Germany and Japan were rebuilt from the ground up after 1945, France is now on the fifth republic, Spain, Portugal, and Greece shed dictatorships in the 1970s,

Germany and Japan were rebuilt from the ground up after 1945, France is now on the fifth republic, Spain, Portugal, and Greece shed dictatorships in the 1970s, some of Eastern Bloc now qualify as first world and have undergone a major change in 1989-91...