Containment

The United States established the idea of containment during the Cold War with the USSR in response to the spread of communism. The USSR quickly began spreading communism into Eastern Europe, China, and Korea; the US applied the idea of containment as an attempt to keep communism in Russia alone. The US combated the spread of communism by means of proxy wars in Vietnam and Korea, although containment was unsuccessful in protecting China, Korea, and Vietnam from communism. Containment established a division between the West, which formed NATO, and the East, which formed the Warsaw Pact.



5/19/09 Created by Hannah Hollon and Frances Grimball