Effects:
- The United Nations was established
- Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, all major
powers in 1939, were reduced in importance after 1945.
- The U.S. and the Soviet Union emerged as
superpowers.
- Germany, Italy and Japan were stripped of all
lands they seized before and during the war.
- Great Britain, France, U.S., and the Soviet
Union each maintained military occupation of a zone of Germany.
- The U.S.S.R. dominated other Eastern European
countries.
- Japan was occupied by U.S. forces until 1952.
- The use of the atomic bomb against japan marked the beginning of the nuclear age.