Perspectives of the Cold War

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Perspectives of the Cold War
The cold war was a period of geopolitical and ideological tension between the Soviet Union and the United States, and their respective allied countries, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War II. Historians have not fully specified the dates, but it is believed that the period ran from 1948 to 1991. However, in this paper, we look into students' insights about the Cold war from 1948 to the 1970s.
The American Vision's chapter on the Origins of the Cold War entails both post-revisionist and revisionist ideas, especially on the Soviet Union. On the other side, the chapter titled "The Early Cold War Years" routes for the traditionalist narrative. Considering both works, the two chapters portray the Soviet Union negatively while the US is portrayed positively. In these chapters, The US Marshal Plan is touted to be one of the events that led to the Cold war. It depicted America as a savior of Western Europe, hence giving the US a positive image. According to the revisionist perspective, The Marshall Plan was established to serve the economic interests. The negative portrayal of the Soviet Union includes the unavailability of the Soviets to explain the reasons why they are opposed to The US's offer to make reparations. The US claimed that the Soviet's action to build its economy divided Europe into factions. Hence, the traditionalist perspective blames the conflict that caused the Cold War on Soviet Union (Apple et al., 2007).
The traditionalist representation of the Marshal Plan predicts that in reference to the early days as put out in the book, "Early Cold War Years," the United States, through the Marshal Plan, struggled to fight Communist aggression in Asia and Europe and was put out as a good measure of saving the world economy. However, as treated in the "Origins of the World," it is thought to be one of the causes of the Cold War.
The Origin of the Cold War in the Americans by Holt McDougal
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The book entitled "The Americans" highlights all the events that happened during the Cold War. In this section, we will show how revisionist interpretations were disregarded by applying physical separation. 
The Traditionalist and Post-Revisionist Frameworks
The books "The Americans" and "The American Vision," both chapters in the books talk about the post-revisionist framework of the Cold war. This starts from the beginning of the books, where the story is told about the encounters of Soviet and U.S. soldiers at River Elbe in Germany towards the end of the first World War. The U.S. and Soviet soldiers believed that the meeting would act as a symbol of peace. Unfortunately, their hopes were dashed when after the Second World war, the Soviet Union and the U.S. developed to be rival superpowers, each strong and influential enough to exert influence on the events of the world. 
Next, there is the U.N. attempt to act as a symbol of peace between the Soviet Union and the U.S. In 1945 on April 25, 50 member U.N. countries met in San Francisco to start the peacekeeper international organization. And though the U.N. was supposed to be a peace-keeping organization, it turned out to be a competing ground for the two Superpowers. Both the U.S. and Soviet Union turned the U.N. into a land where they could influence ideologically allied countries.
The ideological differences between the U.S. and the Soviet Union led to the formation of factions allied to either side. For instance, in 1946, Stalin supported the Soviet Union, colluded with Soviet allied countries like Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Romania. These countries were called satellite nations. In the same year, in a speech, Stalin alluded that capitalism and communism were compatible and that another war was brewing.
Under siege of the threats from the Soviet Union, the U.S. decided to stop babysitting the Soviet Union. In February 1946, a Moscow-based American diplomat named George F. Kennan established a containment policy. This would make sure that communist rule would be ended in the Soviet Union allied countries. This policy henceforth guided the foreign policy of the Truman administration. This means that the U.S. could not change the direction of events without suppressing the influence of the Soviet Union; hence Europe became divided into democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe. 
The Exclusion and Inclusion of Revisionist Pers...