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Probably the most significant outcome of World War II was the destruction of the old world order, a process that began in WWI. The old world order was a political system with many power points - Germany, Russian, France, USA, Japan, etc. Each had its own interests and mainly operated independent of one another. All were colonial powers to varying extents. The center of world political influence was Europe, varying from specific place to specific place (Berlin, London, Paris all had the top spot at various times). By the end of WWII all this had ended. No European power has ever regained the power and prestige that several enjoyed prior to WWI. The loss of power of these states is most striking when one notes the loss of colonial empire. The world largely divided into two blocs, one led by America, the other by Russia. Europe ended WWII as merely the stage upon which other great nations play out their political games. The world political capital moved to the USA, where the UN headquarters was set up in New York City. The end of European world dominance meant that other nations began to flex their political muscle - thus the rise of Jewish nationalism and Israel, the rise of Arab and Chinese nationalism.

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