Jean-Pierre Goldring 2 May 2017
Harry Truman’s policy of containment and General Mac Arthur’s strategy of “rollback” had many similarities and differences, but only one of them really was in line with world peace proposed by the UN.
At the start of the Cold War the United States thought that the threat of communism was large, and that it should not be allowed to spread into countries in which it had not yet taken over. With the main intention to prevent the spread of communism in Europe, American president Harry Truman proposed the policy of containment which was to do just that,