada: 1939, 10 September \n Denmark: 1940, 9 April \n Norway: 1940, 9 April \n Belgium: 1940, 10 May \n Luxembourg: 1940, 10 May \n Netherlands: 1940, 10 May \n Free France: 1940, 18 June \n Greece: 1940, 28 October \n Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April \n Soviet Union: 1941, 22 June \n Tannu Tuva: 1941, 25 June until 1944, 11 October \n Panama: 1941, 7 December \n Philippines: 1941, 7 December \n Costa Rica: 1941, 8 December \n Dominican Republic: 1941, 8 December \n El Salvador: 1941, 8 December \n Haiti: 1941, 8 December \n Honduras: 1941, 8 December \n Nicaragua: 1941, 8 December \n United
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Hmm, think hard_then speak has an interesting one, although the answer is reasonably well known.\n\nFollowing the WWII I'd interview Werner Heisenberg in 1944 to see if he was really NOT trying to build an A-bomb for Nazi Germany, or if that is just what he said after the war. (And after he learned he was going about it in the wrong way.)
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world war 2 was going on
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This is one of the greatest theological questions of our time, especially for Jews.  \nMany people say that you can't blame G-d for the evil that men do.  \nSome say that the Holocaust was so evil that trying to find reason in it is just too much and we shouldn't try.\nI can't answer your question, but if you're actually interested in a variety of answers I strongly recommend that instead of yahoo answers you read the following book:\n Good and Evil After Auschwitz: Ethical Implications for Today, edited by Jack Bemporad, John T Pawlikowski, Joseph Sievers\nWhen bad things happen to good people by Harold Kushner is a down-to-earth book that tackles a difficult question.\nYou should also read Rav Soloveitchik (Joseph Dov Soloveitchik) and Eliezer Berkovits, as well as the Lubavitche Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.\nI just googled this and got the following:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_theology\ntry that, too/
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WWII was thought of Germany's "revenge" or rebirth after the shame it was brought due to the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was made to pay the countries it affected after the war and limit the number of military troops. Germany was not present during the discussion of the treaty and it felt wronged. Hitler used this is a spin to bring the Germans to rally behind him. WWI is actually considered the "unfinished war" and WWII was just a continuation.
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One of the unintended side effects was the rise of feminism.\n\nPrior to WWII the men worked and the women stayed home and took care of the family. During the war the work force suddenly became 80+% female while the men were off saving the world from communism.  When the men returned home from the war, "Rosie the riveter" soon found out that she was no longer content cooking, cleaning, and taking care of her man and his kids. \n\nAs a side note, I've got to hand it to the women of WWII. I recently spent the night aboard the USS Lexington as a part of a boy scout outing. This particular ship was known as the "gray ghost" because it was reported as sunk on 5 different occasions but managed to survive (a well constructed ship!). Further, when it was commissioned shortly after Perl Harbor the construction schedule was slated for 4 years. She was completed in two. Both of these outstanding items are attributed to the fact that 80% the construction crew were, in fact, women! \n\nYou go girls!
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The most current and destructive form of the misapplication of psychological research is within the United States Military. Young men being taken in the formative years of their life and following six weeks at Paris island are equipped with weapons of destruction and sent into an environment where every single step they take may very well be their last.\n\nI was 18 years and 3 months old when with my squad; we came face to face the enemy. After about 40 minutes of a firefight, I had killed two men who surely would have taken my life instead. This reality didn’t hit until the next day. I found myself numb to all external feelings, and it went on for weeks. We continued our almost daily routine of 12-hour treks into the surrounding jungle seeking new engagements. A few weeks later, a young native girl crossed a large downed tree that stretched a ravine. As she cross to our side, an improvised explosive device blew sending shrap metal into my chest. It missed my heart and vitals by only centimeters. But physical recovery was months out.\n\nIn that time span of about 9 weeks, I had killed two human beings and watched a young girl blow herself to bit before my very eyes. To this day, over 35 years later, I still wake with vivid dreams of this. My country saw it fit to have me speak with professionals on this issue, who helped me to understand what I did and saw and felt was all a part of war.\n\nTo this day, the last words of my military therapist ring in my head. “You have done your duty, You are cured”! Talk about misapplication!
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over 45 million. world war 2 was because Hitler was being a jack ass.
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try Kenneth Burke about Hitler's rhetoric!\n\nafter a difficult childhood he hated everything so much that he wanted to destroy the world
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Hope this helps.........\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
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1-The earliest social effects were the loss of  jobs and the  scarisity of hard cash. A shortage of good folowed fast and even if you had the cash you were short of goods and scared to spend. The big guy sit down on the money and it went out of circulation fast. People lost homes, families, so many died, and suffered malnutrion due to simply no food. Parents saw children die of starvation, mothers and wives saw  husbands go the suicide route be cause he was helpless to feed his family.\nSchool for many came to a stand still., many school nationwide were closed,and millions of children went without education.\nMy grandparents pulled their corn and gave the griss mill half of it as payment for turning the rest into corn meal. They were oneof the lucky ones.\nMedicine and medical care suffered.\nFamilies split up and the great movement west started. Before the depression Georgia's population was much more  than that of California.  The promise of work in the produce fieldsand fruit grovesof California sent many people there to go humry  with out even shelter over their heads.\nMen left their homes, looking for work and started the great "hobo" rides to nowhere. This usually meant they left a wife and children at home of on the roads. with nothing. Transients were usually refused help in cities and forced from small towns where people protected what little they had left.\nAll of the  old films of the soup kitchens show the men who were fathers, husbands, sons ect  getting a bare meal to just survive past starvation so you can imagine what the women  left behind with children suffered. Many families were suffering. Most familes on the move left or were thrown off their farms with what ever they could carry. \nThe depression meant the beganning of the end of the small farm dominance in America, and the beganing of large corporations.  Homes and farms which had been in the family for generations even back to the revolution were taken for token taxes of a few dollars. many farms went under the tax mans auction for under 5 bucks.\n\n2-Radical groups (like Hitler did in Germany) gained support because they gave the poor, and displaced something to blame their troubles on. They had seemingly good answers to soemhard  questions. They found the scapegoat the public was looking for and usually they were right in that it was the rich guy. This is what gave such a rise to such ideologys as socialism,and communism.  The public had no jobs like in Germany/europe (and as  always plenty of beer or boose) and they had plenty of mad, upset, and hungry people with plenty of time on their hands to listen to them.&#92;\n\n3-I heard  my father talk of some folks on the road getting help from strangers. My grandfather told him of walking and asking people for work for food.While he mentiond many towns would force you out if you were not a native some (especially farm families) would share their last with you. There were new bonds formed, new friends made, and a better appreciation of life and everything material after the depression started. My father as a young boy remebers when things began to pick up and people began to hope again. \n\n4- When people went to the banks and found them closed all at once they did not under stand what happened. Every bank only keeps a percentage their value in money on hand.  The rest is on loan for proifit. when the news began to filter down those on the inside withdrew theirs leaving nothing. When people woke up with no job,and no money this signaled the end of the 20s. and it nearly happened over night  which is why so many people suffered so fast.\nLitterially no goods for consumers,and no funds to purchase what there was brought in the 30s. Government for the most part became non functional and allowed those who did have money and power to later control the country. People like the Kennedys began their wealth during this time and used the depression to do so. Prohibition saw the small farmers who manuf
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World War II had six major causes: anger over the Versailles Treaty, the failure of the peace efforts after World War I, the rise of Fascism, the goals of Hitler, the isolationism by America and Britian, and the re-armament of Europe.