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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. First suggested by the U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan, the policy was implemented in the Truman Doctrine (1947) and the Eisenhower Doctrine (1957).
29 Οκτ 2018 · 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.
3 Μαρ 2016 · Not only did the rise of a new threat from the Soviet Union, a wartime ally, shock American belief systems, but the threat itself reversed centuries of faith in the oceans to protect them. The result was a strategic and geopolitical challenge unprecedented in U.S. history.
By retracing shifts in the meaning, usage, and perception of the doctrine of ‘Soviet containment’, this article provides a balanced account of the extent to which US Cold War interventions were in fact driven by such a Grand Strategy....
27 Φεβ 2013 · An Interview with John Lewis Gaddis, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian on the Cold War and policy of containment.
Describe the containment policy. What was its goal? Why did the United States decide to broaden its overseas commitments? Did the Soviet threat justify this expansion of America’s commitments? Was the containment policy essentially offensive or defensive?
George F. Kennan, a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of “containment,” the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war (1947-1989) with the Soviet Union.
