After the War

September 1945 – the war is over!

…You’ll never know how many dreams

I’ve dreamed about you

Or how empty they all seem without you

So kiss me once…and kiss me twice

And kiss me once again

It’s been a long…long time

It’s been a mighty, mighty long time

 

WWII caused >60 million deaths – approximately 3% percent of the 1940 world’s population. After the war, Allied powers worked to reduce the potential military power of conquered Axis nations and prosecute those accused of war crimes. Millions of Germans and Japanese were forced to leave territories they had colonized (e.g. in Eastern Europe, Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria). Tension between Western Allies and Communist Russia became particularly heated in Germany and the Korean Peninsula, resulting in the ultimate creation of East and West Germany and North and South Korea.

 

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