Effects Of Ww2 On Society

World War II is the most important and influential event in the 20th century it has affected our daily lives. It changed our technology and society our lives would have been totally different without the world war.
World War II revolutionized technology we wouldn’t have many things that we take advantage of today. Inventions like cell phones, microwaves, computers and more we wouldn’t have today. WW2 changed air flight, medicine, and military technology.
Aviation played a major role in World War II it was used for mobilization of armies, attack or defending territory, and dropping missiles and bombs. With the need of planes, the evolved and changed over time. In the beginning of the war, the only navigation the pilots had mapped and many were
not even close to their target. Thus several navigation systems were created, inventions such as Oboe and Gee-H which relied on the radio but only a few plane at a time were able to use them("Top Inventions And Technical Innovations Of World War 2")
. So the GEE was created it started the beginning of modern aviation navigation. Getting in the air was the easy part but landing it was the hard part many planes would crash trying to land. Technology such as Blind Approach Beacon System (BABS) was created to help planes land. BABS was the first radar landing system created it would send radio messages to the aircraft and the pilot would align the plane and runway for a landing. Imagine going in a plane without navigation or landing only relying on skill.
World War II made huge advances in medicine with the new weapons and weaponry new medicine practice needed to compensate. Medicine was needed to combat infections and to ease the pain of dying or injured soldiers. Penicillin was discovered pre-war but it was the war that made it famous. Penicillin was mass produced because it could combat numerous viruses including syphilis, meningitis, and pneumonia. It also greatly decreased the chance of bacterial infections which lead to the possibilities of surgical operations, organ transplants, and open heart surgery surgical operations, organ transplants, and open heart surgery.("Medicine And World War Two - History Learning Site") Without Penicillin many lives would be lost. All the medical advances that happened in World War II benefited society immensely. World War II changed how the world fought wars before the war mobilization of slow and grueling. But with advances in technology, we were able to move mass amount soldiers and supplies quickly. Inventions such as jet engines or jeeps they could move quickly over vast terrain this revolutionized war. Other inventions such as the bomb or missiles were you could send one person in a plane and take out 100’s of people. But WW2 gave birth to the most destructive weapon ever created the Atomic Nuke. The Manhattan Project was research and creation of the nuke. The nuke has the killing force of nearly 20,000 tons TNT. The atom bomb can destroy entire cities. On August 6, 1945, America dropped the first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima killing nearly 90,000 through 150,000 people Hiroshima is still dangerous to live from radiation. Estimates guess that there are nearly 16,300 nukes spread out the world if one was launched that could mean the end of the world.
American society drastically changed after WW2 many things that we enjoy today we wouldn’t today.
The changed the workforce, media, and politics.
Today nearly the workforce it equally filled with women and men but pre war the men dominated the workforce very few women worked. But with all the men going overseas to fight someone had to work that's where women come in. Nearly one-third of the women population went into the workforce the other two-thirds still help in the war efforts such as volunteering and working with Red Cross. It would have been hard for this many women to work without the war. Media grew and flourished with the war with the great expansions of the Television before the war there was nearly 5,000 tv in the USA but after the war nearly 940,000 TVs. The TV was a wondrous invention people at home could watch and hear what their family or friends doing overseas. They could see images and films from the war or they can just settle down and watch a baseball game. In the 1960s nearly three-fourths of every American had a tv in their house in became average to own a tv. Today there is nearly 115.6 million in the US and there are nearly hundreds to thousands of tv stations that a person can choose from. It is nearly expected for a person to own a
tv.
Racism through WW2 changed for many people first with Pearl Harbor many people hated or despised the Japanese.
Propaganda against Japanese started to pop everywhere some depicting Japanese with huge buck teeth and funny hats or some would show scary a Japanese person attacking an American with the caption this is our enemy.(Miles) This led to many of American Japanese people relocated to camps and were forced to stay there for fear of spies. But it was also a good time for African Americans because the desegregation of the army meant that black and whites were becoming more equal and respected the same. And many people would learn that African American people were not so bad. Which lead to many changes in minorities lives.
Some would say that the Cold War was the most influential event to ever happen in the 20th Century but it would've ever happened without the World War. The would say that it has affected our world with the idea of nuclear annihilation but nuke was first used and made in and for World War 2. Or that it has affected our relationship with Russia and other communist states. But we didn’t like communism because when Japanese bombed pearl harbor and Japanese are a communistic state. That why World War 2 is the most important and influential event of the 20th century.
These are only a few of the many reasons why World War II was the most important and influential event to happen in the 20th century. Our daily lives would not be the same today, just imagine not to
be able to fly in planes without danger of crashing or not having a cell phone or even having a Television.