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Containment. Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. The name was loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire, which was containment of the Soviet Union in the interwar period .
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Learn about containment, the U.S. strategy to limit Soviet influence in the Cold War period. Find out the origins, implementation, and examples of the Truman and Eisenhower doctrines.
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Containment definition: the act or condition of containing. . See examples of CONTAINMENT used in a sentence.
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Learn the meaning of containment as a noun in formal contexts, such as keeping something under control or limiting another country's power. See pictures, pronunciation, usage notes and synonyms.
