THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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The U.S. would try to prevent the spread of communism anywhere in the world
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The U.S. would try to restrict the spread of fascism in Europe
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The U.S. would try to reduce government spending by decreasing the size of its military.
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The U.S. would try to ally with the Soviets while sacrificing its relationship with Great Britain
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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 “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: -Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. The name was loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire, which was containment of the Soviet Union in the interwar period.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following best describes the United States’ policy of containment following World War II? The United States would use economic and military measures to prevent the spread of Communism.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.