What wars or major events happened directly after World War 2?

Answer 1

Answeryou could say that Germany and japan started to become the most globalized countries in the world

look it up jap now has a public train that floats using electromagnetic energy

and Germany are the worlds largest supplier of resources in the majority of all resources

America and Britain didn't really win the war

Let's Put the Cynicism Aside

The most significant event that happened immediately after WWII was probably the great divide between the two largest former allies: the United States and the Soviet Union. On the European Front, Stalin continued to occupy the land they took from the German army (the Soviet Zone of Germany and the East of it), and in response, the rest of the Allies also maintained their military and later on economic presence in Western Europe. On the Pacific Front, the US supported South Korea in the Korean War (which led to the "equal" division of the Korean peninsula), and patrolled the Taiwan Strait after the Communist takeover of China. In addition, the US administration in Japan also turned its support from the Communist and Socialist fractions in Japan to the more conservative (or some say nationalistic) Liberal Democratic Party.

The seemingly "generous" financial aid to Germany and Japan after WWII was a result of at least two issues:

(1) After WWI, according to the international protocol of the time, Germany was heavily fined for war damages, which ruined the Weimar economy (with hyperinflation) and was arguably a direct reason for the rise of the Nazi regime (Hitler was elected as the Chancellor because he promised not to pay war fines and to restore the German economy). In response to this, by the end of WWII, the Allies agreed that Germany and Japan should be rehabilitated into the international order not via punitive measures, but by economic and ideological assimilation.

(2) Both Germany and Japan are literally in the middle of Europe and the Pacific respectively, thus making them strategically crucial in the Cold War. Both countries recovered economically because of the war industries, and later on, the conversion of some of these resources to heavy industries (most notably, car and machine making).

Despite their economic growth, Germany and Japan faced huge political and social challenges, and the paths toward what we now perceive as economic miracles were often traumatic to many people who physically worked for them. From their perspectives, their post-war economic affluence certainly did not match the economic and political prowess of the US and the UK. It is often deceptive to look at signs of material modernity as an index to how well a country fare.