The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although the question is incomplete and does not attach any reference, we can say that type of influence that I believe countries wanted to have on the world stage after Worl War II was their political presence through their ideologies and economic interests. That was the case of the Soviet Union that controlled satellite countries such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Albania, and Rumania. The Soviets tried to spread Communism into other countries such as North Korea, Cuba, and North Vietnam, while the United States tried to stop it through the foreign policy of containment. Those were the difficult years of the Cold War in which the two superpowers tried to win on the arms race and the space race.