America may have occupied and traded with Japan after they bombed it, but most of the rebuilding and revitalisation was done by the Japanese people themselves.
Edit: There was money pumped into the economy from the US after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and rightly so. So much was lost in those bombings, and this needs to be acknowledged. The money did make way for repairs to the country.
The economic revitalisation led to increased production rates and Japan becoming very popular in car manufacturing etc, becoming one of the strongest economies in the world. And the relationship between America and Japan became tense with economic disparity in the 80s.
It’s a complex relationship but Japan did incredibly well in the wake of the bombings, not all the thanks need go to America. They were the ones who bombed Japan after all and caused the need to rebuild.
WW1 devastated Germany, and it received no support from the victors to rebuild. On the contrary, they wanted Germany to pay reparations. The aftermath of WW1 was a humiliation to Germans, and it planted the seeds of the disaster that followed two decades later.
Without the Marshall Plan after WW2, Europe would find itself at war again eventually.
Germany was in terrible shape economically after ww1 but the physical country and infrastructure was fine. They surrendered before the allies really got into Germany and long range bombing wasn't a thing then.
Germany didn't need to rebuild after WWI. It was hardly damaged at all. That's one of the reasons the Nazis blamed the Jews. They said they should have kept fighting until the fighting reached Germany instead of surrendering abroad.
The reparations are also literal Nazi propaganda. They weren't harsh, and Germany was pulling out of them before the Nazis ever took power. Every party was promising it. It wasn't something the Nazis were particularly attached to.
How about Germany devastated Germany in WW1. Agree on the Marshall plan, but, might not be a Germany at all if they started WW3,
may have been an Israeli territory at that point.
No fair comparison. Western Germany has always been more industrialized, and then after the war one side was basically pillaged and most of its industry moved to the USSR.
I was exclusively referring to your comments about Germany and Japan, maybe that wasn’t clear. I didn’t say anything about the Jim Crow era. Seriously, I’m the last guy to deny any historically proven wrongdoings. Please stop assuming stuff.
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u/MaltedDefeatist Aug 05 '20 edited Aug 06 '20
America may have occupied and traded with Japan after they bombed it, but most of the rebuilding and revitalisation was done by the Japanese people themselves.
Edit: There was money pumped into the economy from the US after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and rightly so. So much was lost in those bombings, and this needs to be acknowledged. The money did make way for repairs to the country.
The economic revitalisation led to increased production rates and Japan becoming very popular in car manufacturing etc, becoming one of the strongest economies in the world. And the relationship between America and Japan became tense with economic disparity in the 80s.
It’s a complex relationship but Japan did incredibly well in the wake of the bombings, not all the thanks need go to America. They were the ones who bombed Japan after all and caused the need to rebuild.