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d. stop the spread of communism in the region
The geopolitical imperative foreign policy known as Containment was used by the United States" to resolve the situation during the cold war. The approach of "containment" is famously recognized as a Cold War external behavior of the US embodiment of World War II. As a segment of the Cold War, this strategy was an acknowledgment to the Soviet Union's progress to expand communist control in Eastern Europe. Answer from: yurrr30
D. stop the spread of communism in the region
After 1959 toward Soviet communism alienated the United States. An attempted invasion failed, and at the peak of the Cold War in 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis threatened major war as the Soviet Union installed nuclear weapons in Cuba to defend it from an American invasion. There was no invasion, but the United States imposed an economic boycott on Cuba that remains in effect, as well as a break of diplomatic relations that lasted until 2015. The US also saw the rise of left-wing governments in central America as a threat, and in some cases, overthrew democratically elected governments perceived at the time as becoming left-wing or unfriendly to U.S. interests. Examples include the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and the support of the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.