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A 9
page overview of the varying foreign policies which were employed by the
United States during the Cold War years. This paper analyzes the
differences between the policies suggested by George F. Kennan, a
diplomat and U.S. State Department adviser on Soviet affairs, and those
entailed by the report issued by the National Security Council entitled
NSC-68, a report generated upon the insistence of President Truman who
initiated a reconsideration of American foreign policy at the end of the
1940s. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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War must come to terms with the containment doctrine and strategies. These strategies varied, of course, over time. This variation lends to the fact that the years
which fell during the Cold War became some of the most interesting of world history. Two containment strategies in particular added to this interest. These were the strategies
which would come to be known as the Kennan school of containment and the, somewhat pandectically named, NSC-68. The intent of the Cold
War, of course was to stabilize world politics and to maintain peace. In reality, it could be contended that the real outcome of this political approach was anything but
a peaceful and secure world order. Indeed, the Cold War itself was a kind of warfare. Even in recognition of the fact that no actual warfare between the
two main players, the Soviet Union and the United States erupted during the Cold War years, it was a period of intense hostility. It was also during this time
in history where smaller nations were the targets of intense competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, competition which paid off in dividends for alliances with one side
or another. These dividends often as not came in the form of nuclear and other extremely effective and formidable weapons, weapons which they in turn could, and sometimes did,
turn against one another. The Kennan school of containment had its impetus during the earlier part of the Cold War years. George
F. Kennan, a diplomat and U.S. State Department adviser on Soviet affairs, contended that: "a
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