The idea that the Cold War was 'cold' has come into question in more recent historical thought since the war ended and also with post-modernist historians.
Orthodox historians would place the blame for the development of the Cold War on the Soviet Union, whilst Revisionist historians would rather blame America and Post-Revisionist historians provide a synthesis between the two. This interpretation and the label itself are part of three out of four of the main schools of thought when studying the Cold War.
The war that took place between 1945 and 1991 has been termed the 'Cold War', largely due to the fact that the two main agitators (The Soviet Union and The United States of America) never came into direct contact in terms of conventional warfare such as in WWI or WWII - thus it was not 'hot' conflict.
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