Both of them were severely hurt by nuclear radiation
Hiroshima is one of the japanese cities that was bombed by the USA with atomic bomb during ww2.
<span>Chernobyl also experience a nuclear disaster in 1986,in the USSR.
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b. it demonstrated to the Soviet union that the United states had the ability to counter its armies in Europe
<span>Europeans saw Africa as a rich source of raw materials to use in industry and as a market for European products of industry. Also, it was felt that having a colonial empire at this time was part of being a European power, in order to be able to compete. Furthermore, some Europeans felt that they were superior to Africans and were therefore justified in conquering what they thought were the backward peoples of Africa.</span>