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Containment

Containment. What is Containment?. The U.S. Strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries and preventing its further expansion. What is Communism?. Communism favors collective or community ownership of property The government (acting for the people) makes economic decisions

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Containment

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  1. Containment

  2. What is Containment? • The U.S. Strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries and preventing its further expansion.

  3. What is Communism? • Communism favors collective or community ownership of property • The government (acting for the people) makes economic decisions • “From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs”

  4. Why did America want to Contain Communism? • Communists seek to overthrow existing governments in violent revolutions

  5. Three phases of Containment • Truman Doctrine • Marshall Plan • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  6. The Truman Doctrine • United States policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism. • Truman decides to fight communism “anywhere, anytime” • Unofficial declaration of war against US

  7. The Marshall Plan • A massive aid package offered by the United States to Europe to help countries rebuild after World War II. • U.S. offered the same aid to the USSR and its allies, but they did not accept it. • The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. • By 1952 as the funding ended, the economy of every participant state had surpassed pre-war levels

  8. The Marshall Plan

  9. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) • A military alliance between several North Atlantic states to safeguard them from the presumed threat of the Soviet Union’s communist bloc; countries from other regions later joined.

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