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Exemplar resource record for the sources used in the essay - What is your view about the reasons for the development of the cold war in the years 1945-53?
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Schlesinger argues that Soviet Union contributed to the tensions by adhering to an
*Arthur M. Schlesinger 25,26,27,32,3
''uncompromising Leninist ideology''. Bring up the revisionist argument that the Soviet
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Origins of the Cold war Union was motivated by a desire for security and a fear of encirclement by hostile Western
powers, while the United States was motivated by a desire to promote democracy and
capitalism and to resist Soviet expansionism.However soviets
John Lewis Gaddis argues that the cause of the development of the Cold War was primarily
John Lewis Gaddis 11,14
a result of ideological differences and the clash between the Soviet Union's communist
The cold war ideology and the United States' capitalist ideology.
He argue that the clash of ideologies led to a "security dilemma," where both sides felt
threatened by the other's actions and intentions.
Yergin argues that ideological factors also contributed to the development of the Cold War.
Daniel Yergin 40,44
He notes that both the United States and the Soviet Union were committed to their own
American ideology:The Riga and Yalta ideological systems, which were fundamentally opposed to each other. The United States
Axioms
saw communism as a threat to democracy and capitalism, while the Soviet Union saw
capitalism as a threat to socialism and the workers' revolution.
Rostow was associated with the "orthodox" school of Cold War historiography, which
W.W.Rostow 3
emphasized the aggressive nature of Soviet communism and the need for U.S. containment.
The united states in the World Arena Rostow believed that the Soviet Union's communist ideology was inherently expansionist
and that its leaders sought to spread revolution and communism around the world. He
argued that the United States had a unique role to play as the leader of the free world and
that it had a moral obligation to oppose communism and defend freedom wherever it was
threatened.
The Kolko's argue that the United States' pursuit of economic interests, such as access to
*Joyce and Gabriel Kolko ‘’the limits of 14,15,16,18,1
power : The world and united states resources and markets, led to tensions with the Soviet Union. They argue that the United
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Foreign Policy 1945-1954 States was primarily concerned with maintaining its global economic dominance and saw
the Soviet Union as a potential threat to this dominance. Suggesting that the United States'
policy of containment, which aimed to prevent the spread of communism, was a response
to the perceived threat of Soviet expansion rather than a purely ideological stance
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