COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Eisenhower
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Kennedy
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Truman
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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. An early test of containment came in Greece and Turkey.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, and further developed on July 4, 1948, when he pledged to contain the communist uprisings in Greece and Turkey.
Detailed explanation-5: -It called for U.S. policy initiatives toward communism in general, and the Soviet Union specifically, to “contain” communism in countries where it existed in 1946.