USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

THE COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the containment policy?
A
Invade current Communist countries with force
B
Prevent expansion of Communism into other areas
C
Imprison all Communist leaders
D
None of the above
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 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-3: -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-4: -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-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.

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