The US was thwarted in their attempts to bring freedom and prosperity to Europe and the rest of the world by Soviet Communism and its oppression of neighboring states. This meant the US had no choice but to defend freedom and democracy in Europe. Essentially it was the Soviet unions fault for suppressing free democracy and free markets.
There are three views that historians have on the cold war:
Traditionalist (Or orthodox)
Revisionist
Post revisionist.
Traditionalists view the cold war as being the USSR and mainly, Stalin's fault.
For the traditionalist historians, they feel that it was the USSR to blame because the USSR and Stalin were:
Wanting to spread their ideology of communism
They were expansionist.
The ideology was basically put into place from the west. I,e make the USSR look like the bad guy. And it was only actually till the 1960's where the revisionists questioned whether it was really the USSR's fault.
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Generally speaking, Australian views ran in concert with the views of the US.
It was involve by contributing to the cold war
The Cold War was not "cold" per say, but was simply the name of a war that took place.
World War Two was an origin of the Cold War.
Many people changed their views on war once they were confronted by the brutality and reality of death and destruction on the battlefield.
Part of the cold war.
One term could be : a traditionalist
An African traditionalist is an adherent of an African traditional religion.
Reagan wanted to eliminate communism, not merely contain it.
A traditionalist and fundamentalist are not the same and have some differences. A traditionalist will stick to the conventional beliefs to the later but a fundamentalist is liberal and open to various changes in any set up.
a traditionalist
There was no "front" in the Cold War.
polands are not in the cold war
The Texas traditionalist individualist culture places an emphasis on Spain. This started in the year 1690.
Many people were traditionalists in the Roaring Twenties
Generally speaking, Australian views ran in concert with the views of the US.
people were scare because both the USSR & the USA created nuclear weapons. the world feared that the mass production of the nukes would result in a nuclear war between the USA & USSR