WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -George F. 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-2: -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-3: -The US tried to stop the spread of communism by the Marshall Plan (giving economic aid to devasted countries), by the Berlin Airlift, by the creation of NATO and by helping form the United Nations.

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: -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.