Question

Conclusion of World War 2 for writing in a project
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Answer 1

Answer: Looking purely through an economic lens, although it took a little, ultimately Japan and Germany (the world's 3rd and 4th biggest economies respectively) definitively “beat” the British (which lost its empire and preeminence of its navy's control of the sea), France (which also lost its empire and the tremendous influence in the world), and of course Russia (even my country, Canada, which has only a fraction of Russia’s population, has a bigger GDP than Russia now in absolute terms, not just per capita).

So it could be looked at that the only big winners of the war on a long time frame were the USA, China, Japan, Germany, the nations that broke free from colonization and exploitation (African, S. Asian, S.E. Asian, East Asian, etc., including now the Eastern European and Baltic nations no longer under Russia's yoke), and Commonwealth nations other than the UK (South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada). Italy landed quite well in its feet as well.

I believe that hundreds of years from now the common perception will be that the Axis nations may have lost the war, but they won the peace.