HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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to keep something from spreading
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to spread something
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to put leftovers in a container
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None of the above
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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. The name was loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire, which was containment of the Soviet Union in the interwar period.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kennan and Containment, 1947 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-3: -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-4: -With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.