COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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England and France increased their overseas colonial possessions.
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Japan and Germany became dominant military powers.
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The United States and the Soviet Union emerged as international superpowers.
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The Communists gained control over most of Western Europe.
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Detailed explanation-1: -S1: After the Second World War USA emerged as a dominant economic and political power in the west. S2: The Soviet Union emerged as a global power from being a socially backward nation.
Detailed explanation-2: -The superpowers were the USA & the USSR as they had emerged from WW2 in strong positions. Both countries had large populations & strong economies as both had benefitted from supplying arms & munitions during WW2. These two powers competed with each other both economically & politically over the next 50 years.
Detailed explanation-3: -After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the world’s two “Superpowers” with the military and political strength to influence worldwide events. economies.
Detailed explanation-4: -British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said, “The only thing worse than having allies is not having them.” In World War II, the three great Allied powers-Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union-formed a Grand Alliance that was the key to victory.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Soviet Union Occupies Eastern Europe At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union occupied Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland and eastern Germany. Great Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union divided Germany and Berlin into four occupation zones to be administered by the four countries.