This is because the Cold War was a constant battle to become the leading military and economic power between the United States and the Soviet Union. This manifested itself through many different events during the Cold War, such as the 1947 Berlin Blockade, containment policies, and the stockpiling of nuclear weapons (The Origins of the Cold War). All of these major events were fundamental aspects that motivated the Cold War and kept the Cold War going. Hegemonic stability theory is the theory that a central state must establish rules of the game that everyone follows to support the system and ensure international order (Datta 2016). This means that a country must have both hard power and soft power, that is to say economic and military power, as well as cultural power, to establish international order (Datta 2016). After World War II, the rest of the world was destroyed, including Britain, which was once the hegemonic power due to its control over the sea (Datta 2016). Now the United States had military and economic superiority, with the exception of the Soviet Union. This conflict for hegemonic dominance and power led to the Cold