![]() It was the first time women experienced social and financial freedom on a large scale as they were asked to help out by working (and getting a paycheck) and many had to figure out living on their own without a husband or any male support structure. Arguably better from her point of view, but she’s one person with a very limited scope of history.Īlso, WWII accelerated the fight for gay, women’s, and minority rights (at least in the US). ![]() She hasn’t made things ‘better’, just ‘different’. imperialism with communism being seen as a failed ideology. We might not, say, have a holocaust of the jewish people, but instead africa might still be divided up by european powers who treat the land and its people as an exploitable resource for their empires. Not one that won’t have its own, ample, horrors mind you. While this may not have been the ‘ideal’ outcome, changing this stuff means that, well, she’s literally sent history down an unrecognizable path. communism the overarching divide for the next fifty or so years. It also drastically altered the world order and firmly installed both the USA and USSR as the two major powers and made democracy vs. The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was also a huge reason why the cold war never went hot because so many people saw how horrifying the a-bomb was and did so, well, at the END of a war (a war full of horrors no less). For example, the horrors of the holocaust catapulted human rights towards the front of a lot of peoples minds and made racism far, far, less appealing in the eyes of many. So, I’m not exactly sure what changes she actually made… but this strikes me as… insanely naieve.Īs much as we hate WWII and all the horrors it caused it was also responsible for a multitude of changes and developing/shaping pretty much all of the modern world.
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