Title: How did World War II change the world? - World War III - A Possibility?
Headings: How World War II changed the world...
How World War II changed the world...
Content: The immense destruction wrought over the course of the war caused a sharp decline in the influence of the great powers. After the war, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States both became influential forces. The U.S. suffered very little during the war and because of military and industrial exports became a formidable manufacturing power. The USSR was, however, in a better economic and strategic position than any other continental European power. Japan became pacifist
The war accelerated technology and brought new methods for fighting and killing to the later wars. The air forces improved greatly, such as air transport, strategic bombing (to use bombs to destroy industry and morale), as well as radar, and weapons for destroying aircraft. Jet aircrafts developed and would be used in worldwide air forces. Acceleration of regional nationalist movements and independance
Because the League of Nations had failed to actively prevent the war, in 1945 a new international alliance was considered and then created, the United Nations (UN). The UN also was responsible for the initial recognition of the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948, in part as a response to the Holocaust. It was such a global changing event, that in theory every country could agree (religious reasons aside) that we could have restarted the calendar at year 1 in 1946. [