HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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The U.S. would try to restrict the spread of Fascism in Europe.
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The U.S. would help to rebuild the nations of Japan and Germany.
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Due to the importance, the U.S. would increase spending into the Space Race.
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The U.S. would try to prevent the spread of Communism anywhere in the world.
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-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. An early test of containment came in Greece and Turkey.
Detailed explanation-4: -Kennan and Containment, 1947 Kennan, a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of “containment, ‘’ the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war (1947–1989) with the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-5: -How was the United States’ policy of containment related to the Marshall Plan? d. The United States believed that the economic aid provided by the Marshall Plan would help contain the spread of Communism.
Detailed explanation-6: -The U.S. adopted the Policy of Containment because communism seemed to be on the rise around the world in the late 1940s. The U.S. wanted to stop communism’s expansion without fighting an all out war with the Soviet Union and China.