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This 5 page paper examines various sources dealing with the Cold War and argues that scholarship is divided enough that it’s possible to argue the Cold War was not inevitable. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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in Europe was inevitable, and argues that most source believe it was. Discussion The Cold War (as opposed to a "hot" or shooting war) found the U.S. and its allies
aligned against the Soviet Union and its satellites. The idea was that each side had enough weapons to annihilate the other, so an attack by either would result in a
nuclear inferno that no one would survive. The two sides thus kept the peace because they had made war unthinkable. The world lived in a state of tension, with occasional
flare-ups, until the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. Scholars are now beginning to consider just what those 40+ years of posturing were all about, and whether they
could have been avoided. Crockatt writes that its difficult to arrive at a complete and viable explanation for the events that led to the Cold War, and suggests that some
of the forces at work were beyond the control of those involved (1995). He also notes that what he calls the first generation of historians, writing during the "high Cold
War" (the 1940s and 1950s perhaps), tended to "blame" the Cold War on the Soviets and saw the American response to Soviet aggression as necessary and correct (Crockatt, 1995). However,
the "second wave" of historians, writing perhaps 20 years later, and informed by the experience of the Vietnam War, reversed this position: "Soviet polices were essentially defensive and limited in
scope, while those of the United States were expansionist and uncompromising" (Crockatt, 1995, p. 64). However, both of these schools of thought tend to converge into the idea that "the
Cold War resulted from essentially unilateral actions by one or another power and that therefore the Cold War was an avoidable tragedy" (Crockatt, 1995, p. 65). Crockatt also argues that
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