4.World War II and its aftermath had the United States emerge as a developing world power.

Running Head : WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH

World War II and its aftermath had the United States

emerge as a developing world power

Abstract

The United States of America , being away from the main theatres of war had faced an excellent opportunity to advance in political and economical power in the postwar world . The least military casualties among the Allies and Axis either , a never-ruined industry that had advanced rapidly due to the large numbers of government military s an untouched infrastructure and weakening of political and economical rivals

had brought the opportunity to become the dominant power in the world for the USA . And due to effective steps taken by the Government this opportunity was not lost .World War II and its aftermath had the United States emerge as a developing world power

Answer : True

World War II and several years after the War have changed position of the United States on political and economical maps of the world greatly There are several major reasons why the United States has met the opportunity to advance in power and to become one of the ultimate forces in the world

The first reason is that the United States had never seen enemy troops on its territory during the World War II . There were no devastating battles on the US lands , no occupation , so the military and civil infrastructure of the USA remained unharmed , whereas the USSR and European allies faced a situation that was quite the contrary . Their territories were often ravaged , cities and villages destroyed by heavy bombing , important industrial objects and transportation networks seriously damaged or destroyed entirely in battles or later , during the time of occupation

The United States was among the countries with the lowest casualties According to The History Place (http /www .historyplace .com ) US casualties were roughly 0 .4 of prewar population of the country , or 500 000 of men . All of these were military casualties , and , unlike the other Allies nor Axis countries , there were no civilian casualties in the USA

Concerning the economical situation , the United States , being far away from the main theatres of war , had made good use of the situation and reached an extraordinarily high production rate growth . Lend-lease military supplies were an inexhaustible source of s for industrial companies . It is not surprising , so , that during the war years industrial production and national income of the USA have doubled according to Visualizing Economics

At the end of the World War II , the United States had successfully accumulated two thirds of the world 's gold reserves and the industrial production of the USA came to two thirds of the world 's . According to Alan S . Milward (1979 , the United States emerged in 1945 in an incomparably stronger position economically than in 1941 . By 1945 the foundations of the United States ' economic domination over the next quarter of a century had been secured

The US was also undoubtedly techonogically superior to the rest of the world , as well

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