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The relationship between the Golden Age of Science Fiction and World War II. Trey thomas World War 2(WWII) was a very big influence on Science Fiction It also clamed over 60 million lives and is still the deadliest war in human history. The war involved 70 nations and was fought in 7 regions of the world. Those regions were the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The war ended in an Allied victory over the Axis powers. The Axis powers were Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan. The Allied powers were China, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union); later France was considered a power of the Allies when it was lberated from German control. The Second World War was influential on Sci-Fi because of several reasons. One reason is that the weapons used in WWII were some times alien looking. For example the Flame Thrower, or the PIAT (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank). These weapons and many more inspired many Sci-Fi Alien weapons that writers wrote or drew into their stories. Finally when the war was over many Sci-Fi writers used the idea of an intergalactic war in their stories. Also when the F117 stealth Fighter was developed in the cold war with many ideas from sci-fi writers. many people that lived around Area 51 believed that there was an alien ship that it had taken off of from in the vacenity of the World. Also Sci-Fi has a role in war, especially during WWII some of the wepons designers went to and used the ideas of some Sci-Fi writers. One writer who inspired weapon designers was [|Ian fleming], who also created James Bond, was in to writing during the Second World War. One other writer who inspired the designers of the World War Two weponry was [|Isaac Asimov]. Isaac Asimov was very important to Sci-Fi because he has written some of the more famous novles in the genre of Sci-Fi, he has also, been called one of the three grand masters of Sci-Fi(the other two are Arthur C. Clark, and Robert A. Heinlein). Finaly when the war in erope ended the writers in americs started to write about a war that was similar exept versus the aliens and the human race ends up wining, however some other writers wrote about a simar thing where the human race was wiped out. Finally the nuclear finish in the Pacific brought the idea to authors about a world after a nuclear war. Also the writers wrote about a nuclear war with aliens in a life and death struggle. With the growing amount of nuclear war posibilites after WWII with The Soviet Union, some writers wrote about an america that had been over run by the soviets, and cubans. Also the writers wrote about what life would be like in a nuclear fall out america. Last but not least when the end of The second wold war came along many of the writers of Sci-Fi decided to begin there careers as Sci-Fi writers.(see World War II (4th block) for more details, then folow link on the page) To sumarize the post, the genre of Science fiction would not be as good if WWII had not happened. Also some wepon designers are still using the ideas from the Great Sci-Fi writers of the past and present.
 * World War II**

Clock wise from Bottom right corner, soviet flag over Berlin Germany, Nagasaki atomic bomb, Nazi German Soldiers with Flag, Allied beach landig on normandy(beaches in France), Auschwitz concentration camp in Germany. PIAT F117 Night Hawk stealth fighter(developed in the cold war)