WORLD HISTORY

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: -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-3: -The United States adopted a policy of containment containment containment. It called for the United States to resist Soviet attempts to form new Communist governments. President Harry Truman applied this policy when he gave aid to Greece and Turkey to keep them from becoming Soviet satellite nations.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the years after World War II, the United States was guided generally by containment-the policy of keeping communism from spreading beyond the countries already under its influence. The policy applied to a world divided by the Cold War, a struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-5: -Security, prosperity, and the creation of a better world are the three most prominent goals of American foreign policy.