Question

Which two crucial influences shaped the post war reconstruction?

Answer 1

Name the two crucial influences that shaped the post-war reconstruction. Answer: The first of the crucial influences that shaped the post-war reconstruction was the US's emergence as the dominant economic, political and military power in the Western world.

Answer 2

Answer:

• The first of the crucial influences that shaped the post-war reconstruction was the US’s emergence as the dominant economic, political and military power in the Western world.
• The second was the phenomenal rise of the Soviet Union.
• It had made huge sacrifices to defeat Nazi Germany in the Second World War and transformed itself from a backward agricultural country into a world power during the very years when the capitalist world was trapped in the Great Depression.