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containment
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containment

Strategic U.S. foreign policy of the late 1940s and early 1950s intended to check the expansionist designs of the Soviet Union through economic, military, diplomatic, and political means. It was conceived by George Kennan soon after World War II. An early application of containment was the Truman Doctrine (1947), which provided U.S. aid to Greece and Turkey. See also Marshall Plan.
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His intellectual heroes are George Kennan, the statesman who coined the policy of containment, and Reinhold Niebuhr, the theologian who reconciled moral principles with the hard-headed interests of real-politik.
Cold comfort: liberalism's hawkish past is less useful as a guide to ... by Kaplan, Fred / Washington Monthly
What she really means is that these challenges have never been included in the official diagnostic categories, which reveals as much about the policy of containment as about autism.
Strange New Worlds by Fisher, James T. / Commonweal
The policy of containment, for example, that became the face of American foreign policy in response to communist imperialism did not reflect America's true ability to force the Soviet Union into submission.
Origins and End of the New World Order by Bishirjian, Richard J. / Modern Age
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