USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Overview. 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: -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.