USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

THE COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the main goal of the United States policy of containment?
A
prevent communism from spreading
B
Provide weapons to communist countries
C
Help North Korea
D
Prevent capitalism from spreading
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The goals of containment were to keep communism from spreading to other countries. The truman doctrine was the policy of the US to support free peoples who are resisting soviet pressures to become communist. The Eisenhower doctrine spread those goal by taking the truman doctrine to include the middle east.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -By 1947, the United States adopted a policy of containment to restrict Soviet global power. This became a defining element of foreign policy in President Harry Truman’s administration.

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