World War 2 was remarkably different that other wars, especially in terms of the significance of it's outcome.The victor not only fought to win, but to have the opportunity to shape the world that we would live in for years to come. I think that's why, of any of the events that we have connected to today, World War 2 has had the most direct impact.
When it comes to wars, especially a big one such as this, it is often times difficult to pin a specific event that led to the eventual victory. Wars are determined by the efforts of every last man who fights for their respective side in a culmination that it never even know until the war is over. In this case, the retaliation of the Allies towards the Nazi Regime as a whole event is what made our lives the way they are today. There are no more empires (and I mean the conquesting, territorial, evil ones) to shapes the oppression in different parts of the world but rather a unified world conference (This would be a reference to the United Nations for those of you who do not teach history.) that respects and maintains the rights of each nation as its own entity. In the picture below, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill meet aboard a battleship during the Atlantic Conference, one of the main events that led to the formation of the United Nations.
Not many people truly even know this but our natural freedoms that we live by in today's society are almost double in number from those that existed in the pre-WW2 20th century. I mean, I don't know about you, but where I live, the government a lot of the times will refrain from the genocidal killing of an entire race. Or at least they try. Hey...stuff happens.
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