Title: Was the US’s containment policy effective during the Cold War? | by August Frederico | Medium
Headings: Was the US’s containment policy effective during the Cold War?
Was the US’s containment policy effective during the Cold War?
Content: The free people of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms.” ( Truman Doctrine, 1947, page 2). This containment policy was effective in preventing the spread of communism. The Cold War was c a lled so as it technically never heated up into a direct USSR — US war, however the US’s containment policy put these two powers at odds through a series of outside conflicts in a number of theaters internationally. These military bouts served to further the containment policies goal by preventing the spread of communism through direct military action. The first of these actions the two sides were involved in took place directly after World War 1. The USSR cut off supplies to the western controlled West Berlin, causing the western nations to jointly organize an international airlift, highlighting the early formation of USSR-US backed blocks. These blocks would be paramount in the formation of close US allies with whom the US could aid and trust to support their foreign policy. Over the course of the airlift, 8,893 tons of necessities were delivered daily by the combined Air Forces of the western block, making it the greatest airlift of all time and proving the strength of the US and its allies (Donnelly, 1965, page. 19).