The Rise of the two World Superpowers It is often wondered how today's superpowers achieved their position of dominance. The fact is that the development of Russia and the United States into superpowers, can be traced to World War II. To be a superpower, a nation needs to have a strong economy, an overpowering military, international political power, and a strong national ideology. There are several factors that allowed these two to become superpowers: a …showed first 75 words of 2811 total…

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