The Cold War - An Ideological War | 1
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The United States and the Soviet Union
In his influential, two thousand five book, global cold war, westad shows how the united states and the et union both sought what he calls global ideological predominance. American and soviet leaders disagreed on the content of their iteologies, but they agreed that only one or the other could ultimately prevail. Why should it matter if a biology professor in baltimore occasionally signed a communist petition? In the united states, some have long espoused that the country is part of a grand plana manifest destiny, ordained by god to spread freedom and liberty across the land. Soviet communists made the same kind of claims to historical inevitability. But being atheists, they appealed to philosophy instead of
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