At the end of the war, millions of people were dead and millions more were homeless, the European economies had collapsed, and much of Europe's industrial infrastructure had been destroyed. The German pe… See more

The alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union began to deteriorate even before the war was over, when Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill exchanged a heated correspondence over whether the Polish gove… See more

As a general consequence of the war and in an effort to maintain international peace, the Allies formed the United Nations (UN), which officially came into existence on 24 October 1945. The UN replaced the defunct League of … See more