Rise of Superpowers After WWII It is often wondered how the superpowers achieved their position of dominance. It seems that the maturing of the two superpowers, Russia and the United States, can be traced to World War II. To be a superpower, a nation needs to have a strong economy, an overpowering military, immense international political power and, related to this, a strong national ideology. It was this war, and its results, that caused each …showed first 75 words of 3502 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3502 total…ity of the existence of superpowers arose from the imperial decline of Great Britain and France, and the power vacuum that this decline created in Europe. Germany and Italy tried to fill this h: New York) 1994 p. 417-418. 26.<#27> Tony Smith, "The United States and the Global Struggle for Democracy," in America's Mission: The United States and Democracy in the Twentieth Century (New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995) [http://epn.org/tcf/xxstru 03.html.] 1995