WORLD HISTORY

COLD WAR ERA

IMPACT OF COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which statement best describes the policy of containment?
A
The US wanted to stop the spread of communism so they took actions like the Truman Doctrine which supported countries that avoided communism. The USSR on the other hand took actions like making allies in the Warsaw Pact to help spread communism
B
Containing is stopping something from moving. The US wanted to beat the USSR so they tried to stop them or another word is they tried to contain them. This lasted for many years and used lots of tactic like sports and nuclear war.
C
Containing something is stopping it from spreading. Like putting a bug in a container.
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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: -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: -While military action delivered repeated blows against the Soviet’s worldwide spread of communism, economic policies dictated by the US containment policy tied up, starved, and eventually collapsed the USSR and their international communist influence.

Detailed explanation-4: -The goals of containment were to keep communism from spreading to other countries. The truman doctrine was the policy of the US to support free peoples who are resisting soviet pressures to become communist. The Eisenhower doctrine spread those goal by taking the truman doctrine to include the middle east.

Detailed explanation-5: -COLD WAR POLICY OF CONTAINMENT His Cold War policy was known as containment. The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan are examples of how the United States sought to prevent communism from spreading (containment).

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