The Cold War was a war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States wanted to stop the spread of communism while the Soviets wanted to continue to spread it. It was a period of great unrest and distrust between the nations and the citizens lived in fear of war constantly. Although the U.S.S.R. played a large role in the tensions between them and the United States, the U.S. became more responsible for escalating the tensions of the cold war. We see this through the U.S. use of the Truman Doctrine, the creation of NATO, and the involvement in the Vietnam war which happened because of the exaggerated fear of the domino effect.
For example, it is very apparent that the U.S. was more responsible for escalating the tensions
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The Vietnam War was a war fought to stop the North Vietnamese from taking over all of Vietnam and turning it into a communist country. At first the U.S. was only supporting the south financially, then the support was in a form of providing training and supplies, and in the end it was almost completely the U.S. fighting the war to prevent the communist takeover in vietnam with their own troops and money. A major factor for making the United States join the war was that most politicians, including the president, believed wholeheartedly that if Vietnam fell to communism, it would be the start to a large domino effect that would cause many more countries to turn communist. When the United States joined the Vietnam War, it escalated the tensions of the cold war because they were now allocating tons of resources and American soldiers to fighting a war that would stop the people the Soviet Union was supporting. This also shows that the United States was more responsible for escalating the Cold War tensions because they had started a war just to stop a governmental system (communism) that was different from their