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A 5 page paper which examines the US foreign policy of containment from the late 1940s onward. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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public debate by George F. Kennan, a diplomat and U.S. State Department adviser on Soviet affairs" (Nuclear Files.org). It was implemented in order to protect the world from the imposing
and powerful threat of communism. As such it was an approach to foreign policy that possessed many different levels of involvement around the world, and on the domestic front in
the United States. The following paper examines the policy of containment in US history from the years following WWII onward. Containment in US History
As mentioned, containment was implemented in order to protect against the threat of communism. That applied to the entire world as well as the domestic front in
the United States. It was believed that communism would take over the world if the United States did not actively become involved and keep the Soviet Union, and its ideals,
contained. As one author notes, in relationship to the implementation of containment and the threat, it was believed, in an ideal formed by Kennan, "That the Soviet Union was always
expansionist--the Soviet Union, animated by a new fanatic faith," was determined "to impose its absolute authority on the rest of the world" (OMalley). This was also a threat within the
United States, or it was believed to be a threat, and there was a great deal of effort aimed at keeping the United States society safe as well.
Another element of the policy of containment was the Marshall Plan. In order to truly contain the communist threat it was necessary for economic
aid to become part of the process as it related to helping Europe recover from WWII (An Outline of American History (1994): Chapter Eleven). "With many of the regions nations
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