Cold War Foreign Policy

US Foreign Policy during Cold War Introduction “Their [Russia’s and America‘s] starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe,” Alexis de Torqueville, late 19th century. De Torqueville’s prophecy came true by the 1940s when the two super powers, the United States of America and the Soviet Union, had come head to …

…refers to the political and strategic struggle that came to be after World War II between the United States and Western European Allies. (Academic American Encyclopedia, page 98) It is also a monumental frontier that marks the eventual international policies and reactionary documents. For 35 years, foreign policy was guided by containment and NSC 68. For the rest of the post-Cold War era, the policies in the wake of the Cold War will be looked at as precedents.