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, USA: s previous president Roosevelt and Stalin had already set up the plans for how Europe would be like when Hitler was gone. They came down to some things, and one of them was that Soviet would get its area from 1941, and also that Soviet would consider the eastern parts, that the Red Army had in taken, as their own, and countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Bess Arabia became independent after World War 1, but they did not have the chance to keep themselves independent for a long time. All of these countries became Soviets, and with a lot of pride they also took over the East Prussia with the capital city Koenigsberg. It was renamed to Kaliningrad and became a very important military base. (1)

Austria who had been a part of Germany had now become separated from Germany. Yugoslavia re-established and Hungary got its borders changed. In other words Ð'- Europe was radically changed.

The "winners", if you even can say there was any winners would be in the west USA, Great Britain, and France, and also in eat, The Soviet Union. The western confederates gathered in Western Germany (BRD) and Soviet occupied Eastern Germany, that became its own state, and it was called DDR. Berlin, that was located in Eastern Germany, was ruled by both of the occupying powers. Everybody was not pleased. Stalin in east did not want the Western confederates would rule over Western Berlin, because it was located in the middle of Eastern Germany, which was his. His plan was to starve the whole Western Berlin, but he failed with that plan. The western powers made sure that fuel and foods-stuff was sent down to the two and a half million people who lived there. (2)

Even though The World War 2 was over, it did not mean there was peace in the world. Soviet and the western powers worked together to stop Hitler and his march. You could think that they would be happy because of all the incredible they achieved and that they would shake hands with Hitler with a smile, but now, when the enemy they had in common was defeated, they did not really have the same thoughts anymore. They no longer had anything to fight for together as a team, and with that Ð'- the Cold War started.

There were several reasons why the Cold War started. After World War 2, in the year of 1945, Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt had gathered again to really draw the lines and borders for Europe. They agreed that the states that bordered against Soviet would be ruled by people that were "friendly engaged" in this country. The administrations had to be added through free and democratically elections. This increased antagonisms between Soviet and the Western Powers. Another reason was eastern Europe's attitude after the war. A big part of Soviet was destructed and Stalin demanded compensation from the Western Powers. The Western Powers