Serving an expanded citizenry, Reconstruction governments established the South’s first state-funded public school systems, sought to strengthen the bargaining power of plantation labourers, made taxation more equitable, and outlawed racial discrimination in public transportation and accommodations. They also offered lavish aid to railroads and other enterprises in the hope of creating a “New South” whose economic expansion would benefit Blacks and whites alike.
The correct answer is a Superpower.
The only two countries that left World War II with any real strength were the United States and the Soviet Union.
This set the stage for a 45-year "Cold War" wherein the two countries built up their nuclear arsenals and fought in proxy wars to determine who would be the sole superpower.
The United States won and the Soviet Union collapsed.
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