Containment is a military strategy to stop the “expansion” of the enemy. It is best known for the attempt to stop communism. Within the containment came the Marshall Plan. This was an American idea to aid Western Europe. Eventually America gave around 12 billion dollars in aid for their economic stability after World War II
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The Cold War began not too long after World War II ended in 1945‚ was the continuing state of conflict‚ tension and competition that existed specifically between the United States and the Soviet Union(USSR) and those countries’ respective allies from 1945 (end of World War II) to 1989 (fall of Berlin Wall). Throughout this period‚ the most powerful countries in the world were starting to became enemies. But instead of fighting with guns and bullets they fought with games and competition like the
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"We are 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this lag in ten years. Either we do it‚ or they crush us!" Josef Stalin 1931‚ this quote sums up Stalin’s desire to modernize the Soviet Union. Stalin attempt to modernize the Soviet Union through a series of five year plans had various outcomes on the people‚ economy and politics in the country. The results of Stalin’s policies where mixed economically they where great‚ but politically and socially they had major flaws. Stalin
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Question1 Containment was the foreign policy put forth by the United States to challenge Russia during the Cold War (Kennan and Containment‚ n.d.). This Policy was based on a letter written by George Kennan called the X Article (Jones‚ 2008). The letter called for the United States to contain communism from any further expansion. Under President Truman‚ this became policy and would continue for many years and Presidents after him. Since the letter did not define the terms on how to contain communism
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reminiscents are still very active. The attempt to spread communism worldwide was an attempt made during the cold war; Joseph Stalin made that call‚ America answered. The policy of containment is the reason that communism did not spread and Democracy and Capitalism are still high functioning government systems. Containment is the action of keeping something harmful under control or in check. This is what went on during the Wold War‚ keeping Communism within limits. The Cold War was essentially democracy
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other nations‚ America centered its foreign policy on the "containment" of communism‚ both at home and abroad. Although formulation of the Truman Doctrine‚ Marshall Plan‚ and the Berlin Airlift suggested that the United States had a particular concern with the spread of communism in Europe‚ America’s policy of containment extended to Asia as well. Indeed‚ Asia proved to be the site of the first major battle waged in the name of containment: the Korean War. In 1950 the Korea Peninsula was divided
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champions of cost containment and conscious consumers of resources in order to maximize their usage. (Ellis‚ 2010) As a staff nurse it is impossible to control all the elements that impact health care costs but it is important to understand the basic tenants of costs and ways in which you as a health care provider are able to save and not waste valuable resources‚ but still provide high standards of quality nursing care. In order for the nurse to be an advocate for costs containment he/she should know
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Containment theory and the idea of pushes and pulls can be attributed to the deviant behaviour of sharing needles‚ doing drugs‚ and engaging in unprotected sex‚ because the inmates are faced with constant pushes and pulls throughout their stay in prison. A lot of prisoners come into jail with substance abuse problem (Jurgens‚ Nowak‚ & Day‚ 2011)‚ similarly some do not‚ and only once inside prison do they engage in behaviour that could create a risk to contract HIV (Chu‚ Peddle‚ & Canadian HIV-AIDS
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by providing different kind of support (including to replace the obsolete weapons of USA). Therefore with the help of the UN‚ USA had accomplished its very first aim even faster. Thus the war can be ended earlier. Furthermore‚ with the help of the USSR and China‚ the North Korean was able to defend the USA and the UN troops to reach a stalemate situation. Therefore continuing the war would only cause the loss of mass of civilian and soldiers. The war already caused the death of 5000‚000 South Korean
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the US and the Soviet Union. These conflicts were both internal and external that could have been prevented. They include the creation and use of the atomic bomb‚ US and Soviet Union world supremacy‚ and the creation of the Truman Doctrine and Containment. The US was the first country to develop an atomic bomb. This bomb was created in case any country attacked the US or another war took place and would be used only if necessary as a military weapon. It was proposed by the scientists to be tested
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