What major shift in the global balance of power occurred as a result of World
 War II?
 A. Individual countries gave up their sovereignty to form powerful
 international organizations.
 B. The Axis powers used wartime technologies to develop the
 world's strongest economies.
 C. The democratic United States and communist Soviet Union
 emerged as global superpowers.
 D. The center of global power shifted away from western Europe and toward East Asia