Who was responsible for the Cold War?

[McDreamy]

It's my homework this week and I haven't done it - class starts in an hour!!!!

aargh, complicated question! Fuzzy brain - United States and USSR in race to be most powerful super-state... US anti-Communist stance... arms race... space race... mistrust and fear between Communist east and "democratic" west...

Cuban Missile crisis 1964 as height of it?

Wasn't it probably 6 of one, half a dozen of the other?

Yes but I need to write down the 6 of one and half a dozen of the other! Thanks for your help though

Homework for a week????? It took me four years and 20,000 words to answer this one!!

In one sense it started in the 1920s, since as soon as the Bolsheviks had a firm grasp on power Western nations got quite hostile, but didn't have the power to invade and put in their own guys.
One reason that many Americans were quite up for supporting Hitler, to an extent they saw his attack on Russia as what we would now call a proxy war