HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Hate groups
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Communism
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The economy
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The Holocaust
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Detailed explanation-1: -Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical rule of his own country.
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: -Communism was the primary concern of the U.S. during the Cold War. The United States had a capitalist economy, while the Soviet Union had a communist economy. The U.S. was concerned that communism would spread to other countries.
Detailed explanation-4: -The United States feared specifically a domino effect, that the communism of the USSR would spread from one country to the next, destabilizing one nation which would, in turn, destabilize the next and allow for communist regimes to dominate the region.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.