The responsibility of the Cold War could be placed on various people and factors. Walter LaFeber places the responsibility of the Cold War on Hary Truman. LeFeber claims that Truman exaggerated the threat of Russia. After World War II, there was military and political tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Truman Doctrine only intensified the tension. It was a plan to prevent the Soviet Union and their communist beliefs to take over Greece and Turkey, it created a military alliance called NATO, and it declared communism as a threat to American society. John Lewis Gaddis decided to place the responsibility of the Cold War on the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin. Gaddis claims that the Cold War was inevitable, due to difference
