Much of Europe, a continent that had dominated the world for several centuries, was in ruins, and host to the armies of the United States and the Soviet Union, who now held the balance of global power.
En stor del af Europa, et kontinent som havde domineret verden i adskillige århundreder, lå nu i ruiner og var besat af USA og Sovjetunionen, som nu var grundlaget for den globale magtbalance.