USA HISTORY

POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959

THE MARSHALL PLAN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In the period following World War II, the United States developed a policy of containment mainly in response to the
A
perceived threat of Soviet expansion
B
building of the Berlin Wall
C
spread of nuclear weapons
D
disagreements in Yalta
Explanation: 

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: -Kennan and Containment, 1947 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 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: -The United States developed its policy of containment to prevent communism from spreading further into Europe and the rest of the world. The concept was first outlined in George Kennan’s “Long Telegram, ” which he sent from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

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