USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

THE COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What phrase describes a goal of U.S. foreign policy after World War 2?
A
Ending colonial empires
B
Containing the spread of communism
C
Revitalizing the Soviet economy
D
Reducing aid to the British
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -Security, prosperity, and the creation of a better world are the three most prominent goals of American foreign policy.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the years after World War II, the United States was guided generally by containment-the policy of keeping communism from spreading beyond the countries already under its influence. The policy applied to a world divided by the Cold War, a struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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