USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -United States Becomes Singular Superpower During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were the world’s two superpowers. No other country could challenge them militarily. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, America rose to become the world’s only superpower.

Detailed explanation-2: -The conflict was based on the ideological and geopolitical struggle for global influence by these two superpowers, following their temporary alliance and victory against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945.

Detailed explanation-3: -The global standoff for dominance between the United States and the Soviet Union created in the aftermath of World War II affected all aspects of life in the postwar world.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. This hostility between the two superpowers was first given its name by George Orwell in an article published in 1945.