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How Did These Affected Countries Recover From the War?
After the war Europe was in ruins. Millions of refugees were homeless, Europe's economy collapsed, and it's industrial structure was destroyed and not to mention millions of people died. Germany had been punished for their misdeads, Germans had been expelled from European states and territories, their economy was slmost nonexistent and Germany was now divided into four occupational zones which were controlled by the French, USA, Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. The Axis powers and enemies of the Allies had to pay around $300,000,000 to the Allies for war reparations. The Axis powers and Europe in general were in horrible times. However, The USA had come up with the Marshall Plan which was a recovery programm for rebuilding and creating stronger economic foundations for Europe. The plan was established in 1947 and was in operation for 4 years. America had given $16 billion U.S. dollars to Europe and helped Europe get back on its feet

Japan also had a hard time recovering. After the two atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan surrendered and was then occuppied by the allied forces much like Germany. Japan was forced to hand over all of their military possessions such as their tanks, ammo, battle ships and airships to the allied forces and to get rid of their army. After the war, Japan economy was in ruins much like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Soon after, America also helped Japan get back up by contributing around 3 billion dollars. In 1947, Japan adopted a new constitution and the allied forces moved out of Japan. In 1952 Japan was then accepted into the United Nations and from then on experience a rapid growth much like Germany and the rest of Europe had recovered mostly from the War.

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