the north- east of India. Then, along with the Chinese, they pushed the Japanese out of Burma, and liberated Malaya and Singapore. Hiroshima and Nagasaki,August As a top secret project, using the latest scientific advances, the US developed an atomic bomb immensely more powerful than conventional explosives. The Japanese generals refused to surrender and finally the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
As the Japanese still refused to surrender, another atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Japan ultimately announced surrender on August and formally signed September bringing an end to World War II. E W N S Not to Scale ATOM BOMB BLAST AT JAPAN TOKYO JAPAN PACIFIC OCEAN HIROSHIMA CHINA NORTH KOREA SOUTH KOREA RUSSIA NAGASAKI (c) Effects of the War New geo-political power alignment: World War II changed the world in fundamental ways. The world was polarized into two main blocs led by superpowers, one led by the United States with a pronounced anti-Communist ideology, and the other by Soviet Russia.
Europe was divided into two: Communist and non-Communist. Nuclear proliferation: The United States and the Soviet Union entered into a race to have more nuclear powered weapons. They built a large stockpile of such weapons. Defence spending sky-rocketed in many countries.
International agencies: Many international agencies, in particular the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund came into existence providing a forum for countries large and small. Colonial powers were forced to give independence to former colonies in a process of decolonization. India was the first to achieve independence.