"Cold War: two ways of looking at the world", this would mean the United States and the Soviet Union both have different intentions. This is what I attend to prove in this paper, that the U.S. and the Soviet Union in fact saw the world through different eyes during the Cold War and that they adapted their foreign policies accordingly.
             Brief history leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis
             To look at the U.S. view during the Cuban Missile Crisis we need to look at the events that happened before 1962, which are responsible for creating the American foreign policy in years to come.
             The seeds of hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union started near the end of World War I. The Bolsheviks, which would later be the Communists, overthrew the existing Russian government. In December 1922 they began the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), under Communist control. The United States refused to recognize the Soviet state until 1933. In July 1945, the United States were the first state that succeeded in the creation of the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb had two objectives: a quick ending of World War II and possession by the U.S. and not the USSR, would allow control of foreign policy.
             Two years later, in 1947, President Harry S. Truman authorized U.S. aid , in the form of the Truman Doctrine, to anti-Communist forces in Greece and Turkey. The policy was expanded to justify support for any nation that the United States government considered to be threatened by Soviet expansion. This policy known as the containment doctrine, was aimed at restricting and holding back the spread of Communism world wide. Containment quickly became the official U.S. policy towards the USSR.
             But the Soviets had not sat still over the years and in August 19
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