@John_F_kJr During World War II, the U.S. froze German, Italian, and Japanese assets under the Trading with the Enemy Act and later confiscated large portions of them. Yet after the war, the dollar didn't collapse—it became the world's dominant reserve currency.
@Ofer_binshtok There is no universally accepted death toll, but historians generally agree that the human losses were enormous:
•The populations of Shaanxi and Gansu provinces declined by roughly 20 million people during and after the conflict.