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He was anticommunist so he wanted to stop it from spreading. He decided that under the 'Truman Doctrine' the US would help any nation that was in danger of falling to communism. This was his policy of containment, his foreign policy.

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It was the Truman Administration that adopted the policy of containment, which was designed to block the spread of Communism throughout the world. The policy was followed by every subsequent administration until the Cold War ended in 1989.

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I don't think he did. The US policy was one of containment of communism which led us into Southeast Asia and the Cold War for 60 years. This became the official policy for presidents from Truman to Clinton. JFK tried to change the mindset and he may have successfully completed it if he had served his second term in office.

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