Who Started the Cold War: The U.S. or the Soviet Union?

Round One:
Document Who started the Cold War? Supporting evidence from document

Iron Curtain Speech

(March 1946)

Clifford Memorandum to
President Truman
(September 1946)

Hypothesis A: Who was responsible for starting the Cold War: the United States or the Soviet
Union?

Round Two:
Document Who started the Cold War? Supporting evidence from document

Wallace Letter to
President Truman (March
1946)

Soviet Ambassador
Novikov Report
(September 1946)

Hypothesis B: Who was responsible for starting the Cold War: the United States or the Soviet
Union?

Round Three:
Document Who started the Cold War? Supporting evidence from document

The Global Cold War

(2005)

Final Hypothesis: Who was responsible for starting the Cold War: the United States or the
Soviet Union?