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Policy of Containment
07 February 2016 21:34
After the World War 2, the strategy of the West towards Soviet
block crystallized as a "Policy of Containment". Critically
analyse. (200 Words)
Policy of Containment was a United States policy to prevent the spread of
communism abroad.
After reaching an agreement at Yalta, USSR, established governments which owe
allegiance to Russian in Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, and
Czechoslovakia. The USA countered these moves by Truman Doctrine, and
Marshall Plan. Congress helped Truman with $400 million for aid to Greece and
Turkey. With this aid, both Greece and Turkey successfully resisted
Communism.
Tensions that produced the Cold War were the result of a set of misconceptions
on both sides. USA, had persuaded by wartime government propaganda to
admire the Russians as stalwarts antifascists, were naively disillusioned when
they discovered that their erstwhile allies were in face not democrats. They feared
Russians were hatching on weakness of Western Europe. However, scholars were
convinced that soviets were not willing to undertake any such campaign,
primarily because they were economically and military incapable of doing so.
President Truman's by his "Containment Speech," he influenced the American
government to break free from Isolationism and stop the threat of spreading
communism in Europe.
Korean War of 1952 and Hbomb fear made both US and USSR forming political
and strategic pacts, viz. NATO, SEATO and Warsaw Pact. Cold War in 195262s
reached its peak resulting Cuban missile crisis.
Even though there was no physical fighting between America and Russia there
was always a fear of either Russia or America shall launch their nuclear war heads
on each other.
Thus, the policy of Containment influenced the Cold War in a negative way by
increasing the tensions primarily between the US and Russia.
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