Containment During The Cold War

When an illness is threatening or starting to spread, it is the natural response to quarantine it until it either dies out or a cure is found. The United States policy of containment brought about during the cold war was an effort to stop the expansion of communism to other regions. Though communism was thought of as both something that could be lived with and without, America was right to think of it as a threat to the American way of life.
The Soviet Union was looking to expand their way of life and basically take away liberty, slowly but surely. It may not have seemed so at first, and it is apparent because of the actions of presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter. With their choices to deny containment in the spirit of trade and relations,
and human rights respectively, they both sought different approaches that acknowledged them as if they were not a threat. But then things changed and the phrase that best captures the idea of a good terms drastically changing is the introduction to Avatar the last Air bender “Everything Changed when the Fire Nation attacked” that is to say when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, they opened all eyes to what they were intending to do, changing the mindset of the very people who trusted them. Their actions made President Carter shift from Détente to containment, thus acknowledging them as expansionist’s that could eventually make their way towards impeding on American Liberty.
Even though it could be thought that the United states was completely misguided in trying to contain the idea of communism, it was justified and helped preserve liberty. The fact that the Soviets made an invasion revealed their true intentions as expansionists, and as threats to the way of life that other regions