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Emergence of superpowers - Coggle Diagram
Emergence of superpowers
USA
Military reasons
Nuclear weapons
Biggest air force in the world
Economic reasons
Help with the reconstruction of Western Europe
Could prevent instability in Europe
Safe markets and resource
Better after WWII
Agriculture increased
Industralization increased
Free trade
Ideological reasons
Liberal capitalism democracy
Political instability in the west
USA thought that its political system was the right path for other nations, so USA wanted to spread it.
USSR
Economic reasons
Lost/Destroyed
Agricultural land had been lost
Transport links and housing
Help the economies of Eastern Europe
These states weren't economically independent after the war
Ideological Reasons
Communism over fasicm
Fill the political vacuum in the Eaast
They thought that their political system should spread arround the world
Military reasons
Need of military neighbours
Largest land force powe in the world