The Struggle Of The United States During The Cold War

setting up in that part of the world was something the United States could live with.” The US was rather more concerned for a mutual benefit and wanted a working relation with the USSR. The U.S. were most interested in the west Europe, they wanted to introduce there ideology, demarcation, by trying not to collaborate, “,” Roosevelt-style—that is, by trying to work hand-in-hand with each other on whatever problems turned up. Instead, they could get along by pulling apart. Robert describes “ideologies of race, gender, and maturity as mutually reinforcing “notions of modernity” that shaped U.S. and Soviet attitudes and policies, and portrays the Cold War as a struggle between “competing explication claims” emanating from Moscow as well as Washington.” However the main goal was state of survival, after the end of World War II the chance of facing another war was a major treat to the super power and thus wanted to avoid it.
This period did not begin instantaneous, the conflict had deep-rooted ideological grounds that begun as an in-depth revolt against Western values. Charles, argues “the ideological and political conflict for the future structure of a united world, carried on for an indefinite period since 1917 by several militant universalism, each of which possess at list one major state.”