History GCSE
Superpower rivalry and the spread of influence
What Superpower rivalry and the spread of influence means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the spread of communist and capitalist influence, which was a cause of rising tension.
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