THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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overthrow communism wherever it existed
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stop the spread of communism
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end the United State’s involvement outside the Western Hemisphere
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None of the above
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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. An early test of containment came in Greece and Turkey.
Detailed explanation-3: -In March 1947, President Truman made a speech to the US Congress in which he promised that the USA would provide aid to any country taking a stand against communism. This was developed into The Truman Doctrine. The USA was now fully committed to a policy of containment, or stopping the spread of communism. .
Detailed explanation-4: -When communist rebels threatened the governments of Greece and Turkey in 1947, President Truman gave those countries military aid. With this help, the Greek and Turkish governments were able to defeat the communist rebels. The Truman Doctrine cont.
Detailed explanation-5: -This containment policy was effective in preventing the spread of communism. The Cold War was called so as it technically never heated up into a direct USSR-US war, however the US’s containment policy put these two powers at odds through a series of outside conflicts in a number of theaters internationally.