POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
THE DESCENT OF THE IRON CURTAIN
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to stop the spread of democracy
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to promote the United Nations
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to take power from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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to contain 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 goal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War was to keep control of Eastern Europe, and to spread communism. The goal of the United States, along with Britain, was to stop the spread of communism into Western Europe and worldwide.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.