After the World Wars the geopolitical situation of the world got a new dimension. The ‘Cold War’ divided the world into two camps and for creating their respective sphere of influence‚ armed race started. In the name of ‘Truman Doctrine’ or ‘Containment Theory’‚ President Truman started to provide political‚ military and economic assistance to all nations
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Containment is a military strategy to stop the “expansion” of the enemy. It is best known for the attempt to stop communism. Within the containment came the Marshall Plan. This was an American idea to aid Western Europe. Eventually America gave around 12 billion dollars in aid for their economic stability after World War II
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Containment was a policy used by the Americans used stop the spread of Communism and communist expansion through military‚ political and economic means. Specifically in the Cold War era‚ the U.S. implemented this policy through the Truman Doctrine and the founding of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Another factor of the containment policy was the Soviet Union’s rejection of the Marhsall plan. Containment started in 1949 with the Truman Doctrine. The development of the Truman Doctrine
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“Containment” referred to the strategy of the United States during the Cold War as a method to control Soviet expansion of physical territory and ideological control. It was defined as the application of counter force to pressures or actual physical military action. However‚ containment appears to be a strategy that ended up being at least in part‚ counter productive. In the way that it’s first proponent Kennan described it with the use asymmetrical response to Soviet aggression. This was later replaced
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communism to other nations‚ America centered its foreign policy on the "containment" of communism‚ both at home and abroad. Although formulation of the Truman Doctrine‚ Marshall Plan‚ and the Berlin Airlift suggested that the United States had a particular concern with the spread of communism in Europe‚ America’s policy of containment extended to Asia as well. Indeed‚ Asia proved to be the site of the first major battle waged in the name of containment: the Korean War. In 1950 the Korea Peninsula was divided
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George Kennan introduced America’s Policy of Containment in 1947. This policy had a few good points but many more bad points. Kennan’s depiction of communism as a "malignant parasite" that had to be contained by all possible measures became the basis of the Truman Doctrine‚ Marshall Plan‚ and National Security Act in 1947. In his Inaugural Address of January 20‚ 1949‚ Truman made four points about his "program for peace and freedom": to support the UN‚ the European Recovery Program‚ the collective
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Cold War and Containment Dated from 1947-1991 the Cold War was an intense economic‚ political‚ ideological‚ and military tension between the powers of the Western world‚ led by the United States against the powers of the Eastern world led by the Soviet Union. Because of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) these two countries never came head to head like previous wars‚ however they would fight each other in proxy wars. This sustained a high level of hostility throughout the war and
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Question1 Containment was the foreign policy put forth by the United States to challenge Russia during the Cold War (Kennan and Containment‚ n.d.). This Policy was based on a letter written by George Kennan called the X Article (Jones‚ 2008). The letter called for the United States to contain communism from any further expansion. Under President Truman‚ this became policy and would continue for many years and Presidents after him. Since the letter did not define the terms on how to contain communism
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adopted a policy of containment to keep communism in the USSR and the other places it had spread. The U.S.’s main goal was to prevent the spread of communism and they did everything diplomatically‚ militarily‚ and economically in their power to do so. During the 1940s and 1950s‚ the policy of containment was a sensible approach to the potential threat that the Soviet Union inflicted upon the United States. Although there were some mistakes in the domestic and foreign policy to the policy of containment
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stories‚ and provide a truth behind the bloodshed. The Vietnam War is referred to as the “longest and most unpopular American War of the 20th century”(Overview)‚ that lasted from 1955 to 1975. In the US‚ the war began as a result of the U.S. policy of Containment. This policy’s goal was to prevent the spread of communism throughout the world. The Viet Minh is a communist led
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