The Fundamental Idea of the Containment Doctrine, Embraced by President

question 57

Multiple Choice

The fundamental idea of the containment doctrine, embraced by President Truman, was

• A) the Soviet Union should be gradually forced to give up its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.
• B) the Soviet Union should be prevented from trading with nations in Africa and Asia.
• C) the West and the Soviet Union should seek to contain the spread of nuclear weapons.
• D) Soviet communist expansion in regions of the world should be blocked by firm political, economic, military, and diplomatic defense of free peoples and nations by America.
• E) military competition between the West and the Soviets should be replaced by economic competition.

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