2007-01-13 16:05:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Definitely no. Totalitarian regimes like those suppress the independent thought necessary to make breakthroughs in Science and Technology. Don't forget that Einstein and many other high level scientists left Germany because they couldn't work under the Nazis. Most Japanese technology was ripped off from the west - they just worked harder to mass produce it.
2007-01-13 16:08:49 · answer #1 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. Germany had many advanced scientists and Japan did too, but it was the Cold War that drove the advances that have made the world the way it is. They were not progressive states, and, had they won, science would have stagnated. Without the Cold War ( the competion between the West and the Soviets), the space race, and various other sciences would not have advanced. The internet, when it first started, was just an idea to connect the military computers together.
2007-01-14 00:12:44 · answer #2 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I understand your question correctly, the answer is No. Most improvements to world standards of living are the result of private enterprise and both the Nazis and Japanese had state-controled economies.
2007-01-14 00:11:48 · answer #3 · answered by Knowledge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would have modernized the world, but "for the better"? That's the tricky part
2007-01-14 00:18:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible - who knows? What is certain is that the modernization would have benefited many fewer people than it has.
2007-01-14 00:09:35 · answer #5 · answered by PDY 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably be a nation of slaves to the government.
2007-01-14 00:09:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. We would be slaves.
2007-01-14 00:12:44 · answer #7 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋