“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 head, swaying the “destinies of half the …showed first 75 words of 2106 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2106 total…to the foreign policies enacted upon during the Cold War era. Spanier, John and Steven Hook. American Foreign Policy: Since World War II (Washington, D.C., Congressional Quarterly Inc, 1995) Spanier’s book provided a superfluous amount of information on foreign policy and how it was applied. Thinkquest team, Cold War: The Cause [document on-line]; available from http://library.thinkquest.org; Internet; accessed 10 February 2001 This document provided the factors that led up to the Cold War.