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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the primary goal of the Truman Doctrine?
A
to limit the spread of international communism
B
to rebuild Europe after the devastation of WW2
C
to prevent a Soviet blockade of Berlin, Germany
D
to limit America’s involvement in foreign conflicts
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Option 1, i.e Containment of Communism. The main objective of the Truman Doctrine was the containment of Communism which was proposed by the then US President Harry S. Truman in the era of Cold war.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that pledges American “support for democracies against authoritarian threats.” The doctrine originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-5: -The goals of containment were to keep communism from spreading to other countries. The truman doctrine was the policy of the US to support free peoples who are resisting soviet pressures to become communist. The Eisenhower doctrine spread those goal by taking the truman doctrine to include the middle east.

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