The conflict between the two superpowers lasted for more than forty years, influencing all countries who were connected to either of the superpowers. “Despite the alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union during WWII, a ‘cold war’ of words and ideas rapidly emerged in the immediate wake of that global conflict” (Sheets, 2016, p. 631). It was political and economic differences between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. that were what kept their ideologies contrary to one another. The United States did not believe in turning into a Communist country and viewed the Soviet Union as having a hateful philosophy that was determined to expand over the entire world. The Soviet Union’s ideology was that all citizens should be able to live equally and
