Who was primarily responsible for the Cold War? Was it the Soviet Union or was it the United States?

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Essay must be at least 2000 words, use evidence from the six documents to defend the thesis, and understand the historical context. The six documents are as follows, The Iron Curtain Speech (1946) by winston churchill, the “Truman Doctrine Speech,” delivered by President Truman to Congress on March 12, 1947, Walter Lippmann, A Critique of Containment (1947),The Marshall Plan (1947), Secretary of Commerce and former Vice President Henry A.Wallace letter to President Harry S. Truman, July 23, 1946, and a telegram sent by Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Novikov to Soviet Leadership in September 1946.