HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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containment
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deterrence
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militarism
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perestroika
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, and further developed on July 4, 1948, when he pledged to contain the communist uprisings in Greece and Turkey. More generally, the Truman Doctrine implied American support for other nations threatened by Moscow.
Detailed explanation-3: -Implications. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Truman Doctrine generally succeeded in containing Communism to its pre-1945 borders with exceptions in southeast Asia, Cuba, and Afghanistan.
Detailed explanation-4: -Containment was a foreign policy strategy followed by the United States during the Cold War. First laid out by George F. Kennan in 1947, the policy stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries.
Detailed explanation-5: -One of the most successful U.S. foreign policies of the last 50 years may well have been containment, which the United States used from 1947 until the end of the Cold War to block the expansion of Soviet power and influence.