Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Containment
Containment was a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism to other nations around the world. This policy arose as a direct response to counter the Soviet ambition of expansion into neighboring territories. Containment was based off of a telegram sent by George F. Kennan to the United States Government which stated that if Communism was not contained then it would attempt expand to the rest of the world. As a result of the Long Telegram, President Harry Truman created the Truman Doctrine which stated that the United States would help any country under the threat of Communism. Also the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO for short) was a combination of countries whose goal was to combat the Soviet Union.
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When we applied containment to Vietnam, it was horrendous, mainly because the US could only stand up to Communism, not attack Communism and try to subdue it (that would result in war... War with Communism=War with USSR)
ReplyDeleteSome containment policies worked more than others but they both wanted to prevent the spread of communism to other nations before it spread all over the world which the USSR wanted. The U.S. wanted to stop this so we went out of our way to stop all communism threat to any nations. Some successful containment policies by the U.S. was the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, the Berlin Airlift, and many more policies.
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