What was Truman's policy of containment?
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Mar 13, 2018
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Explanation:
During the Cold War, Communism was seen as a threat which was to be thwarted. Thus intervention abroad was justified, Harry Truman invented the "containment doctrine" which was based on the claim that "communism" had to be contained. Isolationism was now an element of the past which was ill-adapted to the ongoing circumstances of the Cold War.
The Jdanov docitrine was its equivalent in the USSR, it was based on hindering American influence and spreading communism in Europe. Eastern Europe gradually became communist and fell under the yoke of the Soviet Union. Despite several rebellion(1956 in Hungary and Prague in 1968), these "popular democracies" were submitted to the Soviet Union until its fall.
