1. The Truman Doctrine and the Cold War
... had legitimate security reasons for the actions they took, which were only misperceived by the US as plain Soviet aggression, which undoubtedly caused the US to take on a more defensive stance towards the USSR, effectively leading to the start of Cold War. In the case of Poland, the Russians had been invaded by the Germans through Poland and hence the USSR ... of the Cold War. If not for the aggressive actions that the Soviet Union took in Iran and other countries, the US might not have adopted such a defensive or aggressive stance towards the USSR or doubted the actions of USSR. Hence,...
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