Did World War II Make World War III Impossible?

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”-Albert Einstein

Fifty-two million souls perished in the storm of World War II. The actions engaged after World War I from the Treaty of Versailles became the ultimate cause of World War II. After World War II, the United States procured countless undertakings to insure that no greater cataclysmic event would propel the people of the world into the grasp of a one-world government. Prior to World War II, no one had the power to destroy mankind. There would be wars unrestricted in terms of weapons used, territory, or combatants involved, but nothing that would lead to mutually assured destruction. However, after World War II and the efforts of the Manhattan Project, leaders in the modern world now hold nuclear weapons that encompass the power to blast humanity from the face of the earth. World leaders knew after World War II that if they were to pursue the same actions made following World War I that mankind would be placed back into a rat race leading to a Nuclear World War III. Did World War II make World War III impossible, impractical, or inevitable?

The mistakes made from World War I were well-defined in the Treaty of Versailles when this “peace pact” required Germany to pay billions in war reparations that ultimately drove Germany into economic shambles, creating the perfect conditions for Hitler to rise and take over with his totalitarian regime. The treaty of Versailles reduced the Germany army to 100,000 men and allotted Saarland, an industrial region of Germany rich in coal and iron, to France. The treaty left Germany handicapped not only physically, but also emotionally after World War I. Furthermore, the T...

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...ts to women and freedom of religion. Moreover, the horrors in the genocide of the European Jews brought on a growing demand for a Jewish state. The territory of Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, was promised by the League of Nations after World War but was never granted. The United States created the state of Israel after World War II giving Palestine land to the Jewish people to make up for their treatment from the war. This was controversial and eventually sparked the Arab-Israeli war and has led to terrorism and major issues in the Middle East today.

The fact that we defeated the Nazis, Mussolini, imperial Japan, and stopped Soviet expansion swelled America’s sense of pride as a global power. However, the United States has now been a super power for more than half a century, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, have been the sole superpower for over twenty years.