Was is the USA or Russia that started the cold war? Or was it both??

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Answer 1

Russia started it by putting a wall around Berlin

Answer 2

Both. There was a mutual distrust between the because they hold opposit views. The USA had an open, capitalist system that feared excessive government control. The USSR had a completely government controlled system that view the west as decadent and corrupt.

Stalin being in charge didn't help any, he was very aggressive and the west was convinced he would invade at the drop of a hat if he thought he'd win. As a result they armed themselves and formed treaties for mutual protection. This fed Stalin's paranoia and he started a massive armament program. So after a while you had two sides that did not trust each other and were armed to the teeth.

Answer 3

Traditionalist view - USSR is to blame
Revisionist view - US is to blame
Post revisionist view - Both are to blame

I am a revisionist in that the US were the first to initiate hostilities towards the USSR (1920s and so on). Only accelerating with the US adoption of soviet "containment". And keep in mind NATO was formed first, with the Warsaw Pact forming as a response. Thus the Cold War began.

Answer 4

It is generally accepted that Russia's severing of all land transport links to Berlin just after the end of the Second World War marked the start of the Cold War.

The Berlin Wall was not constructed until ten years later.

Answer 5

It was a mutual deal; in the good old usa it was big business as usual and let the good times roll while the ceo's made the big bucks and the little people got screwed; in the ussr the boogeyman kept the little people down on the farm while the fat cats lived high on the hog. Bidness as usual.

Answer 6

It was started by intransigence on both sides. The Russians wanted a little more, as they thought that they deserved it, and the allies disagreed. The Marshal plan was put in place to feed the hungry Germans and to bring the economy to a point where the Germans could eventually feed and fend for themselves.
The Russians, on the other-hand, wanted revenge, and understandably so; and this led to the disagreements and the cold war, that ended in 1990 with the near bankruptcy of the USSR.

Answer 7

The cold war was inescapable. Stalin who was a mass murderer was unlike Hitler enough wise to understand that USA would win the war if it becomes hot. So, in 1945, there was a tacit agreement to freeze the situation for the misfortune of eastern European peoples

Answer 8

Both

Answer 9

both but in the us it was used to scare the public where as the ussr just kept its public in the dark about it