THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
MCCARTHYISM AND THE RED SCARE
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the effort to keep communism from spreading
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the effort to destroy communism at the heart of the Soviet Union
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the effort to keep Nazi Germany from obtaining nuclear weapons
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the effort to keep the USSR from obtaining nuclear weapons
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The U.S. policy of containment was successful in keeping Americans aware of world events and wary of growing Soviet power as well as giving the U.S. a sense of victory because of no actual war.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.