HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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what ideas contributed to the development of the U.S. containment policy
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how did the events of the Korean War reshape U.S. foreign policy
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why was the public so willling to support the claims of Joseph McCarthy
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what measures did the U.S. take to establish the Marshall Plan
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Detailed explanation-1: -In his telegram to Washington, Kennan provided U.S. policy recommendations based on his analysis of the cultural and historical forces that shaped the motives of Soviet leaders and influenced Soviet conduct around the globe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why did George Kennan think that containment would work against Soviet expansion? According to George Kennan, the containment policy would work against Soviet expansion because its primary goal was to hold communism within its existing borders and prevent it from spreading.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Soviet response to The Long Telegram was The Novikov Telegram, in which the Soviet ambassador to the USA, Nikolai Novikov, warned that the USA had emerged from World War Two economically strong and bent on world domination.
Detailed explanation-4: -In order to counter the vast power of the USSR, Kennan argued, the United States has to mobilize resources and capital as if to prepare for war, in order to keep the influence of the Soviet Union from spreading beyond its current position. This idea came to be known as containment.