Why did the united states and the soviet union became political rivals after world war 2?

They became rivals because each one wanted more power than the other for example in world war 2 the USA made the atomic bomb which showed the world that the Americans were the most powerful country but after ww2 Russia and USA started a Cold War which lead to the feud between there political views and the start of better technology and the space race

In my honest opinion , i’d say franklin d roosevelt was a president that impacted our nation , i say this because fdr is voted among top three best us presidents and he was the longest serving president by 3 terms , usually presidents only supposed to have two terms increments of 4 years , equivalent to 8 years total before election time. and he established the fdic , through the 1933 banking act and he established the us , social security system , during his presidency, and established a national minimum wage , through the fair labor standards act , fdr led the allied coalition to victory in wwii and he played a major role in the creation of the united nations.