Cold Wars

It was the contribution of the United States in Vietnam that had disenchanted a lot of historians thinking it to be on grounds of "containment" and in the process also led take a conventional approach in their perceptive of the cold war.

The assumption relating to the foundation of the cold war has been challenged by the revisionist historians as they do not agree to the postulation that the cold war has its origin in the instant postwar phase. Walter LaFeber in the study which later became a landmark –Soviets, Americans and the cold war that was published in 1967 had laid down that the conflicts between United States  and Soviet in the ninetieth century due to markets, power and the East Asia's opening to United States had sowed the seeds of cold war.

Moreover once World War 2 concluded the Soviets were so feeble and overwhelmed that they were not in a position to challenge the United States with any notable warning and besides that a monopoly was sustained in nuclear matters by the United States until august 1949 an atomic bomb was tested by the USSR for the first time.
 Gar Alperovitz in his atomic international relations have said that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using nuclear weapons by the United States  had in a way started the cold war. This bombing were made in the closing stages of the Second World War and was responsible in a major way for the cold war.

Extracts from the Limits of Power by Kolko and Joyce: in view of Kolko the policy adopted by the United States was not only counterrevolutionary but it was also anticommunist. According to them it was not only the influence of the soviets that the Americans were against rather any potential challenge on its political as well as economic prerogatives and which they fought through means such as military or covert.