The Cold War should be called a war because the literal definition of war is “a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state”, and the cold war was tension between the democracies from the world of the western and the communist countries of Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe was being led by the Soviet Union against the west that was lead by the United States. Even though they technically didn’t declare war on each other, it was still a war. Many people had different opinions about the Cold War, an example of opinions was who started the Cold war? A group of people named the Revisionists, which consisted of William Appleman Williams and his followers, had blamed the United States of starting