Cold War There are many reasons why the cold war would start and different politicians and historians have different views on it. For example, Hans J. Morgenthau, Thomas G. Paterson, and Gabriel and Kolko, all had different views on how the cold war all started. Morgenthau said that the USSR and the United States disagreements started the cold war. He said that the Soviets did not want to be allies with the Unites States anymore, …showed first 75 words of 375 total…

…showed last 75 words of 375 total…suspicions that the democratic west had about the USSR and vice versa. In addition to the relations between the major powers got worse at the end of the Second World War. Furthermore there were some economic origins as Gabriel and Joyce Kolko stated. There was also an arms race; the USSR was annoyed not to know about America’s atom bomb. The USSR gained the atom bomb in 1949 and both sides began to stockpile arms.