The Final Super Power: Continues) (The Previous Kingdom and what became of them) The EU: A Seventh Roman Revival in the Making In the devastated aftermath of World War II, it seemed unimaginable that Europe could rise again. Many venerable cities had been bombed into rubble. The dead were counted in the tens of millions. Old institutions and organizations ceased to exist. What happened next, fueled by U.S. dollars supplied under the Marshall Plan, was an economic miracle:Western Europe rebuilt and retooled its industry. Modernized from the ground up, in the 1950s and 60s many of defeated Germany’s factories began to outclass the factories of its national benefactor, the United States. The old dream of a peaceful European union led to an organization known as the European Common Market Amen
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