COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Marshall Plan
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Truman Doctrine
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Policy of containment
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Warsaw Pact
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The goal of the Truman Doctrine was containment. The goal of containment was to “contain” communism in the countries in which it was already the ruling political system.
Detailed explanation-3: -Overview. 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-4: -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.