The period between 1945 and 1989 was dominated by the confrontation between the two superpowers of USSR and USA. USA seeing themselves as the bastion of capitalism, with the USSR hellbent on spreading world-wide revolution and destroying capital, saw deeply seeded superstition, resulting in a period of variating tensions between this time period, termed ‘The Cold War’. Historians such as Fontaine and Schlesinger have argued that the roots of the Cold War stem from the ideological conflict between the two nations. The orthodox view of the Cold War laid the roots of the conflict within the Russian camp, blaming Stalin for initially violating the Yalta Agreement, which led to reactionary policy by America such as the Truman doctrine in an effort to contain communism. Williams (1959) argues that the US foreign policy links to the ‘needs’ of American capitalism, as he viewed the containment as the latest manifestation of traditional American diplomacy of economic expansionism. Alperovitz (1965) argues that America employed an ‘Atomic Diplomacy’ landing the first strike of the Cold War in the dropping of the atomic bomb upon Hiroshima, an attempt to almost ‘scare Russia off’.