In discussions of the causes of the Cold War, a controversial issue has been the question: Who caused the Cold War? On the one hand, mainstream historians argue that the leaders of the Soviet Union are to blame. On the other hand, revisionists argue that Western leaders are to blame. Others even argue that both Western and Soviet leaders are equally responsible for the development of the Cold War. My opinion is that Western leaders were responsible for protecting the democratic values ​​we enjoy today, while the Soviet leadership's ideology and aggressive, expansionist intrusions were primarily responsible for the development of the Cold War. World War II had ended in 1945 leaving the Soviet Union in control of large areas of Eastern Europe and the Western Allies in control of the West. As the Allies restored democracy in the West, the Soviets began to turn the countries occupied by the Red Army into Soviet satellites that controlled my Moscow. Unfortunately, the consolidation and threat of the communist regime and Stalin's threatening expansion into Eastern Europe brought distrust and suspicion. Tensions were heightened by ideological differences between the two sides of the "Iron Curtain". On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill gave a speech at Westminister College in Fulton Missouri, known as the "Iron Curtain". In his speech, he uncovered what he believed were the true intentions of the Soviet leadership. Hoping for a peaceful reconciliation with the Russians, Churchill said: "We welcome Russia to her rightful place among the leading nations of the world." However, based on events in Eastern Europe, he believed that Soviet intentions were not just exclusively security-related. but rather expansion… half of the document… War, 1941-1947 (2000), (ch. 10: To the Truman Doctrine: Implementing the New Policy), 316-352. [electronic resource]Charles S. Maier, “Hegemony and Autonomy within the Western Alliance,” in Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter (eds.) The Origins of the Cold War. An International History (2002), 154-174. [electronic resource]John Kent, "British Politics and the Origins of the Cold War" in Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter (eds.) The Origins of the Cold War. An International History (2002), 139-153. [electronic resource]John Lewis Gaddis, Now We Know. Rethinking Cold War History (1997) (Exp. Ch. 7: Alliance Ideology, Economics, and Solidarity), 189-220. [in reserve in the Rutherford Library]Anne Deighton, 'The 'Frozen Front': the Labor government, the division of Germany and the origins of the Cold War, 1945-7', International Affairs, 63 (1987), 449-465.