Focus Paper 15
After WWII, the United States and the USSR were racing for power attainment all around the world. Both parties had major and different concerns, the USSR being concerned about their status and legitimization at the international level and America being fearful of the USSR’s atomic emergence and power. The U.S. was fearful of the communist Joseph Tyrrell and its spread of communism in the U.S. It turned out into a relationship of betrayal and enmity between the two. The soviet people adapted to expansionism in aster regions of Europe. It refuted the Americans, and thus, for the security of the U.S., the strategy chosen by President Truman was established. The strategy incorporated as a foreign strategy was Containment.
In order to enact the strategy, President Trumann aided Western Europe through the Marshal Plan. The plan aimed to fight against communism through the economic funding of Western European allies. The strategy of the rumen set the example of anti-communism here. The agenda of the Soviet Union was to equate every nation in terms of economic and political power through communism. Trumann moved against it by funding European states with $20 billion. His motive was clever, and his choice of copping the threat without starting a battle was effective. The result of this move was the suppression of communism without staking a single American life.
The strategy was extended by implementing the Truman Doctrine as the foreign policy in 1947. The idea behind the implementation was to stop imperialism at the time of the Cold War. The U.S. secured the state and forces of Turkey and Greece by adopting the indirect pathway of the armies of the two states in their battle. This strategy of Truman displayed the act of security against communism in the U.S.
The Containment strategy was soulful in the time of the Cold War. The strategy could not do much better to eradicate the establishment of communist threat all over the world by the Soviets. If the containment strategy was not implemented, the threat of bloody war and death tolls could have arisen in the form of another war or nuclear attacks. Trumann’s ideology of anti-communism and policy of containment were influential steps in stopping the worldwide goal of communism by the Soviet Union. He did it within the limitation of American ideology and with the vision to save the lives of the Americans. The ideology was credible, and Truman carried it well.
References
History. The Cold War: Containment. n.d. https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cold-war-history.
Squarespace. U.S. policy of Containment. n.d. http://static1.squarespace.com/static/559bdb63e4b01adcb4fa6bd3/t/57488765b654f95fce388138/1464371045213/Containment+Essay.pdf.
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