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Noun Concept

Categories: Cold War policies, Anti-communism in the United States, Presidency of Harry S. Truman, Soviet Union–United States relations, Articles with short description

containment contain Communist expansion containment doctrine containment policy containment strategy

A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully WordNet 3.0

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A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. Wikipedia

Geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. Wikipedia Disambiguation

A policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War. Wiktionary

Policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power. Wiktionary (translation)

Containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975 WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

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policy

foreign policy of the United States

political strategy

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United States

DERIVATION

check

WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

containment