Was the Cold War Inevitable? Why or Why Not? If

question 76

Essay

Was the Cold War inevitable? Why or why not? If so, at what point in the early post-World War II years did the Cold War become inevitable? What steps, if any, the United States and/or the Soviet Union could have taken to avoid the outbreak of the Cold War?

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K.Warner Schaie

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