State Department Official George Kennan

question 37

Multiple Choice

State Department official George Kennan:

• A) predicted that the wartime alliance between the United States and the Soviets would continue
• B) said the United States should abandon Europe and focus on the defense of the Western Hemisphere
• C) said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies
• D) urged the use of military force to liberate Eastern Europe
• E) said the United States should be willing to bomb the Russians

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