What Were the Results of World War 2
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What Were the Results of World War 2
What were the results of World War 2?
After World War 2, the borders of Europe changed. The losers were Germany who got its area decreased. The Soviet Union got a piece of eastern Poland, and Poland got a piece of Germany as compensation. A lot of people lost their lives during the war, so Europe was not what it used to be.
Numbers of killed people around the world:
Soviet Union: 7 million
Germany: 3.5 million
China: 2.2 million
Japan: 1.3 million
United kingdom: 0.5 million
USA: 0.35 million
The rest: 15 million (out of that, 6 million was Jewish).
For Germany, the World War 2 was a disaster. Hitler had dreamed about a bigger Germany, which now was even smaller than after World War 1. On top of that, Germany was now split in two parts; Eastern and Western Germany. The capital city Berlin had the Berlin Wall that divided the city, but it got ripped down in 1989. Czechoslovakia resurrected and nothing turned out to be what people expected it to.
In the year of 1943 Churchill,