USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The war resulted in the extension of the Soviet Union’s power to nations of Eastern Europe. It also enabled a communist movement to achieve power in China. It also marked the decisive shift of power in the world away from the state of Western Europe and toward the United States and the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -The legacy of the war would include the spread of communism from the Soviet Union into eastern Europe as well as its eventual triumph in China, and the global shift in power from Europe to two rival superpowers–the United States and the Soviet Union–that would soon face off against each other in the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-3: -The decentralization, demilitarization, denazification and democratization of Germany. The division of Germany and Berlin, and Austria and Vienna into the four occupations zones outlined at Yalta.

Detailed explanation-4: -By the end of World War II, much of Europe and Asia, and parts of Africa, lay in ruins. Combat and bombing had flattened cities and towns, destroyed bridges and railroads, and scorched the countryside. The war had also taken a staggering toll in both military and civilian lives.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Second World War resulted in the victory of the Allied powers. The US bombed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan thus ending World War II after the Japanese signed the “Instrument of Surrender’.