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The nations emerged as two big power of the world after the Second World War were ______________.

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Russia and China
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England and U.S.A.
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U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.
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China and England
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Solution

The correct option is C U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.

The aftermath of World War II was the beginning of an era defined by the decline of the old great powers and the rise of two superpower which were the Soviet Union(USSR) and the United States of America (USA), creating a bipolar world. Allied during World War II, the USA and the USSR became competitors on the world stage and engaged in what became known as the Cold War, so called because it never boiled over into open war between the two powers but was focused on espionage, political subversion and proxy wars.


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