Cold War3

If Russia had succeeded in expanding during the Cold War, many countries would have become communist. This proved the United States loyalty to the countries of Western Europe. This was much like containment in the sense that it was being used in the assistance to stop the spread of Communism. The Containment Policy has been a success so far, as history will prove, in containing Communist expansion. The Cold War would have become a “hot war” real quick if they forced the issue of containment. The biggest policy that the United States fights Communism with, is containment. He proposed giving assistance from the United States to all European countries because the ministers of the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union could not agree on a German peace treaty. In the March of 1947, Harry Truman declared in the Truman Doctrine, that the United States would help any free nation resist a Communist attack. discovered Russia’s plan of expanding, they began to increase their military weapons. Many events gave the Cold War more fuel to be strung out through a longer period of time. It was a non-aggressive way to fight Communism. Some believed that his new theory would not force Russia to “soften their stance.