World War II also affected life in Japan. A very big spark to the start of World War II was the attack on Pearl Harbor. America then decided to attack Japan, leading to the second world war. The war went from 1941 to 1945, and soon enough, we got tired of the war and all of the deaths and casualties, so we decided to bomb Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. As a result, the war ended, but a new phase sprung up in those two places. Many people were killed and injured severely. They lost everything they had from personal belongings to loved ones. It was hard for people at that time to recover from such a dramatic event. Some had no place to go because their homes were gone, and so were the people they once knew. It was a new life for everyone who survived. Everything would be different and nothing like the times they were used to.
Not only was life different for people back on the home front and in Japan, but things in Europe were upside down as well. All the Jewish families in Europe were faced with the holocaust. They got sent off to concentration camps, ghetto camps, or just suffered from hiding from the Nazis. Life in the camps for them was worse than dying. The Jewish families got separated from each other, and many never saw their loved ones again. They died mainly from malnutrition and the Nazi’s killing them. It was so bad that people even committed suicide.
Lastly, the war had a huge impact on the soldiers that were a part of it. If they were drafted, they were forced to go off to war, the beginning of a new life. They left their friends and families, knowing they might not see them again, to represent our country. However, many of them were not able to survive and died. Soldiers suffered from many diseases, and spent months and years in the cold fighting. They might’ve made friends at war, but it was hard when one of them got shot or died. We know of all these stories about war life and how they fought, but in order to get the real feel for how it really was, someone would have to experience it first. The experience the soldiers had when they were fighting was not the best thing that could’ve happened to them.
As you can see, World War II had a big impact all around the world. Many people in different countries faced challenges that they would have to eventually overcome. Most of the challenges that came across were life changing. Some died, and the rest had to start up a totally new life, something that none of us would be willing to do.
