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penguins · **on:** Sep 3, 2018

The Truman Doctrine, which defined U.S. strategy vis--vis the Soviet Union during the Cold War, stated that

a. if one state fell to communism, its neighbors would also fall in a chain reaction.
b. the United States would resist any Soviet expansion into the Western Hemisphere.
c. the United States would support its allies against communist expansion.
d. any Soviet assault against western Europe would be treated identically as an assault against the United States.
e. the U.S. official foreign policy would return to one of isolationism from European affairs.

Question 2

Which of the following was responsible for the origins of the U.S. strategy of containment?

a. Gerald Ford
b. John Foster Dulles
c. Woodrow Wilson
d. George Kennan
e. Franklin D. Roosevelt