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Containment

Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. The name was loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire, which was containment of the Soviet Union in the interwar period.

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Earlier uses of term

Origin (1944–1947)

Harry S. Truman

Alternative strategies

Korea

Dulles

Cuba

Vietnam

Afghanistan

Reagan Doctrine

After the Cold War

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Containment

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Triples281
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Containment

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related to Further reading · 96
Containment → Alan, American, American Diplomacy, American Foreign Policy, American National Security Policy, American Theatre, American-Soviet, American-Soviet Relations, An American Life, Anticommunism, Approaches In Cold War, Arc, Between, Borhi, Britain, Bruce, Chicago Press, Christian, Cold War, Cold War Interventions
related to Historiography and memory · 34
Containment → American Strategic, Anderson, Autumn, Brookings Institution Press, Cold War, Condemned, Corke, Drew, Foreign Policy, Garthoff, History, Intelligence, Issue, Kort, Lexington Books, Making, Michael, Naming, National Security, Nelson
related to Harry S. Truman · 25
Containment → After Republicans, American, Cold War, Congress, Davis, Democrat, Greek, Herbert Feis, In, In March, Iran, Lynn, Poland, Portraying, President Truman, Soviet, Soviets, This, Truman, Truman Doctrine
related to Alternative strategies · 22
Containment → American, CIO, Commerce, Communists, Henry Wallace, However Arthur, Midwest, President Herbert Hoover, Progressive Party, Republicans, Roosevelt, Secretary, Senator Robert, Soviet Union, Taft, The, There, Truman, Vandenberg, Wallace
related to Korea · 22
Containment → For, General Douglas MacArthur, His, However, Inchon, Initially, Korean War, MacArthur, MacArthur's, Mao, North Korea, North Korea's, Parallel, South Korea, South Korea's, The, The Chinese, The Communists, Truman, Truman's
related to Vietnam · 21
Containment → Acheson, Bible, Democratic, General William Westmoreland, Goldwater, Hitherto, Johnson, Kennan, Laos, MacArthur, Military, President Lyndon Johnson, Rallies, Rejecting, Republican, Senator Barry Goldwater, The, The Wise Men, Truman, Vietnam War
related to Earlier uses of term · 20
Containment → Between, Bismarck, Both Americans, Chancellor Otto, Europeans, France, France's, French Republicans, Germany, Historian James Oakes, In, In Belgium, It, Italy, MacMahon, President Patrice, Spain, That, The, United States
related to Dulles · 14
Containment → American, CIA, Cold War, Dulles, Eastern Europe, Eisenhower, Eisenhower's, Hungarian Revolution, In, John Foster Dulles, Many Republicans, President Eisenhower, Soviet Army, Truman
related to After the Cold War · 8
Containment → China, Cold War, Germany, Iceland, Much, Russia, The, Turkey
related to Afghanistan · 7
Containment → Afghanistan, Carter Doctrine, However, President Jimmy Carter, Soviet, The, Truman Doctrine

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Containmentrelated to AfghanistanPresident Jimmy Carter0.60section
Containmentrelated to AfghanistanHowever0.60section
Containmentrelated to AfghanistanSoviet0.60section
Containmentrelated to AfghanistanAfghanistan0.60section
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Containmentrelated to AfghanistanCarter Doctrine0.60section
Containmentrelated to AfghanistanTruman Doctrine0.60section
Containmentrelated to After the Cold WarThe0.60section
Containmentrelated to After the Cold WarCold War0.60section
Containmentrelated to After the Cold WarRussia0.60section

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