Let's take a closer look at NSC-68. Read the part of the document that is titled "Background of the Present Crisis." Beginning with the third sentence in the second paragraph--the one that starts, "Second, the Soviet Union, unlike previous aspirants to hegemony, is animated by."
rewrite the last three sentences in that paragraph in your own words.
Read the original text of NSC-68. Use other Internet resources to clarify any terms or ideas that you find puzzling.