WW2 Axis Powers

The simple answer is: Yes.

Note that really there is only one class of battleship designed and build during WW2: the United States' Iowa class. All the rest of the battleships used by world powers were designed and built prior to the war (though several were finished during 1939-1940). However, the majority of aircraft carriers were designed and built during the war.

For the most part, pre-war "fleet" aircraft carriers were built on hulls about the same size as a large cruiser or battlecruiser (indeed, most of them were converted from such a ship sometime during their original construction process). As such, they were slightly smaller than contemporary battleships, both in size and in weight.

Comparing the primary aircraft carrier and battleship classes built during the actual war, you have:

Essex-class carrier:

Length: 820 ft (waterline), 872 ft (overall)

Beam: 93 ft (waterline), 147 ft (overall)

Draft: 34 ft full load

Displacement: 36,000 tons full load

Iowa-class battleship:

Length: 861 ft (waterline), 890 ft (overall)

Beam: 108 ft (both waterline and overall)

Draft: 36 ft full load

Displacement: 58,000 tons full load

The one-off IJN Shinano was built on the not-completed hull of a 3rd Yamato-class superbattleship. It was sunk by the USS Archerfish in Japanese home waters before final construction was completed. It was slightly larger than the Essex class, but displaced over twice as much.

Note, only the US and Japan built any notable number of large aircraft carriers during the war, and the US was the only power to build whole new battleships (though both Britain and Japan finished several under construction when the war began).

The following countries increased the size of their army by;

• Electing powerful leaders.
• Joining forces with other countries (As the Central Powers).
• Becoming more militarily centered.

(Its funny, this question is written exactly the same way only its in a text book call Americas Pathways to the Present. Next time read the book.)

Canada

then the soviet union and the ANZACs (Australia and New Zealand) and the united states.

the us and china and USSR plus free forces that evaded Germany's invasions

Let us read an eyewitness report.

Yoshitaka Kawamoto was thirteen years old when the bomb exploded over Hiroshima, in a classroom less than a kilometer away from the hypocenter:

"One of my classmates, I think his name is Fujimoto, he muttered something and pointed outside the window, saying, "A B-29 is coming." He pointed outside with his finger. So I began to get up from my chair and asked him, "Where is it?" Looking in the direction that he was pointing towards, I got up on my feet, but I was not yet in an upright position when it happened. All I can remember was a pale lightening flash for two or three seconds. Then, I collapsed. I don t know much time passed before I came to. It was awful, awful. The smoke was coming in from somewhere above the debris. Sandy dust was flying around. I was trapped under the debris and I was in terrible pain and that's probably why I came to. I couldn't move, not even an inch. Then, I heard about ten of my surviving classmates singing our school song. I remember that. I could hear sobs. Someone was calling his mother. But those who were still alive were singing the school song for as long as they could. I think I joined the chorus. We thought that someone would come and help us out. That's why we were singing a school song so loud. But nobody came to help, and we stopped singing one by one. In the end, I was singing alone."

She did not hear the blast. She only saw the lighting flash. I wouldn't try to come to explain why was that.