![]() ![]() The Soviet Union and China, though victorious in the war, were also ravaged. Europe and Japan lay in ruins and would spend 15–20 years rebuilding the basis for economic life, with much assistance from the U.S. No advanced industrial nation has been invaded since 1945, and all wars since that time have been guerrilla conflicts in less-developed countries, conflicts involving less-developed countries with more advanced ones, or some combination of these two scenarios.įrom an economic standpoint, the war and its aftermath consumed much of the real and potential industrial production of the world over the period 1940–1960 (with the exception that the United States, its homeland untouched, was able to expand both its defense industries and its civilian economy very rapidly after 1945). ![]() The destructive technologies introduced during the war – foremost, the atomic bomb – made it very unlikely that a land-based conflict of similar scale and duration among the major nations could ever happen again, because of the potential for total destruction of all combatants. The Second World War saw the most far-reaching transformation of world politics to date. ![]()
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