Containment - Revision history

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clean up

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Undo revision 747806 by Anonymizator (Talk)

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details from Long Telegram

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 ==See also==
 * [[List of military strategies and concepts]]
 ==External links==

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 [[Category:Cold War]]
 [[Category:United States History]]
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 [[Category:Military Strategies and Concepts]]

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 Containment was a major part of the [[Truman Doctrine]], laid out in 1947 and first applied in Greece and Turkey.
-==See Also==
+==See also==
 * [[List of military strategies and concepts]]
 ==External links==
-[http://www.ntanet.net/KENNAN.html Text of Kennan's '''Long Telegram''']
+* [http://www.ntanet.net/KENNAN.html Text of Kennan's '''Long Telegram''']
-[[category:Cold War]]
+[[Category:Cold War]]
-[[category:United States History]]
+[[Category:United States History]]
-[[Category:diplomacy]]
+[[Category:Diplomacy]]
 [[Category:Military Strategies and Concepts]]

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 Containment was a major part of the [[Truman Doctrine]], laid out in 1947 and first applied in Greece and Turkey.
 ==External links==
 [http://www.ntanet.net/KENNAN.html Text of Kennan's '''Long Telegram''']
 [[category:Cold War]]
 [[category:United States History]]
 [[Category:diplomacy]]

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−	~~Page corrected~~ by ~~Anon~~	+	'''Containment''' was the policy of the [[United States]] after [[World War II]] to assist small countries in their resistance against [[communism]]. The idea was to counter act the [[Soviet]] pressures so that communism would not spread further.
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		+	The term was coined by diplomat [[George F. Kennan]] in 1946, in an anonymous article written to the journal ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', titled ''The Sources of Soviet Conduct''. Kennan argued that the Soviet Union suffered from paranoia and fear of foreign invasion, and thus would seek to build a network of buffer states. However, Soviet leaders were also inherently risk averse and would quickly back down when confronted with an American show of force.
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		+	Containment was a major part of the [[Truman Doctrine]], laid out in 1947 and first applied in Greece and Turkey.
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		+	==External links==
		+	[http://www.ntanet.net/KENNAN.html Text of Kennan's '''Long Telegram''']
		+	[[category:Cold War]]
		+	[[category:United States History]]
		+	[[Category:diplomacy]]

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−	'''Containment''' was the policy of the [[United States]] after [[World War II]] to assist small countries in their resistance against [[communism]]. The idea was to counter act the [[Soviet]] pressures so that communism would not spread further.	+	Page corrected by Anon
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−	~~The term was coined~~ by diplomat [[George F. Kennan]] in 1946, in an anonymous article written to the journal ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', titled ''The Sources of Soviet Conduct''. Kennan argued that the Soviet Union suffered from paranoia and fear of foreign invasion, and thus would seek to build a network of buffer states. However, Soviet leaders were also inherently risk averse and would quickly back down when confronted with an American show of force.
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−	~~Containment was a major part of the [[Truman Doctrine]], laid out in 1947 and first applied in Greece and Turkey.~~
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−	~~==External links==~~
−	~~[http://www.ntanet.net/KENNAN.html Text of Kennan's '''Long Telegram''']~~
−	~~[[category:Cold War]]~~
−	~~[[category:United States History]]~~
−	~~[[Category:diplomacy]]~~

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 '''Containment''' was the policy of the [[United States]] after [[World War II]] to assist small countries in their resistance against [[communism]].  The idea was to counter act the [[Soviet]] pressures so that communism would not spread further.
-The term was coined by diplomat [[George F. Kennan]] in 1946, in an anonymous article written to the journal ''[[Foreign Affairs]]''.  Kennon stressed that the Soviet Union did not intend to be at peace with the United States, and that containing it was of utmost importance.
+The term was coined by diplomat [[George F. Kennan]] in 1946, in an anonymous article written to the journal ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', titled ''The Sources of Soviet Conduct''.  Kennan argued that the Soviet Union suffered from paranoia and fear of foreign invasion, and thus would seek to build a network of buffer states.  However, Soviet leaders were also inherently risk averse and would quickly back down when confronted with an American show of force.
-Containment was a major part of the [[Truman Doctrine]], laid out in 1947.
+Containment was a major part of the [[Truman Doctrine]], laid out in 1947 and first applied in Greece and Turkey.
 [[category:Cold War]]
 [[category:United States History]]