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What were the results of World War II? Detailed answer
Directory / Big encyclopedia. Questions for quiz and self-education Did you know? What were the results of World War II? The Second World War left a seal on the entire history of the world in the second half of the XNUMXth century. The war cost 60 million lives in Europe, to which must be added the many millions who died in the Pacific. During the war years, millions of people left their former places of residence. Huge material losses during the war. On the European continent, thousands of cities and villages were turned into ruins, plants, factories, bridges, roads were destroyed, a significant part of the vehicles were lost. Agriculture was particularly hard hit by the war. Huge areas of agricultural land were abandoned, the number of livestock was reduced by more than half. Famine was added to the hardships of the war in the post-war period. Many experts believed then that Europe could not recover in the shortest possible time, it would take more than one decade. After the war, the problems of post-war settlement came to the fore. The victory of the anti-fascist coalition in World War II led to a new balance of power in the world. As a result of the defeat of fascism, the prestige of the Soviet Union increased, and the influence of democratic forces increased. The balance of forces within the capitalist system has changed. Defeated Germany, Italy and Japan dropped out of the ranks of the great powers for a while. Weakened the position of France. Even Great Britain - one of the three great powers of the anti-fascist coalition - has lost its former influence. But the power of the United States has increased enormously. Possessing a monopoly on atomic weapons and the largest army, far surpassing other countries in the field of economy, science, technology, the United States has become the hegemon of the capitalist world. The main directions of the post-war peace settlement were outlined during the war by the leading powers of the anti-fascist coalition. At the conferences of the leaders of the USSR, the USA, Great Britain in Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam, as well as at the meeting of the leaders of the USA, Great Britain and China in Cairo, the main questions were agreed: on territorial changes, on the attitude towards the defeated fascist states and the punishment of war criminals, on the creation of a special international organization to maintain international peace and security. The allied powers decided to occupy fascist Germany and militaristic Japan in order to eradicate militarism and fascism. The territorial seizures of Germany, Italy and Japan were cancelled. The USSR, the USA and England declared that it was necessary to restore the independence of Austria and Czechoslovakia, to return Northern Transylvania to Romania. The Allies agreed to draw the border between Germany and Poland along the line of the Oder and Neisse rivers. The eastern border of Poland was to run along the Curzon Line. The city of Koenigsberg and the surrounding areas were transferred to the Soviet Union. Germany and its allies had to pay reparations to the countries that became victims of fascist aggression. It was supposed to release from the power of Japan all the territories that it seized during the war years. Korea was promised independence. Northeast China (Manchuria), the island of Taiwan and other Chinese islands captured by Japan were supposed to be returned to China. South Sakhalin was returned to the Soviet Union and the Kuril Islands, which once belonged to Russia, were transferred. The full implementation of the principles of a peaceful settlement agreed between the allies presupposed the continuation of cooperation between the USSR, the USA and Great Britain. However, after the end of the war, the contradictions between the main states of the anti-fascist coalition escalated. Two superpowers appeared in the world - the USA and the USSR, two poles of power, to which all other countries began to orient themselves and which to a decisive extent determined the dynamics of world development. The United States has become the guarantor of Western civilization. Their main adversary was the Soviet Union, which now has allies. The discrepancy between the value systems that they represented predetermined their rivalry, and it was precisely this rivalry until the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. became the core of the development of the entire system of international relations. Author: Irina Tkachenko
How many continents have a Mediterranean climate? The Mediterranean climate - with moderate temperatures, mild winters and very rare precipitation in summer, as you might guess from the name, is inherent in the territories on the Mediterranean coast. However, not only them: according to the international classification, the Mediterranean climate is also inherent in the California coast, the western coasts of South Africa and Chile, the southwestern coast of Australia, as well as some places on the Black Sea - for example, Anapa or Tuapse.
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