USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Many Americans feared that the communists in Russia, known as the Soviet Union following the Bolshevik Revolution, hoped to spread their ideology all over the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -As the Soviets tightened their grip on Eastern Europe, the United States embarked on a policy of containment to prevent the spread of Soviet and communist influence in Western European nations such as France, Italy, and Greece.

Detailed explanation-3: -Americans are worried that the spread of Communism threatens their freedoms, their individuality, and their way of living. Prior to World War II, Joseph Stalin aggressively transformed the communist Soviet Union into a totalitarian state.

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.

Detailed explanation-5: -With the perceived danger of a spreading worldwide communism came fear of a Soviet surprise nuclear missile attack. Fears grew into what many observers believe was a full-blown hysteria in the United States.