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containmentStrategic 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. containment 1. the act or condition of containing, esp of restraining the ideological or political power of a hostile country or the operations of a hostile military force 2. (from 1947 to the mid-1970s) a principle of US foreign policy that sought to prevent the expansion of Communist power 3. Physics the process of preventing the plasma in a controlled thermonuclear reactor from reaching the walls of the reaction vessel, usually by confining it within a configuration of magnetic fields How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. 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. |
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