The Cold War was the elongated tension between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. It was a clash of these supergiants in political, ideological, military, and economic values and ideas. The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. The conflict in ideologies between capitalism and communism resulted in one of the greatest conflicts of …showed first 75 words of 1405 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1405 total…caused the Cold War to start and to continue for decades. Moreover, the government's use of propaganda at home rallied the American public in an anticommunist attitude, which supported the countries political decisions. Yet Stalin's expansion policy was also another catalyst to the war. What Stalin's actions unarguably did was start a string of chain-reactions within the western powers. Thus, both the United States and the Soviet Union caused the conflict between Democracy and Communism.