Agreed. Every great power today was profoundly molded by it. America & Soviet Union became the sole superpowers. It basically decided the communist government of China. It eventually set free the other next great powers, such as India and Nigeria, from colonial rule. The impact on technology was equally profound. The computer, radar, the jet, the turbo pumped liquid rocket, the drone, the atomic bomb...

I mean, an entirely new source of energy was first harnessed (really the first since the invention of fire) and the first human made object was sent (briefly) into space...