COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Soviets could have a free hand in international affairs.
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United States should invade the Soviet Union.
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United States was committed to preventing the spread of communism.
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United States accepted the right of communism to exist anywhere.
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Detailed explanation-1: -George F. Kennan authored the concept of containment, according to which the United States should “contain” Soviet expansionism but should not use, or threaten to use, force to remove the communist regime. Kennan first raised the idea in what became known as “The Long Telegram, ” sent on February 22, 1946.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.
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.