Which historical view of the causes of the Cold War seems to you most valid and why?

Introduction: The Cold War was the conflict between the United States and its NATO allies, described as the West, and the former Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, and described as the East. Both blocs, heaverly inflenced by their respective capitalist and communist ideologies, believed that the other was doomed to extinction. But instead of simply waiting for the other to collaspe, the superpowers engaged in a war of influence that rapidly spread over the whole world. What was the purpose of the conflict? Who fired the first shot? Many ideas and theories have emerged on the causes of the Cold War. The three major interpretations of the causes of the Cold War are the orthodox, the revisionist, and the post-revisionist views. To answer this essay question, one must analyse these different historical views of the Cold War. These three schools of thought will be used as an axis for this essay, by first looking at the orthodox view, its origins, beliefs, and flaws, then at the same ...