Social Connection

The war still effects many people today. Many people have vivid memories of what took place, that they will never forget. We lost a percentage of our population, and lost friends and family. We became more industrialized. Women went to work for the first time, leading to women's rights. We learned demand is crucial- and that jobs don't go unfilled for long. If jobs were widely available today, unemployed workers would quickly find a way to acquire needed skills or move to where the jobs were located. Enormous technological progress was made during the war. Progress in electronics and computers, made during the war, provided a foundation for further development which fundamentally transformed the postwar world. The development of the atomic bomb by European and American scientists during the war, not only transformed the nature of potential future wars, it marked the beginning of the nuclear power industry.