USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Americans supported capitalist economics, while the Soviets supported communist economics. The United States and the Soviet Union avoided direct military conflict for fear that the war would go nuclear. As a result, the adversaries fought through a series of proxy conflicts.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the Cold War, the United States would maintain its stance that the only way to halt the expansion of communism was through development of increasingly advanced weapons systems. Part of a series of articles titled Origins of the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main policies during the Cold War were containment, deterrence, détente and arms control, and the use of military force, as in Vietnam.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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.