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• International organizations – League of
Nations, UN
• New powers emerged – the U.S. in both wars,
Japan after WWI, Soviet Union after WWII
Western European superiority
was questioned
• Independence movements
grew in European-held colonies
– India, SE Asia, and Africa
Results of WWI
• Losers were punished more severely
(reparations)
• Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Russian,
and German Empire fell.
• The Great Depression?
Results of WWII – The Cold War
Division
of the
world
into U.S.
and its
allies
against
the
U.S.S.R.
and its
allies.