COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Containment
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Yalta
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Warsaw Pact
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Mutually Assured Destruction
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -The Truman Doctrine was motivated by the idea of containment or limiting communism to the areas already under USSR’s control.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -con·tain·ment kən-ˈtān-mənt. Synonyms of containment. : the act, process, or means of keeping something within limits. the containment of health costs. : the policy, process, or result of preventing the expansion of a hostile power or ideology.