POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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prevent the spread of communism outside of Eastern Europe.
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eliminate all communist governments throughout the world.
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ensure that democracy was contained to the Soviet Union only.
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keep the countries of Eastern Europe from becoming fascist.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Truman pledged that the United States would help any nation resist communism in order to prevent its spread. His policy of containment is known as the Truman Doctrine.
Detailed explanation-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. An early test of containment came in Greece and Turkey.
Detailed explanation-3: -Kennan and Containment, 1947 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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The U.S. adopted the Policy of Containment because communism seemed to be on the rise around the world in the late 1940s. The U.S. wanted to stop communism’s expansion without fighting an all out war with the Soviet Union and China.
Detailed explanation-5: -How was the United States’ policy of containment related to the Marshall Plan? d. The United States believed that the economic aid provided by the Marshall Plan would help contain the spread of Communism.