After World War II, why couldn t Britain rebuild the glory of the British Empire?

Because at the beginning of World War II, Britain confronted Germany alone for more than a year, and the war was unfavorable and consumed a lot of strength. It had to turn to the United States for help, and Britain spent a lot of money to get American aid. After the war, the colonies were lost, and the British economy fell sharply, so Britain declined.

Because after World War II, the British people were very disunited. So after World War II, Britain went into decline. The UK is likely to see rapid development in the near future at the current rate.

Because Britain also lost a lot of manpower and material resources in World War II, and the country's finances are also facing a great crisis, they quickly declined without economic support, and it is difficult to rise now.

Although Britain was the victorious country, it was hit hard by Germany in World War II, and in the European and African theaters, Britain invested a lot of troops and consumed a lot of British national strength. Britain, as a declining empire, could never rise again.

During World War II, most of Britain's overseas assets were purchased by the United States at a low price to repay the United States for Britain's **etc.**; Some of the colonies became independent after the war. Britain suddenly lost a large number of overseas assets, colonial raw materials, and dumping markets, and Britain itself had few resources, and could not talk about hegemony, relying on the previous patent fees for decades.

Under the general trend of nationalist awakening and the wave of independence. Britain gave up on its own initiative, and the United States also played a role in fueling the flames. Britain expected to pay more than it would pay for maintaining the empire in the future.

Why not continue to achieve the unification achieved by force in a more rational, effective and safe way, so the British Empire withdrew from India, abandoned Canada, New Zealand and other places, and disintegrated itself.

The independence of the colonies, when the British economy was in ruin after World War II, received aid from the United States, but this aid was conditional, and Britain has not recovered until now.

After the Second World War, Britain lost a lot of colonies, and there were three main reasons - the result of the Yalta Conference, the result of the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the reason for the decline of Britain's status!

Results of the Yalta Conference.

In the conference, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union had a consistent policy, that is, to control different areas of Germany, but they were not divided, but in fact, Germany was given to Brother Feng for more than 40 years in this conference, the reason is that these three countries have placed a large number of military personnel and military systems in the areas where Germany has stationed troops and actually controlled them. And this stay is close to 40 years, so for Germany, it is essentially a division of Germany! In fact, it was mainly the United States and the Soviet Union that made the main division of Germany.

The United States did not actually get much benefit!

The result of the US-Soviet struggle for hegemony.

After the Yalta Conference, the two poles of the socialist camp headed by the Soviet Union and the capitalist camp led by the United States began to form in the international arena. Later East Germany and West Germany were actually created by these two camps, the two poles of the world! So far, the Soviet Union and the United States have become the two most powerful companies in the world, and Britain can only be excluded and can only be regarded as a middle power!

Britain's position is declining.

It should be said that since the end of World War II, Britain has completely lost its colonies all over the world, including those in Asia, but also in Africa, and also in Europe. And the colonies of the United States have basically become independent, and the United States has formed the largest superpower. Therefore, in the Yalta Conference after World War II, Britain no longer had a dominant position and could only be at the mercy of the USSR and the United States!

The role that China can play is a foil! Therefore, Britain is the biggest loser after the Yalta conference! Of course, many of Britain's colonies fell into the hands of Russia and the United States, and even a small part of Britain's colonies were divided by Japan!

Because at that time, he couldn't protect himself! Germany had destroyed France, and the next major secret target was England. It's hard for him to protect himself, ** can still take care of so many overseas colonies! Moreover, during World War II, many countries fought for national independence in World War II.

Weakening of national strength, the trend of independent fishholes, the establishment of the United Nations (a new international pattern) and other reasons.

With the rise of various countries, especially Germany, which took over the powerful France in Europe, in a few months, Britain was also defeated, and it was difficult for him to protect himself, let alone his colony.

At that time, Britain could no longer resist the German fascists! Seeing that the country is going to be destroyed! It's hard to protect yourself! How to control the colony! Later, the United States entered the war and defeated Germany! So Britain has to make certain sacrifices!

This was the result of the Yalta Accord and the Potsdam Proclamation of the victorious powers' final division of territory, because Britain and Europe as a whole ended the war in large part because of the entry of powerful American allies, so Britain had to make some sacrifices for the United States.

The war drained Britain so much that it could no longer maintain a large colony.

The nation is independent, the country is independent, and if it weren't for the island, it would be too difficult for Germany to kill it, and Britain would be afraid that it would be difficult to protect itself.

Because it was defeated, it is a fact of reality.

I think the main thing is "success is also colony, defeat is also colony".

The vast colonies brought great benefits to Britain, but at the same time they were a burden and the beginning of degeneration.

In the second industrial revolution, Britain was reluctant to adopt new technologies and equipment, and its economic development was slow. Why?

Because 1Britain has a vast overseas colony, and it can make huge profits without updating technology, which leads to laziness, lack of progress, and lack of innovation.

2.A large amount of capital has been invested overseas, so that there is a lack of sufficient capital for industrial development.

3.The United States took advantage of the Second Industrial Revolution and developed rapidly to catch up with and surpass Britain. Britain lost its monopoly as the "factory of the world".

4.The colonial and semi-colonial economies developed slowly due to their long-term repression (do you think how much industrial output could the colonies have?).Coupled with the gradual collapse of the colonial system, the Dominion secession movement intensified.

The inevitability of history, when the moon is full, it will be lost, when the water is full, it will overflow, and the extremes of things will be reversed, and the prosperity will decline.

The British Empire did not fall at the end, it used to be called the Empire on which the sun never sets, because it has many colonies, and there are all states on the earth, but due to the First World War, the national strength has been greatly lost, and the former glory is gone. In addition, I would like to say that the United States also surpassed other countries in national strength because of World War I, because the battlefield did not affect its territory.

The aggressor will eventually perish, this is an irreversible truth.

The British Empire will fall Reason:

In general, the decline of Britain is generally recognized as occurring in the 100-year period from 1850 to 1950. Too many things have happened in this century, and there are many events closely related to the fate of the British Empire, and the main line of Britain's decline in this century is still relatively obvious.

The Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914): Bessemer Converter Steelmaking + AC – Railroad + Telegraph – Rise of the Continental States;

Second Boer War (1899-1902): British Victory – Shift of Emphasis Back to Europe – Stoppage of Colonial Expansion and Weakening of Control;

World War II (1939-1945): Threat of Homeland Invasion – Lend-Lease Act – Complete dismantling of the colonial system.

The first is the success of the industrial revolution and the failure of the industrial revolution. The British Empire was the beneficiary of the first industrial revolution. Since the Napoleonic Wars were raging on the European continent during the outbreak of the First Industrial Revolution, the British Isles stopped and there was an environment for peaceful development.