containment
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- Earlier uses of term
- Origin (1944–1947)
- Harry S. Truman
- Alternative strategies
- Korea
- Dulles
- Cuba
- Vietnam
- Afghanistan
- Reagan Doctrine
- After the Cold War
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- Historiography and memory
- External links
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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. The name was loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire, which was containment of the Soviet Union in the interwar period.