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Emergence of superpowers - Coggle Diagram
Emergence of superpowers
USA
Economic reasons
better after WWII
agriculture increased
Industralization increased
could prevent instability in Europe
help with the reconstruction of the Western Europe
free trade
safe markets and resources
Military reasons
biggest air force in the world
nuclear weapons
Ideological reasons
liberal capitalist democracy
fill political instability in the West
Americans wanted their political system to spread through other nations
USSR
Economic reasons
badly damaged
agricultural lands had been lost
transport links/houses had been ruined
help the economies of Eastern Europe
these weren't independent after the war
Ideological reasons
communism over fascism
fill the political vacuum in the East
they believed their system should spread all over the world
Military reasons
largest land force power in the world
need of military neighbours
concidered superpowers
political
military
economic
superiority
Spheres of inlfuence