Germany Germans were left to rebuild nation. This rebuilding process took a long time to get things back to normal. Germans immigrated to the U.S after the war. about 1,161,000 people immigrated to U.S from 1949-1960's . So the German population went down. A lot of East Germany was given to Poland, so territory has changed in Germany.
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Japan
Transportation networks were severely damaged. It was more difficult to get around Japan, but now transportation is fine now. Okinawa was returned to Japan in 1972. When Japan lost it back in 1894. 5/7 of Tokyo's population left the ruined city after the War. Imagine if nobody left Tokyo, it would have around 20 million people living there today!
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Soviet Union
It took 30 years for Soviet Union to return population back to pre - warn numbers. A quarter of the country's captital resources had been destroyed. 12,400,000 civilians were killed during the war. a lot of USSR 's population was warn down from the war. This meant it's population was warn down. WW2 affects Soviet Union's population. Unbelievable. Although many deaths occurred, Soviet Union became a leading world power.
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Poland
22% of Poland's population was killed. 90% of the deaths were civilians. Poland remained under Soviet Union control. Poland territory was changed immediately after the war. Poland now has more land land than before WW2
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China
80% of China's deaths were by civilians. Imagine what China would be like today without any civilian deaths in WW2 ! China created The Peoples Republic of China. China helped North Korea in the Korean war. If the Peoples Republic of China wasn't made, they wouldn't be allies in the Korean War.
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Territory after WW2
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