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Democracy (aka the Free World) and Communism combined to defeat Fascism in World War 2. It was only natural that these two ideologies should become adversaries after the war. The USA and USSR emerged as the two most powerful countries on the winning side, so they became the global superpowers for the next four decades. * The rivalry between the USA and USSR is long and complicated, and they became superpowers as a result, with Great Britain and France remaining as world powers for Democracy, and the People's Republic of China emerging as a world power for Communism. * In the postwar years, a country could not be a world power without a nuclear arsenal, which is why the five countries named above became the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Today, many other countries have nuclear weaponry, but they are not world powers, let alone superpowers.
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What tactics were used by the superpowers during the Cold War to influence Third World nations?
The union with allied countries.
Which nations were superpowers after world war 2?
The United States and the Soviet Union were the Superpowers after World War 2.
At the end of World War 2 there was only one superpower Who was it?
Funfact: The end of World War II saw the rise of TWO superpowers: The US and the Soviet Union. That's why the forty years of glaring at each other and spying is considered a Cold War instead of two countries not liking each other.
What two countries were viewed as superpowers after world war 2 and what was their relationship?
USA and Russia were viewed by many as 'super powers'. Their relationship was antagonistic.
Era of high tension between the world's superpowers?
Cold War :)
