Title: Containment - Wikipedia
Headings: Containment
Containment
Contents
Earlier uses of term
Origin (1944–1947)
Harry S. Truman
Alternative strategies
Korea
Dulles
Cuba
Vietnam
Afghanistan
Reagan Doctrine
After Cold War
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: The strategy of "containment" is best known as a Cold War foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II . As a component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to the Soviet Union's move to increase communist influence in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Containment represented a middle-ground position between detente (relaxation of relations) and rollback (actively replacing a regime). The basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan during the post-WWII term of U.S. President Harry S. Truman. As a description of U.S. foreign policy, the word originated in a report Kennan submitted to U.S. Defense Secretary James Forrestal in 1947, which was later used in a magazine article. Contents
1 Earlier uses of term
2 Origin (1944–1947)
3 Harry S. Truman
4 Alternative strategies
5 Korea
6 Dulles
7 Cuba
8 Vietnam
9 Afghanistan
10 Reagan Doctrine
11 After Cold War
12 See also
13 References
14 Further reading
15 External links
Earlier uses of term
There were major historical precedents familiar to Americans and Europeans. In the 1850s, anti-slavery forces in the United States developed a free soil strategy of containment to stop the expansion of slavery until it later collapsed. Historian James Oakes explains the strategy: The Federal government would surround the south with free states, free territories, and free waters, building what they called a 'cordon of freedom' around slavery, hemming it in until the system's own internal weaknesses forced the slave states one by one to abandon slavery. Between 1873 and 1877, Germany repeatedly intervened in the internal affairs of France's neighbors.