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According to The Penguin Encyclopedia of American History, page 383, the Truman Doctrine is the "policy statement of the Truman administration anticipating the cold war policy of containment."

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the Truman doctrine is a policy established by president Truman pledging U.S. supportfor "free peoples" resisting communism. containment is a policy of the U.S. intended to prevent communist power from expanding beyond its geographical boundaries after WWII

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Q: What is the difference between the Truman Doctrine of 1947 and the Containment Policy?
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What policy did the Truman Doctrine support?

Containment


What was the United State's policy of containment also known as the Truman Doctrine?

Yes, that is correct. The "containment policy" and the "Truman Doctrine" are often referred to interchangeably.


What was the doctrine of containment?

The doctrine of containment was a U.S. policy to prevent the spread of communism. It was made in response to the Soviet Union's moves to enlarge communist presence in Eastern Europe.


How did the Truman doctrine help promote the principles of the policy of containment?

The Truman doctrine and containment had on common threat, communism. The truman doctrine wanted to help any country threatened by commmunism. Containment was about stopping communism from spreading especially in the U.S.


What US diplomat conceived the policy of containment?

President Harry S. Truman created the Truman Doctrine which called for the policy of containment during the Cold War era.


What year did the Truman Doctrine and Containment policy take place?

i believe it started in 1947


Eisenhower doctrine?

Policy of the US that it would defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country. Restatement of the containment policy.


How did the US hope to use the policy of containment and the Truman Doctrine to respond to the Soviet creation of a iron curtain?

The USA used the policy of containment to help provide aide to those countries who were susceptible to fall under Soviet rule.


How did the Korean war effect the US military?

Defense Department Doctrine shifted from all-out conventional warfare to a Policy of Containment.


Was open door policy adopted by the US after World War 2 to prevent the spread of communism?

Truman Doctrine


What policy did the US attempt to prevent the spread of communism?

The US. adopted a policy of containment towards the spread of Communism. Which in summary means that the US. exercised a policy to stop the Communism movement from spreading into new countries and to contain it where it was at the time.


How Truman Doctrine and the Berlin Airlift were examples of the US foreign policy of?

because they were cointaned by communism and would soon surender if not helped