Truman's Policy Of Containment And Rollback
Truman’s Policy of Containment and Mac Arthur’s strategy of “Rollback.”
Jean-Pierre Goldring 2 May 2017
Harry Truman’s policy of containment and General Mac Arthur’s strategy of “rollback” had many similarities and differences, but only one of them really was in line with world peace proposed by the UN.
At the start of the Cold War the United States thought that the threat of communism was large, and that it should not be allowed to spread into countries in which it had not yet taken over. With the main intention to prevent the spread of communism in Europe, American president Harry Truman proposed the policy of containment which was to do just that,
prevent the further spread of communism. Later in the Cold war President Eisenhower proposed the strategy of rollback where USA would try force a change in major policies in Korea, using force. The actions of both plans differed, but they both had the same goal, which was to deal with the threat of communism. Both leaders who proposed these plans believed the same thing; that communism was not the way forward, and it needed to be stopped.
In some ways the policy of containment and the rollback strategy were similar, but in many other ways they were completely different. Rollback was much more violent and aggressive as opposed to the somewhat passive policy of containment. In the Korean War Truman adopted a rollback strategy where they sent UN forces from South Korea, across the 38th parallel, into North Korea to take it over and try destroy their government.
Jean-Pierre Goldring 2 May 2017
Harry Truman’s policy of containment and General Mac Arthur’s strategy of “rollback” had many similarities and differences, but only one of them really was in line with world peace proposed by the UN.
At the start of the Cold War the United States thought that the threat of communism was large, and that it should not be allowed to spread into countries in which it had not yet taken over. With the main intention to prevent the spread of communism in Europe, American president Harry Truman proposed the policy of containment which was to do just that,
prevent the further spread of communism. Later in the Cold war President Eisenhower proposed the strategy of rollback where USA would try force a change in major policies in Korea, using force. The actions of both plans differed, but they both had the same goal, which was to deal with the threat of communism. Both leaders who proposed these plans believed the same thing; that communism was not the way forward, and it needed to be stopped.
In some ways the policy of containment and the rollback strategy were similar, but in many other ways they were completely different. Rollback was much more violent and aggressive as opposed to the somewhat passive policy of containment. In the Korean War Truman adopted a rollback strategy where they sent UN forces from South Korea, across the 38th parallel, into North Korea to take it over and try destroy their government.