USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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Which phrase describes the goal of U.S. foreign policy after World War II?

(A) ending colonial empires

(B) ** containing the spread of Communism

(C) revitalizing the Soviet economy

(D) reducing aid to the British

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. The name was loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire, which was containment of the Soviet Union in the interwar period.

Concept note-2: -The “containment policy” was the U.S. approach to containing, or preventing, the spread of Communism after World War II. The idea was to make other countries prosperous enough to avoid the temptation of communism.

Concept note-3: -Security, prosperity, and the creation of a better world are the three most prominent goals of American foreign policy.

Concept note-4: -The United States adopted a policy of containment containment containment. It called for the United States to resist Soviet attempts to form new Communist governments. President Harry Truman applied this policy when he gave aid to Greece and Turkey to keep them from becoming Soviet satellite nations.

Concept note-5: -The Truman Doctrine, also known as the policy of containment, was President Harry Truman’s foreign policy that the US would provide political, military, and economic aid to democratic countries under the threat of communist influences in order to prevent the expansion of communism.