POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
KOREAS PARTITION
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The belief that if one country becomes communist, others will follow
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The policy to intervene to stop the spread of communism
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The policy to infiltrate and convert communist countries
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The belief that the U.S. should not get involved in foreign conflicts
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Detailed explanation-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.
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: -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-5: -Containment was a foreign policy strategy followed by the United States during the Cold War. First laid out by George F. Kennan in 1947, the policy stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries.