How Long Was George Kennan's Containment Plan

In 1947, George Kennan came up with an attempt of foreign policy, an approach to international relations to reduce the spread of communism. He wanted to make sure we keep communism within borders and stop the spread of communism. He stated that to contain the spread of communism, it would need to stay within the borders. This was a post-war attempt against the allies of the Soviet Union. This was a different option from a third world war or appeasement which was containment. The third option was to create a strategy against the Soviet Union.
Kennan’s policy was controversial from the start. Others thought that we should tackle the problem head on whenever the Soviets or Communist allies showed a threat. Columnist Walter Lippman disagreed with the containment policy and thought we needed to have a fine line between vital and peripheral interests. Kennan however did not want to start a war and simply wanted to contain the communism to prevent from spread to other countries. Kennan wanted to strengthen industrial powers to decrease soviet expansion in the US, Japan, and Western Europe.
Others felt it should instead be a liberation to Eastern Europe and a rollback to Soviet powers. Basically, John Foster Dulles, and others thought that the Soviet should have a decrease in powers and that eventually Eastern Europe would become free of this. Kennan truly felt this was a more political issue felt that the best to be done was to offer financial assistance such as the Marshall Plan which aided Western Europe to combat the expansion of communism. This 12-billion-dollar aid helped rebuild the country after World War II. However, even if others didn’t agree with the containment policy it remained throughout the cold