POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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stop the spread of Fascism.
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stop the spread of slavery.
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stop other countries from building up their military power.
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stop the spread of Communism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1947, President Harry S. 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: -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-4: -The United States feared specifically a domino effect, that the communism of the USSR would spread from one country to the next, destabilizing one nation which would, in turn, destabilize the next and allow for communist regimes to dominate the region.