Cold War: A Post-Revisioninst View of the Origins :: American America History

stone-cold contend A Post-Revisioninst View of the OriginsThere are three main schools of ruling that trace the origins of the Cold state of war. The Orthodox view is that the intransigence of Leninist ideology, the sinister dynamics of a totalitarian society, and the madness of Stalin (Doc 1) cause the Cold War. The Revisionists claim that American policy offered the Russians no real choice...and the fall in States used or deployed its preponderance of power (Doc 2) and these actions caused the Cold War. The Post-Revisionist position is that the Cold War was initiated both(prenominal) by the United States and the USSR. Through the analysis of documents and other sources, the actual cause of the war lies with both powers. Both powers caused the Cold War because, although the US and the USSR were eitheried during World War Two, the USSR and US had different ideologies and aims of the war that conflicted after the war was over and the flagellum that each power imposed on the o ther. The primary cause of the Cold War is the exceedingly bipolar systems of government that the USSR and the US were administered under. The US had a democracy and had, in April of 1945, just said farewell to one of the approximately liberal presidents that ever had been elected. By making many social reforms, president Roosevelt pulled the US out of the crippling depression and into on of the most soft decades ever. The aims of the US are evident in the Atlantic Charter, which was signed by Churchill and Roosevelt in August of 1914. According to the Charter, the US would seek no aggrandizement.... respect the rights of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live.... bring to the highest degree the fullest collaboration between all nations.... and seek the abandonment of the use of force (Doc 4). piece of music still early in the war, the Atlantic Charter was later adopted by the United Nations and remains, to this day, one of the cornerstones of t he western world. However, the other power that emerged still intact after the war, the USSR had a very different way of government and dissimilar aims of the war. The USSR was a communist nation and had Stalin its dictator. From the Soviet perspective, extending the borders of the USSR and dominating the formerly independent states of eastern europium would provide security and would be proper compensation for the fearful losings the Soviet people had endured in the war (p.