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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]]'', 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 and first applied in Greece and Turkey.
==See also==
* [[List of military strategies and concepts]]
*[[Operation Unthinkable]]
==External links==
* [http://www.ntanet.net/KENNAN.html Text of Kennan's '''Long Telegram''']
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