As the United States entered the war, on December 8, 1941 against Japan and recei- ved the German and Italian declarations of war on December 11, British prime minister Winston Churchill felt relief after the lonesome struggle against Hitler’s forces in Continental Europe and North Africa. He was certain: „Hitlers Schicksal war besiegelt. Mussolinis Schicksal war besiegelt. Was die Japaner betrifft, sie wür- den zu Pulver zermalmt. Der Rest war lediglich die richtige Anwendung überwälti- gender Stärke.“[266] (transl.: Hitler's fate was decided. Mussolinis fate was decided. As to the Japanese, they would be reduced to rubble. The rest was only the correct application of overwhelming force. -B. Wahler)

   Once these two international champions of ‘lawlessness’ were checked, Roosevelt assumed that a peaceful, stable and democratic post-war order was the necessary consequence .[267] But the United States and its leaders had not yet given sufficient attention to the emergence of another ‘internationalist’ ideology. As a strategy paper of the Armed Forces had concluded, after a victorious end of the war, the United States and the Soviet Union would result as the two only military ‘superpowers’, due to their geographical situation, their immense territorial extension and their superior industrial potential.[268]

   What this paper however did not say was, how the relations between the two poles of the bi-polar world should be or would be.