America

Throughout the history of war, the saying to the victor goes the spoils was the norm but all that changed at the end of WW 2. The United States stood alone as the world's super power and was in the position to take what every territory they desired but they instead set about helping their enemies rebuild. After the surrender of Japan the US began the process of helping to bring back Japan into the international community by strengthening military, political and economic ties while it was rebuilding Germany with the Marshall Plan. One can only speculate how the world would have looked if Germany and Japan had won the war. Would they have been so gracious. The US was a democracy and the people did not desire world domination but rather they wanted to get on with their lives and forget about war. God Bless America.