How far do Sources A to F support the assertion that the Cold War began due to Stalin's intransigence? Note: Please refer to images that I...

These sources offer conflicting ideas about whether Stalin's intransigence was to blame in starting the Cold War. Source E, written by American diplomat Henry Kissinger in 1994, offers the strongest case that Soviet intransigence was to blame. Kissinger refers to the "Long Telegram" sent by American diplomat George Kennan, who was stationed in Moscow at the start of the Cold War. Kennan believed that the Soviets' refusal to cooperate with the U.S. after the war arose from their Communist ideology, not from anything the U.S. had failed to do with regard to diplomacy. Source B, a cartoon from an American newspaper in 1947, suggests that the Soviets played a role in starting the Cold War, along with the United States, as the picture shows Stalin, the Soviet leader, carving up the world, along with Uncle Sam. 

Sources A and C suggest that United States, not the Soviets, was responsible for starting the Cold War. Source A, written by a Soviet ambassador, states that the U.S. was bent on world domination after World War II, enforced through the arms race and the stockpiling of weapons. Source C, written by an American academic in 1959, states that the U.S. was pursuing an "open-door policy," enforced through use of the atomic bomb, that left the Soviets no choice but to either give in to American domination or to fight it. Source E, written by a Soviet ambassador, suggests that internal conflicts within the Democratic Party in the U.S. led America to take a more hostile approach to the Soviet Union.  Source F, written in 1986 by an historian, offers a slightly different view. This source suggests that Britain and the powers in Western Europe compelled the U.S. to intervene in Europe after the war.