Development of Containment

  • Harry S. Truman

    Truman implemented the containment policy, that was made to stop the expansion of communism by creating alliances and support some countries to resist communism, and some tactics in the implementation of containment by were the general rhetoric of the Truman Doctrine, the establishment of the NATO, the military emphasis of US policy and the extension of alliances in different parts of the world. on the other hand, Kennan's telegram trigger the mistrust about the soviet union and the communism.
  • Harry S. Truman

    The marshall plan is implemented to support the reconstriction of the european economics rather than military confrontation and its planned to don't led the communism expand.
  • Harry S. Truman

    The first atomic device that the soviets explote cause tensions to the United states and that also mean that the power that the United States had until that time was decreasing.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower containment policy focus on non overtaxing the economy and bankrupting the U.S treasury. He implemented some arrangements designed to encircle the Soviet Union and its allies that are the Central Treaty Organization, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, among others. That were very effective in the way that the nation did not become a garrison state and that the communism didn´t spread.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    The support that Einsenhower had over Mohammed Mossadegn and Jacobo Guzman that help him retain the expansion of communism in those areas.
  • John F. Kennedy

    Kennedy focused on the expansion of Communism and the priority of containment. He believe that he could negotiate with the USSR, and that both countries could coexist pecifically, but as this couldn't be done, Kennedy adopted a policy of containment toward the USSR, demonstrating that the US would pursue a hard-line anti-communist policy. And with these he launched the alliance progress in Latin America and he increased the number of military personal that fought with South Vietnamese troops
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Johnson support the civil rights and public broadcasting. The US commitment to Vietnam war was a part of the U.S. Cold War strategy to fight against communism.
  • Richard Nixon

    Nixon believe that the containment policy was vital to the security of the free world, he supported the expansions of the American troops in Vietnam, in order to the stop expansionist policies of the Soviet Union, and he maintained to keep containment by a different mix of detente, and military asistance.
  • Gerald Ford

    Ford made the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, after south vietnam was defeated.
  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter's focus was on morals and human rights rather than anti-communism. Therefore he reduce the dominance of the US policy of Containment, and implement some human right policies, until when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 that he brought back the policy of containment to stop the USSR