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The containment policy was the U.S.â??s way of preventing the spread of communism in foreign countries. The Truman administration establish NATO as a defense pact in Europe to prevent the Soviets from extending their sphere of influence. The U.S. also intervened in the war between South Korea and North Korea.

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