How do centers of world domination before World War I compare to those after World War II?

A. Power shifted from the United States and Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union. B. Power shifted from the Soviet Union to the United States and Eastern Europe. C. Power shifted from Western Europe to the United States and the Soviet Union. D. Power shifted from Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union and China.

your answer is C based off the fact that i have no context and that it makes the most sense.

C. Power shifted from Western Europe to the United States and the Soviet Union.

Explanation:

Before WWI, the centers of world domination were the empires and powers of Western Europe, mainly the British Empire and the Prussian Empire, with the presence of other imperial powers like Russia, the Austria-Hungary Empire, and the Ottoman Empire. All of these empires collapsed at the end of WWI, which caused a big political and ideological crisis in Europe that paved the way for the rise of extremist ideologies like Fascism, Nazism, and Communism. This new setting generated a new clash of imperialism in WWII, in which Nazism and Fascism were defeated and the clear winners of this war were the United States and the Soviet Union. These new global powers that rose from the WWII started a new war between them for world domination: the Cold War, a clash between the Western, democratic, and capitalist world and the Eastern, Soviet, and Communist world.