us instituted the marshall plan foreign policy to stop the spread of communism.
what foreign policy did the us institute to stop the spread of communism?
the marshall plan
most nations aligned with either the western or eastern camp, but after 1960 the soviets broke with china as the communist movement worldwide became divided. some countries, such as india and yugoslavia, tried to be neutral. rejecting the rollback of communism by force because it risked nuclear war, washington developed a new strategy called containment to oppose the spread of communism. the containment policy was developed by u.s. diplomat george kennan in 1947. kennan characterized the soviet union as an aggressive, anti-western power that necessitated containment, a characterization which would shape us foreign policy for decades to come. the idea of containment was to match soviet aggression with force wherever it occurred while not using nuclear weapons. the policy of containment created a bipolar, zero-sum world where the ideological conflicts between the soviet union and the united states dominated geopolitics. due to the antagonism on both sides and each countries' search for security, a tense worldwide contest developed between the two states as the two nations' governments vied for global supremacy militarily, culturally, and influentially.
history of united states foreign policy
bullet::::- "mao's china and the cold war" (chapel hill, nc: the university of north carolina press, 2001)









































bullet::::- "the china challenge in the 21st century: implications for us foreign policy" (washington, dc: us institute of peace, 1998)









































bullet::::- "chinese communist foreign policy and the cold war in asia: new documentary evidence, 1944-1950" (co-edited with zhang shuguang; chicago: imprint publications, 1996)









































bullet::::- "china's road to the korean war: the making of the sino-american confrontation" (new york: columbia university press, 1994)
chen jian (academic)