The conflict in ideologies between capitalism and communism resulted in one of the greatest conflicts of the twentieth century. The belief that freedom and democracy would die under communist rule caused the United States to start a conflict that would last for decades. The decisions made by the United States in W.W.II caused tensions to rise between the U. S. and the Soviet Union. Fear of Communism in capitalist nations, caused the United …showed first 75 words of 1925 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1925 total…Press Inc., 1992.) p14 3 Dudley 14 4 Dudley 125 5 Dudley 125 6 Cayton 720 7 John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: REthinking the Cold War,(Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997.) p.119 8 Cayton 721 9 Dudley 17 10 Cayton 724 11 Cayton 724 12 Dudley 18 13 Cayton 724 14 Cayton 724 15 Cayton 725 16 Cayton 725 17 Patricia Glynn, Closing Pandora’s Box., (New York : Harper Collins, 1992.) p.135 18 Gaddis 23 19 Edwin M. Yoder Jr., Joe Alsop’s Cold War, (Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 1995.) p.23 20 Glynn 135 21 Cayton 733 22 Yoder 22 23 Alvin A. Snyder, Warriors of Disinformation , (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1995.)p.221 24 Snyder 224