background of cold war

Question 1

elaborate: decline of traditional European powers

Answer 1

war damages and casualties
war debts and reparation
decline in production and foreign trade

Question 2

elaborate: rise of new super powers
(US)

Answer 2

• economic aspect
  US dollar became world currency
  joined WWI and WWII in later stage and was not a major battle field
• military aspect
  the first to develop an atomic bomb

Question 3

elaborate: rise of new super powers
(USSR)

Answer 3

focused on its heavy industry
developed its military industry due to international isolation and the threat of Nazi Germany
became the third largest industrial country