American Policy Of Containment Essay

The Cold War began not too long after World War II ended in 1945, was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed specifically between the United States and the Soviet Union(USSR) and those countries' respective allies from 1945 (end of World War II) to 1989 (fall of Berlin Wall). Throughout this period, the most powerful countries in the world were starting to became enemies. But instead of fighting with guns and bullets they fought with games and competition like the Olympics meaning that the conflict was expressed through military coalitions, weapons development, invasions, propaganda, and competitive technological development, which included the space race such as competition of who landed on the moon and go
The Allied Powers divided Germany, particularly Berlin, into East and West with Berlin divided into three districts occupied by England, the United States and the Soviet Union. It quickly became clear to the West that the Soviet Union was not satisfied with simply taking their spoils. In addition to this, the United States President during that time Harry S. Truman, felt it was necessary for the US to have a policy concerning the Soviet Union’s appeared designs on Empire. From the Soviet threat came the American policy of Containment. The policy of Containment was a foreign policy strategy created by the US after WWII founding its first key purpose in the Truman Doctrine of 1947. It's also a strategy plan that the U.S. used in the Cold War to prevent communism country, the Soviet Union from spreading Communism by providing either military support, economic and/or technical assistance to noncommunist countries. for instance one of the ways to accomplish this was by establishing NATO so that the western European countries had a defense against communists. Its purpose by so doing was to contain the domino effect of the growing influence and power of the Soviet Union over other noncommunist country's political system