EDIT:
Context: This is an archived article from 1939 by “Foreign Affairs”.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/germany/1939-04-01/will-hitler-save-democracy
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It’s difficult to quantify, but I think there is a compelling argument to be made - just off of my head, WW2 led to:
- the fall of German autocracy/restoration of German democracy (though Hitler did kinda break that one in the first place)
- Italian and Japanese democracy
- redistribution of wealth/power in Britain
- the 4th french republic
- alignment of the European democracies
- establishment of the UN
Italian and Japanese democracy
And, albeit on a longer timeframe, Taiwanese and South Korean democracy.
- end of the British empire
- eventual formation of the EU to replace the League of Nations
But also
- invention of the nuclear bomb
- by extension, escalation of the cold war
- numerous coups against democratic leaders and proxy wars due to it
