The Relationship between USA and Russia First, characterize shifts and changes in the two countries’ complex relationship as a result of military, political, economic, social, and cultural developments during the twentieth century.
Second, use the two primary sources to explain how those works expressed and reflected changing American perceptions of the Soviet Union in the period between World War II and the Cold War. From 1922 to 1991, Russia was the largest part of the Soviet Union. Through most the final half of the 20th Century, the United States and the Soviet Union (known also as the USSR) were the principal actors in an epic battle, referred to as a Cold War, for global domination.