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Containment was coined by George Kennan, one of our few Russian experts and serves as an ambassador to Russia. He looks at the problem with the Soviet Union and writes the Long Telegram and said the soviets will only understand force, but we don't have to go to war and we should focus on containing them. He stated that we have a vital and peripheral areas and that we just have to keep them from spreading to our vital areas of interest (Western and Eastern Hemisphere and Japan). In order to contain the Soviet Union, we needed military alliances, military preparedness and he recommends foreign aid.
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FranOne example was NATO - the north Atlantic treaty association which established the security of Western Europe against the threat of a soviet invasion
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Who was the American Diplomat who stressed the need to contain communism within its current borders?
George F. Kennan was the US Diploment responsible for urging the policy of containment during the soviet expansion.
How did Kennan's Long Telegram contribute to the development of the Cold War?
George Kennan's "Long Telegram" essentially depicted the USSR driven by expansionist Communist ideology. It gave the soviets the name that they would constantly probe for weaker nations.
What is the containment doctrine?
a doctrine of containment :p
What policy did the Truman Doctrine support?
Containment
What was the doctrine of containment and how was it implemented from 1947 to 1952?
President Truman believed the US needed more than a "get tough on the Russians" policy following the war. Russia's history was one of expansion as much as possible and the Soviet Union was following that same idea. Because of the desire of the Soviets to expand westward, and the fact that Stalin had a pathological mistrust of the US, it would be impossible to come to a peaceful settlement with the Soviets. Thus, the policy of containment, developed by George F. Kennan of the State Department, was adopted by the Truman administration. The policy would allow communism where it already existed, but would use all force necessary to prevent any further expansion. In other words, communism would be "contained" where it presently existed. Because of Russian expansion to the west, a policy carried on by the Soviets, it would be impossible to come to a quick settlement with Stalin, following the Second World War. Since the Russians would test the US by a cautious expansion and not start a major war, Truman developed the Truman Doctrine, with the aid of George Kennan. This Doctrine provided military and financial aid to all the nations that agreed to resist any attempt by Russia to take them over. It was first applied in Greece and Turkey.
