WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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Question
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USA and USSR come out as Super Powers
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Germans were mad about the division of Germany
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The US and USSR fought to annex parts of Europe
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The Germans convinced the Americans to fight the Russians
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Detailed explanation-1: -As World War II transformed both the United States and the USSR, turning the nations into formidable world powers, competition between the two increased. Following the defeat of the Axis powers, an ideological and political rivalry between the United States and the USSR gave way to the start of the Cold War.
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: -(iv) It had a complex communication network, vast energy resources including oil, iron and steel, (machinery) production and a transport sector that connected its remotest areas with efficiency. (vi) It had a domestic consumer industry that produced everything from pins to cars to make themselves self-dependent.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -It also prompted many cultural changes and social upheavals in former Soviet nations and smaller neighboring communist countries. Between 1989 and 1991, the gross national product in Soviet countries fell by 20 percent, ushering in a period of complete economic breakdown.