Apush Foreign Policy Questions And Answers

Rishabh Swarnkar
Period 3, APUSH

Foreign and Domestic Policy Questions

Foreign Policy Questions
1. The United States adopted a broad foreign policy strategy that has come to be known as containment, which is still somewhat utilized today. Containment was designed to “contain” the spread of communism. Containment policy was created by George Kennan, and it became the foundation of Truman's foreign policy. The Truman Doctrine was the first implementation of this containment policy. In 1947 at a speech, Truman pointed out that the US was going to intervene in Greece and Turkey to provide economic and military aid, since a communist takeover was beginning. Essentially, the Truman Doctrine stated that the US would provide sustenance to countries against communism. Through these means, the United States wanted to stop the spread of communism. Containment was the overarching trait of foreign policy that buttressed all Cold War strategy and the policy itself.

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President Truman, after Eisenhower and Kennedy, continued this ongoing foreign policy, resulting in both success and demise. As part of the containment policy, the United States decided to launch another initiative known as the Marshall Plan; this was a program designed to provide aid for war-stricken Europe. In other words, it was designed to rebuild the broken-down economies of various European states which were devastated by World War II, in effect between 1948 and 1951. Under this plan, many countries received substantial aid packages, which were funded by the US. This was implemented for a number of political reasons. The United States felt obligated to help in the economic reorganization of Europe in order to prevent expansion of communism, and also to ensure that numerous democratic states would be