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230: The Gold Standard

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The End of World War Two

After World War II, the there was only one functioning economy that came out. And that was the United States. Europe was decimated. England had spent all of its basically all of its colonial power,. barely surviving World War One and and choking to death the world's two largest economies. Japan was destroyed. Russia is behind the curve on becoming a major industrial power at Japan was destruction. At the end of World War Two United States is the only game in town when it comes to an economy. They entered the war having essentially a crappy Navy and they entered the war with the world's strongest Navy. The U.S. makes a decision at the end of the war. It's not

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