What countries were formed after World War Two?

Question

What countries were formed after World War Two?
Was there anything special about World War Two that I should know in that special, oh so dreaded case of exams?

Answer 1

Israel was formed after WW2. Germany was divided into East and West Germany (they are back together since 1991) Czechoslovakia was created but later split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

WW2 had VE day (Victory in Europe) and VJ day (Victory in Japan.) The weapon that won the war in Europe was radar. The main reason we won is that Hitler was stupid and decided to attack Russia therefore causing a war on two fronts.

The weapon that won the Pacific part of the war was the nuclear bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We bombed because it appeared that Japan would not surrender and we wanted to save American lives. Truman didn't really know the extent of nuclear fallout back then.

Answer 2

If you mean a country formed as a result of WW2, then probably Israel (1948) is the most obvious. Otherwise, there were some borders shifting etc.
Pakistan split off of Imperial India in 1947.
Special about WW2
Largest conflict in human history, I think that is #1
Established Soviet Russia and the US as "superpower" and initiated a bi-polar world until the USSR collapsed in 1988/89.
Something most folks ignore, is with the invasion of Soviet troops into Eastern Europe, this spawned the largest mass migration of people in modern times.
6M Jews and 5 1/2million other ethnicities murdered.
24 million Russians (well technically "Soviets" as there were Ukrainians, Georgians etc who aren't ethnically Russian) dead. The paranoia about Germany will be behind most Soviet attitudes to the West throughout the Cold War.
!0s of millions of Chinese murdered during the Japanese occupation. (As with Russia, one can see Chinese suspicion of Japan even now in 2007; specifically reactions to Japanese arming against N. Korea.)
There, that oughta get you at least a "B" :)