The United States and the Cold War

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The paper argues that the United States, rather than the Soviet Union, was to blame for causing the Cold War. Several reasons cited for this opinion include America's capitalist and expansionist goals, the determination of the U.S to maintain its preponderant position in the world, as well as the widespread misconception of the Soviet Union's desire and ability to wage war.

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"The 14th Century Spanish writer Don Juan Manuel first used the term 'Cold War' to analyze the conflict between Christendom and Islam. However, it was the journalist Walter Lippmann who popularized this term in 1947 in his critique of U.S. policy towards the USSR. A cold war is one which brings neither honor nor peace to those who wage it, as opposed to a hot war, which ends in either death or peace. Contrary to physical war and fighting, a cold war is more commonly considered a period of tension and breath holding . During the Soviet-American Cold War, a period of covert antagonism between Moscow and Washington dominating world affairs from 1945 until the 1990's, the two superpowers engaged in an armaments race, armed and aided their allies and client states, intervened in civil wars by supporting different factions, built rival alliance systems, and developed exclusionist economic programs."

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