A New World was the phoenix that emerged out of the ashes and smoke of World War II, a world where two large and colossal countries were bitter adversaries, both with nuclear weapons. ... World War 2 had made the United States and Russia the two most powerful countries in the world. ... Prior to World War II, the US followed a policy of "isolationism", whereby the U.S refused to interfere in world politics. However the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, just two years after the war began, as well as the Axis powers declaring war two days after the attack, brought the US into World War II, someth...

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