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Emergence of the USA and the USSR - Coggle Diagram
Emergence of the USA and the USSR
each superpower
strength
create "spheres of influence"
Great powers
economic
political
superiority
military
Military reasons
USA
powerful armed forces
defeat
Nazi Germany
Japan
1945
biggest air force
nuclear weapons
USSR
larges land force
lacked strong military neighbours
Economic reasons
USA's economy
strengthened by the WWII
overcame all the other countries
production
wanted to
promote free trade
free trade
secure
markets
resources
avoid
devastating global economic slump
economic strength
prevent instability in Europe
help pay Western Europe postwar reconstruction
USSR's economy
badly damaged
agricultural land
left to waste
transport links
bombed and destroyed
housing
industry
influence
economies
Eastern Europe
Ideological reasons
USA and West
WWII was a victory for their ideology
liberal capitalist democracy
poitical system
right path for their nations
USSR
victory for their communism
its system was the right one for the post─war world
human costs
strengthened its claim
influence
how Europe had to be reconstructed