The Policy of Containment

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This essay examines the policy of containment of communism its context and evolution during the Truman administration in the late 1940s, as well as policy alternatives that were presented to this strategic doctrine both inside and outside the US administration. The paper argues that the eventual form of the Truman containment policy owes as much, if not more, to the complex political struggles within the United States as to any grand strategy of international relations or to the actual actions or policies of the Soviet Union.

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"The Policy of Containment 1946-1949: Its Context, Evolution and Policy Alternatives Both Within and Outside the Truman Administration Introduction In the wake of the Second World War a new form of warfare made its appearance in global international relations: Cold War. While there exists wide disagreement among scholars regarding the ultimate origins of the Cold War, the so-called "Truman doctrine" of containment represented a critical contribution to the elevation of hostilities between the one-time Second World War allies, the Soviet Union and the United States."

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