Blaming the Soviet Union | Blaming the West |
| | The West had interfered in the Russian Civil War |
| | Appeasing Hitler |
Signing the Nazi-Soviet Pact | |
The Katyn massacre of Polish officers | |
The Red Army stood back whilst the Germans crushed the Warsaw Uprising | America and Britain had delayed opening a second front |
Stalin was untrustworthy | Churchill was an imperialist |
| | Truman was belligerent |
The Soviet Union went back on what had been agreed at Yalta and to a lesser extent, at Potsdam in the way in sought to control Eastern Europe | The Truman Doctrine was virtually a declaration of the Cold War and the Americans tried to bribe European powers with dollar diplomacy |
The West had gone back on the agreements regarding the occupation of Germany | Stalin blockaded Berlin in attempt to force the West into leaving the city |
