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Originally Posted by right-track
It was definitely the beginning of the end for the British empire.
The second world war just about broke us. I think we only finished paying off the lend/lease debt to the U.S and Canada in 2006!
Before WW1 Britain was the most powerful nation on earth. By the end of WW2 the U.S. took that dubious honour.
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Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empire also ceased to exist and not to forget that bolshevik revolution killed the Russian Empire. And although the League of Nations was created (if I remember correctly that led to United Nations after the WW II), new tensions were created because of the new gap between East and West Europe with the rise of Soviet Union. Yeah 20th century was truly fu
cked up. I don't even have to mention fascism.