The End of European Colonies

WWI created nationalist movements that were against colonial rule and all WWII did was reinforce and speed up that process. The Japanese had already overrun the colonial empires and the colonies that fought on the Allied side were aware that the Allied forces were under the principle of self-determination.
Countries also had no more resources [...]

Aftermath of the War: Emergence of the Cold War

Yep WWII wasn’t succeeded by total peace and everything was far from hunky dory. The Cold War started and lasted through much of the 1980s.

The Conferences at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam

Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt, leaders of the Big 3, met at Tehran to decided the future course of the war during November 1943. They [...]

The Nazi New Order

Hitler believed only the Germans could dominate and organize Europe.

The Nazi Empire

Nazi empire stretched from English Channel to the outskirts of Moscow. It wasn’t anything close to an organized empire with an efficient government.
There were some neutral states and there were some states that felt increasingly restricted by the Germans as the war progressed.
Some [...]