Compare and contrast each country's pre-war and post-war gures. What conclusions can we draw from the comparison? How did this aect your "power ranking"?

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Unfortunately, you did not include the countries you are referring to neither the power ranking. Without that information, we do not know what are the countries of this question or the name of the war.

However, doing some research and using traditional concepts of the history of wars, we can comment on the following general terms.

We are going to refer to World War II.

Before the war, Germany amassed great military power due to many technological advances that other countries couldn't develop first. This gave Nazi leader Adolph Hitler the confidence to carry on with his plans, invaded Poland, and initiate World War II.

On the Allied side, France and Great Britain combined the weaponry and battleground experience to confront Hitler's troops, but they needed the numbers of the Soviet Union to present a serious defense. Things got very difficult for the Allied Forces and the United States had to abandon its foreign policy of neutrality after the Japanese attack over Pearl Harbor Iland in December 1941 and President Roosevelt decided to enter the international conflict.

After the war was over, and taking into consideration that Europe was the battlefield of the conflict, all the European nations involved resulted in huge damages, deaths, and destruction.

The United States came up with the Marshall Plan to help West European countries to recover from the war and those countries generated a deep debt to the United States. The US increased its power and a final ranking regarding the military could be this.

1.- The United States. 2.- The Soviet Union. 3.- Great Britain. 4.- France. 5.- Germany.

paul willis (born 1950) is a british social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies. paul willis' work is widely read in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and education, his work emphasizing consumer culture, socialization, music, and popular culture. he was born in wolverhampton[1] and received his education at the university of cambridge and at the university of birmingham. he worked at centre for contemporary cultural studies and subsequently at the university of wolverhampton. he was a professor of social/cultural ethnography at keele university. in the autumn of 2010, he left keele university and is now a professor at princeton university.

paul willis’s work has focused mainly, but not exclusively, on the ethnographic study of lived cultural forms in a wide variety of contexts. from highly structured to weakly structured ones, willis examines how practices of `informal cultural production` to produce and construct cultural worlds `from below`.[2]

trained in literary criticism at cambridge,[2] paul willis received his phd in 1972 from the centre for contemporary cultural studies at birmingham university where he remained as senior research fellow until 1981. he gave a paper at the 9th symposium of the natiohnal deviancy conference in january 1972 entitled 'a motor-bike subculture

during the 1980`s willis served as youth policy adviser to wolverhampton borough council in the english midlands. there he produced the youth review (published by the council and ashgate) which formed the basis for youth policy and for the formation of the democratically elected youth council, both still functioning. during the 1990s he served first as head of the division of media, communications and cultural studies, and then as a member of the professoriate at the university of wolverhampton. in 2000 willis co-founded the sage journal, ethnography. in 2003 willis was hired as a head professor of social and cultural ethnography at keele university.