A shift in the world axis of power is seen as the major result of the war. Power shifted from Europe because most of the countries had been crippled by the war and their economies were left yearning for intervention. The war had taken place against a backdrop of world depression which made it even worse for the European nations. Japan which had been a major player in its quest for world power was defeated in an expensive war which made its quest for the domination of Asia a dream. Two new super powers emerged in the long run. They included the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States of America (USA) (Grenville, 2001).
The United States rose to power because it had long refrained from joining the war and had only provided material and intellectual resources to the allied powers. As a result, most of the industries in the U.S benefited from economic gains resulting from exportation of materials to the allied powers. Thus the country became a leader in the manufacturing sphere because of the war. This led to expansions in the fields of agriculture, technology and military. The U.S. had an upper hand in the war because of its strategic location and hence suffered very little. War was concentrated in Europe and it would have been expensive for the war to be conducted on American soil because of the distance and the military superiority of the U.S. which had started emerging as a powerful entity (Key, 1985; Wettig, 2008).
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[...] The UN peace keeping missions have also been important in promoting peace in volatile areas in the world. However, critics have asserted that the UN has not been an autonomous body that seeks to protect the interests of its members. They have claimed that the UN was instituted so that it may promote the American ideologies while protecting their vested interests. The United States has been seen in occasions to trounce the decisions unanimously agreed upon by the UN (Jones, 2009). [...]
[...] This led to expansions in the fields of agriculture, technology and military. The U.S. had an upper hand in the war because of its strategic location and hence suffered very little. War was concentrated in Europe and it would have been expensive for the war to be conducted on American soil because of the distance and the military superiority of the U.S. which had started emerging as a powerful entity (Key, 1985; Wettig, 2008). But there exists a “special relationship” between Great Britain and the U.S. [...]
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[...] Donor organizations and sources of funding like the U.S. mounted pressure on countries that indulged in the colonization process to end imperialist type of rule and allow self governance (Grenville, 2001). The pressure by the emergent super powers namely USSR and U.S. is speculated to have been caused by the need for the countries to expand their influence of power and have a share in controlling resources in other countries. U.S which was capitalistic in nature felt that it had to protect the colonies from the increasing popularity of communist ideologies that were spread by the USSR. [...]
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