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containment, strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States beginning in the late 1940s in order to check the expansionist policy of the Soviet Union.
29 Οκτ 2018 · Containment remained central to American foreign policy throughout the Cold War, officially ending with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Containment was a foreign policy of the United States of America, introduced at the start of the Cold War, aimed at stopping the spread of Communism.
American leaders responded to the Soviet control of Eastern Europe by developing a policy of containment –the United States would prevent communism from spreading to additional countries, even though it would not challenge communism where it already existed.
2 Οκτ 2024 · Containment during the Cold War was a U.S. policy aimed at preventing communism's spread by limiting Soviet influence in Europe, Asia, and beyond.
3 Μαρ 2016 · From this point forward until the Reagan presidency, every successive U.S. political administration would adopt some variant of geopolitical “containment” against world communism, first in Europe, then everywhere.
Containment was the strategy by which the United States waged the Cold War. It had a variety of meanings at its inception, and evolved over the forty-five years of its existence. The key goals of containment were to limit the spread of Soviet power and Communist ideology.
A manifestation of containment was the so-called Truman Doctrine announced by President Truman about a year after Kennan sent his response to Washington (Document C). Like containment, the Truman Doctrine became a fundamental part of America’s response to the confrontation with the Soviet Union.
